The fast-spreading delta form is so contagious that it has highlighted vaccine flaws and altered the outlook for stopping the epidemic, according to Moderna President Stephen Hoge. In a phone interview, he said Delta is “simply so good at infecting people and multiplying that it increases the bar on how strong vaccinations have to be.” […]
Thousands of Central American refugees and migrants have gathered near a bridge connecting Mexico and Texas, creating a makeshift camp full of little supplies and intense heat. Bruno Lozano, the mayor of Del Rio, said that as of Thursday evening, 10,503 people have been under the bridge. People in the area said they had little […]
New Zealand has called off its tour of Pakistan due to security concerns. The tour was scheduled to take place in September, but the PCB has since expressed its disappointment at the decision. The tour, which included five T20Is and three One-dayers, was supposed to start on October 14. Both the teams stayed at their […]
A passenger train derailed north of Cairo, killing at least 11 people, Egyptian authorities have said, in the latest in a string of rail accidents to hit the country in recent years. Four train wagons ran off the railway track by the city of Banha in Qalyubia province, just outside Cairo; the railway authority said […]
Allies of Alexei Navalny have called on his supporters to stage mass protests on Wednesday in towns and cities all across Russia, amid a dire warning that the jailed Kremlin critic and opposition leader is now dangerously ill and could die “at any minute”. Navalny said in a post on his official Instagram account on […]
Helen McCrory, the British actress best known for her roles in the ‘Harry Potter films and ‘Peaky Blinders,’ has died, her husband, actor Damian Lewis, announced on Friday. McCrory, who was 52, died “peacefully at home” after “a heroic battle with cancer,” the “Homeland” star said in a tweet. Her husband, fellow actor Damian Lewis, […]
Pakistan briefly blocked access to all social media on Friday, after days of anti-French protests across the country by radical Islamists opposed to cartoons, they consider blasphemous. In a notice to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, the Interior Ministry requested a “complete blocking” of Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp, YouTube, and Telegram until 3 pm. #Pakistan blocks social […]
Iran has begun enriching uranium to 60 percent purity, its highest level ever, a top official there revealed Friday. The move; initially revealed by Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf on Twitter and later confirmed by state television; comes on the final day of talks in Vienna between countries involved in the 2015 nuclear deal. […]
A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before killing himself in a late-night shooting at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said, in the latest in a spate of mass shootings after a relative lull during the pandemic. Five people were hospitalized after the Thursday night shooting, according to police. One […]
A Hong Kong court on Friday sent five leading pro-democracy advocates, including media tycoon Jimmy Lai, to up to 18 months in prison; for organizing a march during the 2019 anti-government protests that triggered an overwhelming crackdown from Beijing. Among those sentenced was Jimmy Lai, 72, who founded the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper. Lai received […]
