COVID-19, Cases Africa The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the African continent has reached 2,597,090 as of Friday afternoon, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The continental disease control and prevention agency said in a statement that the death toll related to the pandemic stood at 61,432 while a … Read more
France has confirmed the first case in the country of the more contagious coronavirus variant recently identified in the UK, according to the BBC. The French health ministry said the person was a French national in the central town of Tours who had arrived from London on 19 December. It was confirmed after the man … Read more
Israel, Syria Syrian air defenses responded to an Israeli missile attack that targeted the western Masyaf area in Hama Governorate after midnight Thursday. Syrian state TV broadcast images of the air defenses intercepting Israeli missiles in the sky over Masyaf. The Syrian army said that the Israeli missile attack was launched from the Libyan capital … Read more
Arya Rajendran The CPI (M) has chosen 21-year-old Arya Rajendran as its mayor candidate after the party’s district committee and state committee sanctioned her candidature. She is a first-time councillor from Mudavanmugal division of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation. Arya Rajendran is a BSc Mathematics student and is the party’s Chala area committee member. Read Also: Yuletide: PDP … Read more
Pope Francis Pope Francis in his message on Friday prayed for an end to suffering in the world and emphasized on unity among the people. The Pope on Christmas day, offered the faithful the traditional papal blessing “Urbi et Orbi’’ (to the city and to the world). “We are all in the same boat,’’ the … Read more
Burundian Journalists Four Burundian journalists of the independent daily Iwacu (Chez nous) have been granted presidential pardon after 430 days in detention for “undermining state security,” the editorial staff of the newspaper said on Friday. Agnès Ndirubusa, Christine Kamikazi, Egide Harerimana and Térence Mpozenzi were arrested on 22 October, 2019, while they were reporting on … Read more
The killing of an unarmed African-American man by police in the US city of Columbus, Ohio sparked a fresh wave of outrage this week against racial injustice and police brutality in the country. Andre Maurice Hill, 47, was in the garage of a house on Monday night when he was shot several times by a … Read more
After months of protracted negotiation and impasse, the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU) have finally agree on post-brexit trade deal. The trade agreement was reached on Thursday, seven days before the historic exit of the UK from one of the world’s most virile and largest trading blocs. The UK quit its full membership … Read more
A black Indiana physician by the name Susan Moore has reportedly died from COVID-19 complications, after the medical practitioner was subjected to discriminatory treatment at the medical facility where she was being managed for the novel coronavirus. Susan, who ultimately died as a result of unprofessional medical conduct, prior to her death had complained that … Read more
Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, on Wednesday, said his country will extend the suspension of commercial and passenger flights from the UK until January 6 in light of a new fast-spreading coronavirus strain sweeping Britain. “Today, I can announce that we will extend this temporary suspension of passenger flights from the UK to Canada … Read more
Trump pardons Manafort was convicted in 2018 in an investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US election. Trump has previously commuted the prison sentence of Stone, who was convicted of lying to Congress. They are among 29 people to benefit from Mr Trump’s latest clemency spree before he leaves office next month. Twenty-six … Read more
The United Kingdom has detected two cases of another new variant of COVID-19, health secretary Matt Hancock announced. The cases in London and north west England are contacts of people who travelled to South Africa, where the variant was discovered. Travel restrictions with South Africa have been imposed. Anyone who has travelled there in the … Read more
Mexico will begin Covid-19 immunizations on Thursday, a day after the country receives its first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, Undersecretary of Health Hugo Lopez-Gatell said. “Tomorrow (Wednesday) the first consignment of the Pfizer vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 arrives,” he said Tuesday on Twitter. “There will be a press opportunity and then the vaccine will be safeguarded … Read more
Belgium recorded four cases of the new strain of coronavirus first discovered in England at the start of December, health officials have said. The four cases were discovered earlier this month in the northern Flemish regions that border the Netherlands, spokesman for Belgium’s health minister, Jan Eyckmans said. A spokesman for the national virus crisis … Read more
Authorities in the state of Delaware in the United States say they have apprehended a man who falsified electoral documents during the last election presidential election. The culprit, Bruce Bartman, a Republican, was arrested for allegedly using his dead mother’s ballot to vote for President Donald Trump, authorities said in a statement. According to prosecutors, … Read more
The European Commission on Tuesday urged EU nations to lift travel bans imposed on Britain to halt the spread of a coronavirus variant that has swept the UK and spurred global panic just as vaccines are being rolled out. The new strain of the virus, which has also been detected in small numbers elsewhere, appears … Read more
Donald Trump, Pardon A United Nations human rights expert, Nils Melzer, has urged U.S. President Donald Trump to pardon Julian Assange, Founder of Whistleblower site, Wikileaks. Assenge, an Australian National, had been in a maximum security prison in London since his arrest in April, 2019, for allegedly leaking classified U.S. military information. Melzer made the … Read more
Curfew, Tunisia The Tunisian government announced on Tuesday that the nationwide curfew in the country had been extended to Jan. 15, 2021 to curb the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). The Tunisian Minister of Health Faouzi Mehdi announced this at a news conference in Tunis. Read Also: Top Blockbuster Movies In History The curfew is … Read more
United States Congress, on Monday evening, voted to approve a far-reaching $900 billion COVID-19 relief package that promises to accelerate vaccine distribution. The stimulus package is also expected to deliver the much-needed aid to small businesses hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans who have lost their jobs during the economic upheaval and health care … Read more
The new coronavirus variant discovered in Britain with a higher transmission rate is not yet out of control and can be contained using existing measures, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. “We have had a much higher (contamination rate) at different points in this pandemic and we’ve got it under control,” WHO’s emergencies … Read more