The UK Health Security Agency said that two doses of vaccines provide “much lower levels” of protection against symptomatic infection compared to the currently dominant Delta variant of Covid-19. A third booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine provides 70-75 per cent protection against symptomatic infection from the Omicron variant, the UK […]
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WASHINGTON: A US federal appeals court on Thursday rejected former president Donald Trump’s bid to prevent the release of White House records relating to the January 6 attack on the Capitol. The appeals court agreed with a lower court ruling that President Joe Biden could waive executive privilege on the […]
Neeli Bendapudi is the first woman and person of colour to be named as the president of America’s prestigious Pennsylvania State University, according to the institution. Indian-origin professor Neeli Bendapudi has created history as the first woman and person of colour to be named as the president of America’s prestigious […]
The new law “will allow all children with a papa and mama, with two papas or with two mamas to have the same rights and the same protection,” Chile President Piera said. A Chilean law permitting same-sex couples to marry and adopt was signed into law Thursday by President Sebastin […]
PARIS: Gunshots were fired overnight at police in the French Caribbean island of Martinique for the second night running, French media reported today, in a sign that unrest triggered by Covid-19 curbs that has rocked the nearby island of Guadeloupe seems to be spreading there. BFM TV, quoting police forces, […]
LONDON: British royal Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, said today she had received a first dose of Covid-19 vaccine and paid tribute to everyone involved in the rollout of the inoculation programme. Kate, 39, said she had received the shot at the Science Museum, a prominent tourist attraction not far from […]
WASHINGTON: US Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick has died of injuries suffered during a riot led by supporters of President Donald Trump, the force said in a statement late yesterday. Wednesday’s breach of the building was a stunning assault on American democracy at a time when Congress was certifying the […]
OSLO: Rescue workers were still searching yesterday for survivors after a landslide that destroyed homes in a Norwegian village, leaving 10 people missing, including two children. An entire hillside collapsed in Ask, 25 kilometres northeast of the capital Oslo overnight Tuesday, leading to the evacuation of around 1,000 people. Homes […]
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said the number of people killed was likely to rise after what it called a “gruesome” attack on the passenger bus in the Benishangul-Gumuz region. Gunmen in western Ethiopia killed at least 34 people in an attack on a bus on Saturday night, the national […]
NICE: A knife attacker killed three people, cutting the throat of at least one woman, inside a church in Nice on the French Riviera yesterday. The brutal killings come only two weeks after a French teacher was decapitated outside his school north of Paris by an Islamist extremist, after the […]