Tue 21 December 2021: COVID-19 has claimed the lives of over 3.3 million people this year, more than HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis combined in 2020, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general. The novel coronavirus continues to claim around 50,000 lives every week, according to WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus, but he told journalists that […]
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Mon 20 December 2021: Actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan left the Enforcement Directorate’s Delhi offices Monday night after being questioned for over five hours in connection with alleged forex violations related to the ‘Panama Papers’. It is unclear if the actor has been summoned for more questioning at a later date. The probe agency recorded her […]
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Mon 20 December 2021: On Sunday, Israel’s Health Ministry reported over 1,000 new coronavirus cases per day, as the government approved the ministry’s recommendation to classify the United States, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Morocco, Portugal, Canada, Switzerland, and Turkey as “red” states and impose a travel ban on them. This is the first time in […]
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Mon 20 December 2021: With the Christmas and New Year holidays approaching, the Rwandan government has placed restrictions on unvaccinated people in the country, prohibiting them from entering indoor restaurants, worship places, public transportation, and bars beginning December 20 in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus and encourage vaccine skeptics to get their shots. […]
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Mon 20 December 2021: Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis, has declared domestic violence ‘almost satanic’ in some of the strongest language he has used to condemn such actions, the Daily Mail of UK reported. These remarks were made by Pope Francis during a program broadcast on Italy’s TG5 network on Sunday night. The Pope condemned men’s […]
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Mon 20 December 2021: New Zealand authorities on Monday said they had linked a 26-year-old man’s death to Pfizer Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine after the person suffered myocarditis, a rare inflammation of the heart muscle, after taking his first dose. The death is New Zealand’s second linked to a known but rare side effect from the […]
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Mon 20 December 2021: President Cyril Ramaphosa has returned to duty after ending a week of self-isolation following his positive test for COVID-19 on 12 December 2021. According to Minister in the Presidency, Mondli Gungubele, the President will chair the final Cabinet meeting for 2021 on Wednesday. The President has extended his gratitude to all South […]
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Mon 20 December 2021: During a lockdown last year, a photograph of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and more than a dozen other people drinking wine in the garden of his Downing Street residence did not show a party, according to his deputy. Johnson is pictured with his wife Carrie, who appears to be holding […]
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Mon 20 December 2021: Top US pandemic adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned on Sunday that the omicron variant of the coronavirus, which is “raging around the world,” will put severe strain on hospital systems in the coming weeks. Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that there is no […]
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Mon 20 December 2021: Foreign ministers who attended the latest meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) agreed to establish a humanitarian trust fund to address the growing economic crisis in Afghanistan following the Taliban administration’s takeover after the United States’ withdrawal. The fund will be set up under the Islamic Development Bank to […]
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