Cairo: Egyptian authorities on Saturday released a journalist working for Qatar’s Al Jazeera television network who was held in pre-trial detention for more than four years, his brother and a lawyer told a local news channel. Mahmoud Hussein, an Egyptian detained in December 2016 after arriving in Cairo from Doha on vacation, was held on […]
The Pfizer BioNTech vaccine is the second submitted for full approval in Brazil after AstraZeneca applied on January 29 for the vaccine it created with Oxford University. That vaccine is being manufactured in Brazil in partnership with the federally funded Fiocruz biomedical center. Brazil has already approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and the Chinese-developed SinoVac shots […]
President Joe Biden has said that Donald Trump should not be given any access to intelligence briefings because of his “erratic behaviour”. According to the US tradition, former presidents could be allowed on the briefing of the nation’s security issues. But when he was asked that would the former president would receive the same courtesy in […]
The new military rulers of Myanmar on Friday ordered mobile operators and internet service providers to block access to Twitter and Instagram in the country until further notice, Norwegian telecom Telenor said. The government had already ordered internet providers on Thursday to block Facebook; which counts half of the population of 54 million as users, […]
Russia has announced the expulsion of diplomats from Sweden, Germany, and Poland, accusing them of taking part in illegal protests last month against the jailing of Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny. The foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday that Moscow considered the actions of the diplomats unacceptable and that it expects diplomats from the […]
President Biden announced Thursday that the U.S. will no longer support offensive military operations led by Saudi Arabia in Yemen, reversing a policy started by the Obama administration and continued by the Trump administration despite widespread accusations of Saudi war crimes. U.S. President Joe Biden made the announcement during a wide-ranging foreign policy speech; that declared diplomacy […]
Joe Biden served 14 years as the democrat on the senate judiciary committee. He has spent months building an extensive pipeline of judicial nominees to fill the court vacancies throughout the country. Attempting to swiftly remake portions of the judiciary and undo one of his predecessor’s most significant achievements. Biden has taken part in hundreds […]
Pfizer Inc has withdrawn an application for emergency-use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine in India that it has developed with Germany’s BioNTech, the company told the local news agency on Friday. The United States company; which was the first drugmaker to apply for emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine in India; had a meeting […]
Kuwait will impose a new round of swift restrictions from Sunday, including a two-week entry ban on non-citizens, as part of its latest attempt to curb the spread of the Covid. The decision was announced on Wednesday following an extraordinary cabinet meeting as the country is witnessing an uptick in the number of COVID-19 infections […]
Myanmar police have charged Aung San Suu Kyi with possession of illegally-imported walkie-talkies, which could result in a two-year prison sentence. A document from a police station in the capital said military officers who searched Aung San Suu Kyi’s residence had found handheld radios that were imported illegally and used without permission by her bodyguards. […]
