Fri 18 February 2022: The World Health Organization has reduced the recommended quarantine period for people who have been exposed to the coronavirus under the new guidelines. People who test negative now have seven days to get out of quarantine. Previously, the period of time was 14 days. In cases where testing to shorten quarantine […]
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Fri 18 February 2022: Anti-Asian hate crimes are on the rise in Washington, D.C., as Asian communities continue to be blamed for the COVID-19 pandemic, news portal Axios reported on Wednesday. In 2021, there were a total of 91 hate crime incidents involving ethnicity/national origin or race, and 23 of them targeted Asians, the report […]
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Fri 18 February 2022: Under the new guidance, UK schools are being asked to teach sensitive issues in a non-biased way. The aim is to help teachers cover complex topics, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As per Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi, no subject should be off-limits. A warning has also been given against teachers expressing their […]
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Fri 18 February 2022: A court in India has sentenced 38 people to death and sentenced 11 others to life in prison in connection with a series of bomb blasts in the western city of Ahmedabad in 2008. The court convicted 49 people on February 8 for the coordinated attacks that killed 56 people and […]
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Fri 18 February 2022: The world has become “better prepared” to deal with future variants of the coronavirus, the CEO and co-founder of German vaccine-maker BioNTech said, as the company works on an Omicron-specific shot. “We will have to get used to the fact that we will have to live with the virus for the […]
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Fri 18 February 2022: Former US President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in a New York civil probe into his business practices, according to a New York state judge. Judge Arthur Engoron on Thursday ordered Trump and his two eldest children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr, to comply with subpoenas issued in December […]
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Thu 17 February 2022: Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp and philanthropist, visited Pakistan on Thursday, meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan to discuss polio eradication in one of the world’s last two endemic countries. “This is the final, and hardest, phase of the eradication effort, but by keeping up the momentum and staying vigilant, […]
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Thu 17 February 2022: The Australian government has stated that it intends to add the Palestinian movement Hamas as a whole to its list of outlawed “terrorist” groups. In response, Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem told Al Jazeera the movement strongly condemned Australia’s decision on Thursday, saying the move pointed to clear bias towards Israel. He […]
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Thu 17 February 2022: Boris Johnson has claimed the attack on a nursery in eastern Ukraine was a “false flag operation designed to discredit the Ukrainians”. He added: “We fear very much that that is a thing we will see more of over the next few days”. Speaking on a visit to RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire on […]
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Thu 17 February 2022: The Ukrainian military on Thursday accused Russian separatists of shelling the southeastern Donbas region on Thursday, hitting a kindergarten. “Despite the fact that our positions were fired on with prohibited weapons, including 122 mm artillery, Ukrainian troops did not open fire in response,” a press officer of the Ukrainian Joint Forces […]
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