The Covid vaccine first dose is close to being administered to all over 80s in several of England’s counties. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said successful vaccination by February 15 is a crucial milestone for the UK to hit before ministers can start
Beirut, Lebanon – Lebanon has extended a hard lockdown by two weeks amid record-breaking numbers of COVID-related deaths and an unabated surge in the number of new cases that have stretched the country’s healthcare system to its limits. Meanwhile, a top health
John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, has said there is “no wonder millions of us have turned off the BBC” in recent years. It is the latest group to renew calls for scrapping the licence fee in 2021. The remarks
Mr Johnson is purportedly looking at Good Friday, on the first week of April, as a key date for the relaxation of lockdown measures. The potential plans are set to give millions hopes of seeing their families again over Easter, according to the
CHINA expects to launch their third aircraft carrier this year according to state media reports, after Chairman Xi Jinping ordered troops to be prepared for war “at all times”.
Moon Jae-in’s nation ranks in and around the global top 10 in gross domestic product and defence spending. But the country faces turmoil amid escalating tensions between Beijing and Washington. Kim Joon-hyung, chancellor of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA) in Seoul,
They also said the global impact from the pandemic could be worse in 2021 compared to last year. The first human case of COVID-19 was reported by officials in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Since its initial outbreak in China,
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits with states surged to 965,000 last week as soaring COVID-19 infections and measures to contain them accelerate layoffs. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits climbed toward one million last week as business-sapping
It follows the discovery of another tunnel in November last year that Indian media outlets had said appeared to have been “professionally engineered”. The tunnel had been described as “on the international border,” 40 metres long on the Pakistani side and with
In an annual report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), the group said in 2020 many world Governments found “safety in numbers” to rally against China. HRW added that the Governments reflected “Beijing’s inability to retaliate against the entire world”. The report said persecutions