Fri 17 December 2021: Following weeks of scandal and rising COVID-19 infections, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has suffered a stunning defeat in a parliamentary by-election that is being viewed as a referendum on his government. Helen Morgan, a centrist who represents England’s third largest party in North Shropshire, , overturned a Conservative […]
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Fri 17 December 2021: A Canadian molecular biologist on Wednesday told cross-party members of Parliament (MPs) on the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee that a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan region of China is now the “more likely” origin of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Dr Alina Chan, specialising in gene therapy and […]
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Thu 16 December 2021: According to the presidency, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and SpaceX founder Elon Musk had a video call on Thursday to discuss Turkey’s national space program. The two discussed plans to launch Turksat 5B, Turkey’s next communications satellite. In January, SpaceX launched the Turksat 5A satellite into orbit with its Falcon […]
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Thu 16 December 2021: According to the interior ministry, there are 110,000 fake health passes in circulation in France, and hundreds of investigations have been launched against the creators and users of the forged documents. Access to public transportation, restaurants, and cultural events requires a health pass that shows proof of vaccination, Covid recovery, or […]
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Thu 16 December 2021: Wayne Maley, a New Zealand road worker, was one of ten people honored on Thursday for saving lives during a deadly attack on two mosques in Christchurch in 2019. On March 15, that year, a gunman opened fire at two mosques in the city, killing 51 people. “The courage demonstrated by […]
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Thu 16 December 2021: The “extremely rapid” rise in Omicron COVID cases in the UK has prompted a ban on British tourists visiting France. France has banned travel to and from the United Kingdom without “compelling reasons” as of Saturday morning. Those reasons do not include travel for tourism and business, Paris said. UK Transport […]
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Thu 16 December 2021: The World Bank’s fund to assist the world’s poorest countries received a $93 billion injection of cash on Wednesday to help scale up funding for pandemic recovery and other projects. The International Development Association (IDA), located in Washington, said it was the largest ever replenishment for the development lender, which gives […]
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Thu 16 December 2021: A NASA spacecraft has “touched” the sun for the first time, dropping through the corona, a previously unknown region of the solar atmosphere. On Tuesday, scientists announced the findings at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The Parker Solar Probe soared into the corona during its seventh close encounter with […]
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Thu 16 December 2021: According to a new study, the novel omicron COVID-19 variation multiplies 70 times faster in human airways than the delta variant. “The researchers found that Omicron SARS-CoV-2 infects and multiplies 70 times faster than the Delta variant and original SARS-CoV-2 in human bronchus, which may explain why Omicron may transmit faster […]
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Wed 15 December 2021: Hundreds of dinosaur footprints have been discovered in Poland, some of which are so well preserved that even the scaly skin can be seen, providing insight into a complex ecology 200 million years ago, according to geologists. The fossilised tracks and bones were discovered in an opencast clay mine in Borkowice, […]
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