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To speed up the immunization campaign, the French Academy of Medicine suggests waiting six months between administering the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine and the second. “The main challenge to overcome the current health crisis is the acquisition of sufficient collective immunity to control the circulation of the virus and to relax the measures...

On Thursday, European Union Parliament councils overwhelmingly supported the new trade agreement among Britain and the 27-nation bloc, propelling it forward to the full legislature for the concluding vote scheduled end of this April.  The United Kingdom and the EU secured the deal on 2020’s Christmas Eve, however, it requires the final approval of the...

After the problems with the delivery of vaccines by AstraZeneca and the sudden stop of Johnson & Johnson, the European Union once again relies on Pfizer. By June, the US pharmaceutical company will deliver 50 million additional doses of the drug developed with Germany’s BioNTech, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced yesterday. She also...

“I will never allow such an incident to happen again.” At the first contact after the “sofa-gate” of Ankara, Ursula von der Leyen is direct with Charles Michel. After having denied calls from the President of the European Council for six days, the number one of the EU Commission agrees to attend what her institution,...

It is not an easy time for Germany to find a perfect replacement for Angela Merkel, who held reigns of the Europe’s powerhouse for the past 16 years. But race for the chancellorship grew intense as two candidates from Merkel’s ruling alliance entered the bid to be her successor. The country’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU)...

That on vaccines is «a geopolitical war» on which «the concept of sovereignty is at stake. Observers believe that the European Union is about to lose this war, for the simple reason that on anti-coronavirus vaccines the EU pays for the lack of own production. Reflections that contrast with the story of Europe as a...

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William Burns made a clear statement in a recent House Select Committee meeting with members about the threat that China poses to the rest of the world. The US isn’t mincing its words when it says it is in loggerheads with China over several issues. The issues on focus...

Extending an olive branch to the UAE, the promise made in Trump’s administration has been kept in Biden’s presidency too. While most of Biden’s proposed economic layout did not include a huge sum towards defense spending, it seems he has reconciled to this one agreement that had been made with the UAE before Trump stepped...

Iran’s nuclear facility was ‘sabotaged’ in a cyberattack, probably carried out by Israel. The timing of attack that led to power failure at Natanz nuclear reactor facility, south of Tehran, on Sunday appeared to be well planned and took place just a day after it unveiled new uranium enrichment equipment. It was called an “act...

Russia is aligning its troops along Ukraine’s borders. This has prompted Ukraine to urge NATO and key member states to hasten its membership process. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy talked to Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary general, urging for putting country on membership process in order to put an end to conflict in the eastern Donbas region. The...

A clear reference to Washington’s disruptive actions in the first phone call between the Chinese leader and the German chancellor after the European sanctions against four senior officials in Beijing for human rights violations. We cooperate, but don’t get involved and don’t be swayed by the Americans. This, in essence, is the message delivered by...

Despite United States warning, India is keen on manufacturing high-tech weapons with Russia under PM Modi’s Make-in-India initiative, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a meeting with his counterpart S Jaishankar stated on Tuesday. The top ministers from the two countries had a conversation on a wide range of issues associated with Afghanistan, space, defense,...

Early Monday morning saw unfortunate turn of events as a migrants boat from Yemen capsized off the Djibouti coast, east Africa. The United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday confirmed that 42 migrants onboard had died. The IOM’s Regional Director for East and the Horn of Africa, Mohammed Abdiker, shared on Tuesday in...

As festivities catch up with the general public, there is a scare that the festival of Ramadan might lead to a spike in Covid cases. Indeed, we are still not out of the woods as Covid-19 variants continue to challenge the efficacy of various vaccines and many Middle Eastern poorer nations are still not completely...

U.S. President Joe Biden in his speech on April 14 is expected to formally announce the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.  The announcement, ordering U.S. troops to withdraw by September 11, will put an end to America’s longest war. This date is significant because it marks 20 years from the date when Al-Qaeda attacked...

Syria is signing oil and gas exploration deals with Russian company in Mediterranean waters, a step that ideally should have seen retaliation from Lebanon. But Lebanese are not protesting as they previously claimed ownership on that patch in the Mediterranean waters. There is an indication that the Lebanese have retreated due to a possible threat...

Sources confirmed the resurgence of Al Qaeda and re-establishing of its grip over its former strongholds in Yemen. Experts believed that Muslim Brotherhood’s wing operating in the conflict-riddled country was responsible for the return of the extremist group. The terror group became active in the country back in 2011, when rebel forces rose up against...

JERUSALEM: Israel will tell the International Criminal Court (ICC) that it does not recognise the authority, which is currently planning to investigate the war crimes in the Palestinian territories. In a statement on Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would never cooperate with the inquiry, but will send a response. “It is to be...

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry is in China for talks on Thursday, as the two countries look forward to cooperate over the environment despite being at loggerheads on other fronts. This trip is important as it lies shortly ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate summit of world leaders. Biden’s virtual summit will take place...

Myanmar pro-democracy activists have, on Tuesday, pledged to hold several rounds of protests this week to keep the pressure on the military leadership during the country’s most important holiday of the year. Thingyan, the five-day New Year holidays, is usually celebrated with a ritual cleaning of Buddha images in temples, prayers, and throwing high-spirited water...

Amid a hefty crackdown on dissenting voices in Hong Kong, Canada has opened up study, work and residency permit programmers for the people of Hong Kong but an advocacy group has urged the country to “do more” to help the Hong Kongers. The Canadian government announced its new immigration measures in November to ask the...

Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group, the world’s greatest e-commerce company got massively fined by China’s regulator on Saturday. A record sum of $2.75 billion fine was imposed on the company for violating anti-monopoly laws and taking advantage of its dominant market position, marking the highest antitrust fine ever, Reuters reported. Alibaba’s richest founder Jack Ma’s Company...

Greenland has made it very clear that it is not interested in trading its rare earth minerals with everyone, at least not at the moment. Earlier, it was Trump that was that was shooed away.  Now, it is Australia and China too. Greenland is one of the richest sources of rare earth in the world...

The Australian Government announces it will amend legislative laws to attempt to get rid of sexual misbehavior in Australian work environments. Also, the key measures declared by the public authority on Thursday are to alter the Sex Discrimination Act to incorporate MPs, judges, and public workers who are absolved under current sexual harassment laws.  Since...