Mon 27 December 2021: Pope Francis bemoaned Italy’s severely dropping birth rate, saying it poses a threat to the country’s future. During his weekly address in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis said “The demographic winter is a real worry, at least here in Italy. It seems that a lot of people have lost […]
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Mon 27 December 2021: President Joe Biden has signed into law a $777.7bn US annual military budget – his first in office – weeks after Congress overwhelmingly passed the bill amid protests from progressives and anti-war groups who had advocated for cutting military spending. The White House announced that Biden signed the piece of legislation, […]
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Mon 27 December 2021: Iraq’s Federal Court on Monday dismissed a lawsuit contesting the results of the country’s parliamentary elections. The state news agency INA said the court had rejected the lawsuit filed by Shia groups, without giving any further details. The Federal Court is Iraq’s highest judicial authority and its rulings are final and […]
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Mon 27 December 2021: Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed sacked the country’s prime minister on Monday for alleged corruption and mismanagement of public lands. “The president decided to suspend prime minister Mohamed Hussein Roble and stop his powers since he was linked with corruption,” the office of the president said in a statement on Monday, […]
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Mon 27 December 2021: New York has reported an alarming increase in child hospitalizations as the White House struggles to control the spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus in the United States. New York State Department of Health has issued a warning regarding “an upward trend in pediatric hospitalizations associated with COVID-19”. “NYSDOH is […]
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Mon 27 December 2021: The biggest vaccination campaign in history is underway. More than 8.95 billion doses have been administered across 184 countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg. The latest rate was roughly 43.4 million doses a day. In the U.S., 500 million doses have been given so far. An average 1.26 million doses per day were administered over the last week. More than 8.95 billion doses have […]
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Mon 27 December 2021: Reports that at least 35 civilians have been killed and their bodies burned in eastern Myanmar have alarmed a high-ranking United Nations official, who has demanded that the government conduct a “thorough and transparent investigation.” After their vehicle was among several that were attacked and burned in the incident in Kaya […]
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Sun 26 December 2021: On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced a $300 million plan to double the number of Jewish Israeli settlers in the Golan Heights. Israel took control of this region from Syria more than 40 years ago. On Sunday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett conducted his monthly cabinet meeting in the Golan’s […]
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Sun 26 December 2021: According to Anthony Fauci, the chief US epidemiologist, a surge of infections released by the Omicron coronavirus variant could outweigh the benefits of a decrease in its severity, finally overwhelming hospitals. “Every day it goes up and up. The last weekly average was about 150,000 and it likely will go much […]
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Sun 26 December 2021: If Russia moves aggressively toward Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has warned that harsher sanctions will be imposed. In an interview published Saturday in Le Journal du Dimanche, the EU chief stated that “Any act of aggression against Ukraine will lead to sanctions and consequences. They have been […]
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