Sat 18 December 2021: UK’s FTSE 100 slipped on Friday and was on course for a weekly loss, as concerns surrounding the fast-spreading Omicron variant and inflationary risks outweighed strong retail sales data. The commodity-heavy FTSE 100 index was down 0.1%, with oil majors Royal Dutch Shell and BP falling about 1% each, tracking weakness in crude prices as […]
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Sat 18 December 2021: Discussions at the United Nations on autonomous weapons ended without reaching an agreement to launch negotiations on an international treaty to regulate their use on Friday. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and several nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) had been pushing for negotiators to begin work on an international treaty that would […]
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Sat 18 December 2021: Muslims living in Belgium will appeal the country’s prohibition of halal animal slaughtering by taking the case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). “The Belgian Muslim Executive and the Coordination Council of Islamic Institutions of Belgium will challenge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg the ban […]
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Sat 18 December 2021: French authorities have urged people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 before the holiday festivities as infections surge and the government tries to avoid another lockdown. “The fifth wave is here and it is here in full force,” Prime Minister Jean Castex told a news conference on Friday, likening the spread of […]
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Fri 17 December 2021: As schools across the country sent out alerts to parents on Friday, the FBI said it was investigating a school shooting threat on the popular social media platform TikTok. The “school shooting challenge” video, which circulated on TikTok and claimed there would be multiple school gun attacks and bombings across the […]
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Fri 17 December 2021: Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, accepted “personal responsibility” for the ruling Conservative Party’s stunning defeat in the North Shropshire parliamentary by-election on Thursday, which saw the party lose a traditional stronghold in central England.n as a lawmaker to lobby for two firms that paid him more than […]
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Fri 17 December 2021: On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin wished Pope Francis a happy 85th birthday, telling him that they could work together to protect Christians. The remarks follow the pope’s announcement earlier this month that he was ready to travel to Moscow to meet with Patriarch Kirill, Russia’s Orthodox Church’s head. “It is […]
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Fri 17 December 2021: At auction on Wednesday, an NFT memorializing Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales’s first edit on the online reference resource 20 years ago, as well as the computer he used to program the platform, sold for nearly $1 million. Christie’s sold the Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), which are one-of-a-kind digital objects that confer ownership […]
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Fri 17 December 2021: Supercentenarian Marcel Meys, who was 112 years old and believed to be the oldest person in France, died after contracting COVID-19, local media reported. Meys died on Dec. 15 at a hospital in Vienne, a commune in the Rhone Alpes Auvergne region in southeastern France. He was admitted to the hospital […]
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Fri 17 December 2021: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued advice on the emergency use of Pfizer’s Covid-19 pill called Paxlovid. The European Union (EU) drug regulator on Thursday said the medicine, which is not yet authorized in the EU, can be used to treat adults with Covid-19 who do not require supplemental oxygen […]
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