Tue 28 December 2021: According to a recent Opinium poll commissioned by The Guardian newspaper, the UK Labour Party has a seven-point lead over the current Conservative Party in vote intention, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s popularity continues to decline. According to the survey, which was conducted between December 15 and 22, 39 percent of […]
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Tue 28 December 2021: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will not vaccinate his 11-year-old daughter against COVID-19, he said on Monday, maintaining the firm anti-vaccine stance that has drawn criticism from public health experts and hit his poll numbers. The right-wing leader added that the nation’s health minister, Marcelo Queiroga, will divulge on January 5 the manner […]
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Tue 28 December 2021: British royalty is a right storm in an extravagantly adorned teacup these days, what with Megxit, the release of yet another movie as Diana, Princess of Wales, comes to the fore once more, and now, it seems we’re one scandal away from a maid shrieking “MURDER! Murder in the boudoir!” Scotland […]
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Tue 28 December 2021: The United States auto safety agency has stepped up its probe into engine fires that have plagued some Hyundai Motor Co and Kia Motors Corp vehicles for more than six years. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it had opened an “engineering analysis” covering about 3 million vehicles to […]
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Tue 28 December 2021: On Tuesday, Chinese internet users slammed Elon Musk after Beijing said its space station took evasive action to avoid colliding with two of his SpaceX satellites, a blow to the tycoon’s reputation in a country that has embraced his Tesla electric cars. According to a document submitted to the UN’s space […]
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Mon 27 December 2021: Pope Francis bemoaned Italy’s severely dropping birth rate, saying it poses a threat to the country’s future. During his weekly address in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis said “The demographic winter is a real worry, at least here in Italy. It seems that a lot of people have lost […]
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Mon 27 December 2021: President Joe Biden has signed into law a $777.7bn US annual military budget – his first in office – weeks after Congress overwhelmingly passed the bill amid protests from progressives and anti-war groups who had advocated for cutting military spending. The White House announced that Biden signed the piece of legislation, […]
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Mon 27 December 2021: A new report on the provision of domestic abuse services in the UK under COVID-19 has highlighted the need for more accessible services. The research highlighted how, during the pandemic, the domestic abuse sector in the UK pivoted rapidly to the remote delivery of services in order to meet increased and increasingly complex […]
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Mon 27 December 2021: New York has reported an alarming increase in child hospitalizations as the White House struggles to control the spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus in the United States. New York State Department of Health has issued a warning regarding “an upward trend in pediatric hospitalizations associated with COVID-19”. “NYSDOH is […]
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Sun 26 December 2021: As the country struggles to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, the economy, while expanding due to increased demand for goods and services, is still grappling with a labor shortage. The economy is rebounding from the effects of pandemic lockdowns, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, although a rising percentage of […]
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