Fri 21 January 2022: In a review of its 2021 enforcement actions, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta said on Thursday that it deactivated more than 130 accounts from the two platforms during the months of December for suspected coordinated inauthentic behavior. We removed eight Facebook accounts and 126 Instagram accounts from Iran that primarily […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: If Russia invades Ukraine, it risks being dragged into a “terrible quagmire,” British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss warned on Friday, raising the prospect of a long, bloody, and resource-draining conflict for Moscow. Mean while the United Kingdom has sent a group of around 30 elite troops to Ukraine to train the […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: On Thursday, a UN-backed organization announced that it had reached agreements with more than two dozen generic drug manufacturers to produce versions of Merck’s COVID-19 pill for distribution to 105 developing countries. According to the Medicines Patent Pool, the agreements will allow drug companies to manufacture both the raw ingredients and […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement that militants from the self-styled “Islamic State” group attacked a Kurdish-run jail in Syria’s al-Hasaka in an attempt to free jihadists linked to the group. While the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in the United Kingdom, reported that “a number […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: Africa’s top public health bodies have called for donated COVID-19 vaccines to come with a shelf life of three to six months so countries could plan their rollouts and avoid a situation where doses expire. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said 2.8 million […]
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Thu 20 January 2022: Even after a surge in Omicron cases, the World Health Organisation has urged nations to lift travel bans and mandatory vaccination for entry into countries. “The failure of travel restrictions introduced after the detection and reporting of Omicron variant to limit the international spread of Omicron demonstrates the ineffectiveness of such […]
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Thu 20 January 2022: The legal company that conducted a major investigation concluded on Thursday that former Pope Benedict XVI failed to stop four pastors accused of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church in Munich. According to lawyer Martin Pusch of Westpfahl Spilker Wastl, who was charged by the church to conduct the investigation, […]
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Thu 20 January 2022: If Russia invade Ukraine, the EU Commission chief warned of “massive economic and financial sanctions.” Ursula von der Leyen highlighted last week’s diplomatic contacts between Russia and Western countries on European security arrangements while speaking via video link at the World Economic Forum. She stressed that the bloc wants dialogue with […]
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Thu 20 January 2022: US President Joe Biden has nominated the first Muslim-American woman to be a judge on a federal court in the United States, the White House said on Wednesday, as it announced a list of diverse judicial nominees. If confirmed by the US Senate, Nusrat Jahan Choudhury, a civil rights lawyer of Bangladeshi […]
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Thu 20 January 2022: Novak Djokovic, the current world number one tennis player, is also a co-founder and main shareholder of a biotech company developing a coronavirus (COVID-19) cure, according to the CEO of the Danish company (January 19). Ivan Loncarevic, the CEO of QuantBioRes, said that the tennis player purchased an 80 percent ownership […]
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