Fri 11 February 2022: The French Health Ministry said on Friday that wearing masks indoors in venues that require a vaccine permit would be discontinued on February 28. Masks will still be required on public transportation and in places that do not require a vaccine pass. “Wearing a mask indoors will remain on transport and […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: Mount Etna, Europe’s largest and most active volcano, erupted for the first time this year overnight into Friday, sending ash and clouds into the sky in a gigantic column as high as five miles. Italy’s National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology has confirmed that an eruption took place on Thursday night. […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: World Health Organisation (WHO) Africa Regional director, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, says the continent is on course to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. She was speaking as the continent is about to observe two years since the first case of COVID-19 was identified on 14 February. Since then, at least 11 million cases […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: In the United States, inflation has recently accelerated. It has now risen to its greatest level in 40 years. This outcome has given American consumers uneasy nights because it has wiped out pay raises and reinforced the Federal Reserve’s decisions to begin raising borrowing rates across the economy. According to the […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: The World Health Organization’s chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan, said on Friday that the world was not yet at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as there would be more coronavirus variants. “We have seen the virus evolve, mutate … so we know there will be more variants, more variants of concern, […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: According to the Saudi Press Agency, the Arab Coalition has advised inhabitants of Sanaa to evacuate certain “civilian sites” within the next 72 hours and has warned to strike the Houthi militia in the area. “Crucial points will be bombed in Sanaa that the Houthis use to launch marches,” the Arab Coalition in a statement carried by SPA. It comes after the Houthi militia, supported by Iran, launched a drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abha International Airport on Thursday, injuring 12 people. The drone was […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: President Joe Biden has urged United States citizens in Ukraine to leave the country immediately, citing the threat of Russian invasion amid the ongoing crisis in Eastern Europe. “American citizens should leave now,” Biden said in a pre-taped interview with NBC News that was released on Thursday, reiterating a message from […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa says government will immediately fill critical vacancies and address positions affected by suspensions in the State Security Agency and Crime Intelligence. This follows the release of the report of the expert panel on the civil unrest which occurred in July 2021, which gripped parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. […]
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Thu 10 February 2022: As tensions over the Ukraine situation continue to rise, a new report claims that Kyiv is collecting Bitcoin donations to fund a possible war against Russia. According to Elliptic, a blockchain analytics business, donations worth thousands of dollars have poured into non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and volunteer groups, growing by more than […]
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[Russian Foreign Ministry/Twitter] _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thu 10 February 2022: The foreign minister of the United Kingdom was greeted with a cold reception in Moscow on Thursday, as London’s efforts to intervene in the Ukraine issue hit a snag. During Liz Truss’ visit to Moscow, she had a tense exchange of ideas with her Russian counterpart, Sergey […]
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