Mon 20 December 2021: New Zealand authorities on Monday said they had linked a 26-year-old man’s death to Pfizer Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine after the person suffered myocarditis, a rare inflammation of the heart muscle, after taking his first dose. The death is New Zealand’s second linked to a known but rare side effect from the […]
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Mon 20 December 2021: Celebrity entrepreneur and Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk responded to the debate over paying more taxes by announcing on Sunday on Twitter that the billionaire will pay over $11 billion in taxes this year. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, had earlier said on Twitter that Musk should […]
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Mon 20 December 2021: During a lockdown last year, a photograph of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and more than a dozen other people drinking wine in the garden of his Downing Street residence did not show a party, according to his deputy. Johnson is pictured with his wife Carrie, who appears to be holding […]
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Mon 20 December 2021: Top US pandemic adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned on Sunday that the omicron variant of the coronavirus, which is “raging around the world,” will put severe strain on hospital systems in the coming weeks. Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that there is no […]
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Sun 19 December 2021: In the first quarter of 2022, the European Union will receive an additional 20 million doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, according to the European Commission. “In Q1 of 2022, BioNTech-Pfizer will deliver an additional 20 million vaccine doses (5 million in January, 5 million in February and 10 million in […]
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Sun 19 December 2021: According to the Interfax news agency, Facebook has paid a fine of USD 229,643 in Russia for content that Moscow deemed illegal. The threat of higher fines looms over the tech giant. A court case involving Meta and Alphabet, the parent companies of Facebook and Google, will be heard next week. […]
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Sun 19 December 2021: On Friday, a group of migrants from Cyprus refugee camps who are being resettled in Italy at Pope Francis’ expense assisted him in celebrating his 85th birthday. “You saved us,” an African boy told the pope during a meeting in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace a day after the 12 arrived from […]
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Sun 19 December 2021: Thousands of peaceful protesters demonstrated in central Brussels for the third time on Sunday against the Belgian government’s COVID-19 restrictions, which were imposed in response to a spike in infections and the emergence of the concerning omicron variant. Given how previous protests had sometimes devolved into violence, arrests, and injury, a […]
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Sun 19 December 2021: CNN is closing its offices in the United States for all non-essential employees due to an increase in Covid cases. In a memo, Network President Jeff Zucker wrote, “Given the recent, sudden surge in Covid cases around the country, and within our teams at CNN, Turner Sports & Warner Media Studios, […]
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Sun 19 December 2021: If UK media reports are to be believed, the British government seems to be looking to impose a short two-week circuit breaker lockdown. The measure may be taken after Christmas celebrations to keep a check on the spread of Omicron variant of Covid. The government seems to be in the […]
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