Fri 04 February 2022: The first US troops deployed to Europe to reinforce Washington’s NATO allies have arrived in Germany, the US military’s European Command says. “Soldiers from the 18th Airborne Corps arrived in Wiesbaden today,” a spokesperson for the command said in a statement, adding that they would establish a headquarters in Germany to support 1,700 […]
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Fri 04 February 2022: Andrew Forrest, an Australian billionaire and iron ore mogul, has announced that he will sue Facebook for defamation. He claims Meta’s platform violated anti-money laundering regulations and was being used to defraud Australians. The chairman of Fortescue Metals Group is Forrest, Australia’s richest man. He stated that he was initiating legal […]
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Fri 04 February 2022: The number of COVID-19 infections has reached a plateau, with the increase in infection rates driven by school-age children, Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla, announced on Friday. According to the Minister, the past 14 days have given a “confusing” picture and shown a slow drop in infections. “The picture has been that of […]
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Fri 04 February 2022: Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is still undergoing recovery process at the National Heart Institute here, according to a statement issued by Dr Mahathir’s Office. It said the former prime minister was allowed to return home last Feb 2, but required to return to IJN for physiotheraphy and further treatment. […]
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An American helicopter had a ‘mechanical failure’ and was subsequently destroyed by the US military after the raid, officials say. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fri 04 February 2022: The ISIL (ISIS) leader killed in a United States raid in Syria lived on the third floor of a compound above an “unwitting family” that was not associated with the […]
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Fri 04 February 2022: On Friday, Germany recorded almost 250,000 new coronavirus cases, the highest single-day increase since the pandemic began. In the last 24 hours, the country’s disease control organization, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), has documented 248,838 new COVID-19 infections and 170 coronavirus-related deaths. The country has seen a record number of daily […]
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Researchers at Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines are attempting to replicate Moderna’s vaccine.Credit: Afrigen Biologics. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fri 04 February 2022: South Africa’s Afrigen Biologics has used the publicly available sequence of Moderna’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine to make its own version of the shot, which could be tested in humans before the end of this year, Afrigen’s […]
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Fri 04 February 2022: Military government in Myanmar has filed an eleventh corruption accusation against deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the latest in a series of charges against the Nobel laureate, who faces a prison sentence of more than 150 years. The new case was announced on Thursday, as the military allegedly conducted further […]
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Fri 04 February 2022: Pentagon Spokesperson John Kirby has confirmed media reports that the US has intelligence accusing Russia of planning to fabricate a pretext to invade Ukraine. “We’ve discussed this idea of false flags by the Russians before; we made no secret of that. We do have information that the Russians are likely to […]
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Thu 03 February 2022: In retaliation for Berlin’s decision to ban Russian station RT DE, Russia shut down German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) in Moscow. Russia announced that DW’s accreditation would be revoked. Moscow said that the German station would no longer be broadcast in Russia and that it would be declared a “foreign agent,” […]
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