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French schools will close for at least three weeks as part of new national restrictions to fight rising Covid cases. President EMMANUEL MACRON said schools would move to remote learning from next week. Lockdown measures, introduced in some areas of France earlier this month, are also being extended to other districts. The country is facing […]
Brazil’s President JAIR BOLSONARO is facing the biggest crisis after the heads of the army, navy and air force all quit and the country recorded its highest daily Covid-19 death toll. The unprecedented resignation of the defence chiefs is being seen as a protest at attempts by President BOLSONARO to apply undue control over the […]
Russia has supplied Venezuela with COVID-19 doses of EPI-VAC-CORONA to be used as part of trials of the Russian coronavirus vaccine candidate. Russia said that more than one hundred and fifteen thousand EpiVacCorona doses had been deployed in its national inoculation programme, calling it one hundred per cent effective in producing antibodies, after some trial […]
Lawyers for Google and the United States government have argued over the number of documents the search giant should handover to the U.S. Justice Department in an antitrust lawsuit. The U.S. government had filed the suit against the search and advertising giant before Judge AMIT MEHTA of the District Court for the District of Columbia. […]
Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court have upheld the conviction of former Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Presiding judge, HOWARD MORRISON said the panel confirmed NTAGANDA’s 30-year jail sentence after the judges rejected the all former warlord’s grounds of appeal. NTAGANDA’S lawyers had sought to overturn his […]
China has passed several changes to Hong Kong’s electoral rules which will tighten its control over the city, state media has said. The aim of the reforms is to ensure that only “patriotic” figures can run for positions of power. The changes mean that prospective MPs will first be vetted for their loyalty to the […]
Prime Minister BORIS JOHNSON says the United Kingdom is “building up their own long-term UK manufacturing capabilities” for Covid vaccines. JOHNSON said Novavax is going to make a vaccine and GlaxoSmithKline will also finish and bottle vaccines both in the North East. The Prime Minister at a Downing Street briefing said they would provide between […]
India has announced plans to widen a coronavirus vaccination campaign to include more younger people. The Minister of Health, HARSH VARDHAN, revealed this as the country’s new infections rose by the most in more than five months. VARDHAN said everyone above the age of 45 would be eligible for vaccination from April 1st, adding that […]
German Chancellor ANGELA MERKEL has defended the EU’s decision to procure coronavirus vaccines jointly as the bloc struggles with delays in rollout. European Union leaders are holding virtual talks to discuss vaccine supplies and improving distribution across the 27 nations. Pressure is mounting upon them to deliver after other countries, like the United Kingdom, achieved […]
North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, says the US and Japan – the first such test since Joe Biden became US president. Pyongyang is banned from testing ballistic missiles, considered threatening weapons, under UN Security Council resolutions. Both Japan and South Korea have condemned the test. It comes just […]
