Sat 16 April 2022: As the number of cases in Shanghai increases, more Chinese cities are imposing covid curbs. On Saturday, Shanghai reported a record number of symptomatic COVID-19 cases, while other areas around China imposed restrictions as the country maintained its “dynamic clearance” strategy aimed at eliminating the highly transmissible Omicron COVID-19 strain. On […]
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Sat 16 April 2022: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “gave a positive assessment” of joint work in the OPEC+ format during a phone call, the Kremlin said in a statement on Saturday. They also discussed the situation in Ukraine and Yemen, the Kremlin said. “They touched upon some pressing […]
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Sat 16 April 2022: Russia barred UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other top British officials from entering the country on Saturday (April 16). UK Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, former Prime Minister Theresa May, and Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon are among them. It comes after […]
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Sat 16 April 2022: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization Thursday for the first ever COVID-19 diagnostic test using breath samples. Through the InspectIR COVID-19 Breathalyzer, the test “can be performed in environments where the patient specimen is both collected and analyzed, such as doctor’s offices, hospitals and mobile testing […]
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The Home secretary, Priti Patel with Rwandan foreign minister Vincent Biruta during the signing ceremony of the £120m migration and economic development partnership in Kigali, Rwanda. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sat 16 April 2022: The British government’s new immigration strategy that would see asylum seekers and refugees being sent to Rwanda could begin in a matter of weeks, […]
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Sat 16 April 2022: The United States said on Friday that it was “deeply concerned” after violence in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound. The clashes at the mosque compound took place on the heels of three weeks of deadly violence in Israel and West Bank. Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police clashed at Al-Aqsa mosque on April […]
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Sat April 2022: Russia has lodged a formal complaint with the US over its military aid to Ukraine, warning of “unpredictable consequences” if sophisticated weapon supplies go, according to US media. According to the Washington Post, Moscow warned the US and NATO against transferring the “most sensitive” weapons to Kyiv for use in the confrontation […]
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Fri 15 April 2022: The US now believes the sunken Russian missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, was hit by two Ukrainian missiles, according to a senior Pentagon official. “We assess that they hit it with two Neptunes,” the official said, referring to Ukrainian anti-ship cruise missiles. He said the strikes were […]
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Fri 15 April 2022: About 60,000 Palestinians performed the second Friday prayers of Ramadan at Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied city of Jerusalem. Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib, director general of the Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem, told Anadolu Agency that the number, though big, is still less than the usual number at this time of the […]
Continue ReadingFri 15 April 2022: Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that Russia wanted to expand the use of the rouble for energy exports, but that it was too early to talk of deadlines and details. “The president has set a methodical and step-by-step approach to expanding the use of national currencies”, Peskov told reporters […]
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