Sat 05 February 2022: The World Health Organization (WHO) chief met with China’s premier to discuss COVID-19, particularly the stalling inquiry into the pandemic’s origins. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Li Keqiang met on Saturday as the origin of the coronavirus strained relations between China and the West. The WHO director-general, who is in Beijing for […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra has denounced an African Union decision to grant Israel an observer status as a “double mistake”. “We were not the ones who initiated the granting of observer status to anyone,” Lamamra said in an interview with Radio France International and France 24 satellite channel in the […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and first lady Emine Erdoğan tested COVID-19 positive with mild symptoms, the president’s official personal Twitter account announced Saturday. Erdoğan was due to attend an inauguration ceremony in northern Turkey’s Zonguldak on Saturday, but instead, he attended it via videoconference earlier in the day. During his address […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: On Saturday, the Saudi-led coalition launched a new military operation in Yemen against Houthi militants. “Legitimate military targets” in the capital Sanaa and other provinces are the focus of the operation, a coalition statement cited by the Saudi state news agency SPA said. “The military operation comes in response to the […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: The World Health Organization (WHO) urged for the availability of cancer care in high- and low-income countries to be addressed on World Cancer Day on Friday. According to the WHO, cancer is one of the main causes of mortality worldwide, with a projected 20 million people diagnosed and 10 million people […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: The Biden administration has restored a sanctions waiver to Iran, a senior State Department official said on Friday, as indirect talks between the United States and Iran on returning to the 2015 nuclear agreement entered the final stretch. The waiver, which was rescinded by the Trump administration in May 2020, had […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: Another Israeli-based spyware firm used vulnerability in Apple’s security to hack into iPhones, Reuters reports. QuaDream, according to five people familiar with the issue, is a smaller and lower profile Israeli firm that develops Smartphone hacking tools intended for government clients. Citing sources and documents, Haaretz said that the company uses a front in Cyprus […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: According to a study released Friday by the United Nations, providing mercenaries in Libya’s internal conflict has become the major source of cash for armed groups from Sudan’s own war-torn Darfur region. The guns-for-hire deals were enabled by the United Arab Emirates, according to a report written by UN experts in […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: It’s official, Starting this Saturday, Austrians over the age of 18 must get vaccinated against Covid-19 or face a large fine, a first in the European Union. The new law, which was approved by Parliament on January 20, was signed into law by President Alexander Van der Bellen on Friday, capping […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: The US COVID-19 death toll topped 900,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, less than two months after the country surpassed 800,000 fatalities. Friday’s somber milestone comes 13 months into a US vaccinations campaign hampered by disinformation and political wrangling, despite the fact that the vaccines have proven to be […]
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