Sat 11 December 2021: After a tornado struck Kentucky, at least 50 people were killed. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear revealed the facts on Saturday. The tornado particularly hit Graves County in the state late Friday. The governor added that two tractor-trailers filled with drinking water were sent to the town of Mayfield in the county, […]
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Sat 11 December 2021: US inflation continues to gallop ahead, as supply chains snarls and shortages keep driving prices higher. Break out the shoulder pads and leg warmers because Americans are in the grips of a 1980s-style inflation flashback. Consumer prices in the United States US CONSUMER PRICE INFLATION ROCKETS AT FASTEST PACE SINCE 1982rocketed […]
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Sat 11 December 2021: Amid minarets of mosques and an oil field in the desert, the largest Catholic church on the Arabian Peninsula opened its doors in Bahrain on Thursday. The huge Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia, with a capacity of 2,300, will serve the small Catholic community of the Gulf country, in which […]
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Sat 11 December 2021: The United Nations’ human rights office is finalizing its assessment of the situation in China’s Xinjiang region, where Uyghurs are alleged to have been unlawfully detained, mistreated and forced to work, a spokesperson said on Friday. Rupert Colville said the office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet hoped […]
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Sat 11 December 2021: According to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), booster COVID-19 vaccination provides an estimated 70% to 75% protection against mild illness from the new Omicron variant, the first finding from actual studies. Is quoted. The findings, released Friday, are some of the earliest data on protection against Omicron outside of laboratory […]
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Fri 10 December 2021: Ruling, which overturns an earlier decision, means Assange may be closer to extradition from a British prison to the US. The United States government has won an appeal at Britain’s High Court over the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Friday’s ruling, which overturns an earlier decision, means 50-year-old Assange may […]
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Fri 10 December 2021: After a video of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Christmas party during last year’s lockdown went viral, the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom lost its poll lead. A YouGov poll for The Times newspaper showed Johnson’s Conservatives had lost their lead, dropping 3 percentage points from Dec. 2 to 33 per […]
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Fri 10 December 2021: France has declined to join the diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing, calling such a step “insignificant.” French President Emanuel Macron stated that the boycott, led by the United States and other Western nations, is merely a “symbolic step” that will have no significant impact. Apart from the […]
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Fri 10 December 2021: Some 3,000 Turkish police officers will help secure the 2022 FIFA World Cup scheduled to take place next year in Qatar, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said yesterday. Soylu made the remarks on the sidelines of the closing meeting of the Project to Strengthen Civilian Oversight on the Internal Security Sector held […]
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Fri 10 December 2021: The Omicron variant has thrown the spotlight on the COVID-19 vaccine shortfall in Africa, with the continent remaining the worst hit by inequitable access to safe and effective vaccines. Poorer countries continue to scramble to get their hands on the lifesaving jabs, with less than 10% of Africa’s 54 nations projected […]
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