A German court on Wednesday sentenced an Iraqi preacher to more than 10 years in prison after finding him guilty of taking part in planning an attack in Germany and collecting funds and fighters for the Islamic State militant group. Prosecutors had accused the 40-year-old preacher, identified as Ahmad Abdulaziz Abdullah in court documents; of […]
An attack on a United Nations convoy has killed the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Italy’s foreign ministry said Monday. The ambush on the World Food Program convoy that killed Ambassador Luca Attanasio and the officer occurred near Goma; Congo’s eastern regional capital in the territory of Nyiragongo; in North Kivu; […]
A Nigerian military aircraft has crashed near Abuja airport, killing all seven people on board, according to officials. “First responders are at the scene. Sadly, all 7 personnel on board died in the crash,” Ibikunle Daramole; air force spokesman, said in a statement on Sunday. The Beechcraft KingAir B350i aircraft crashed; while returning to the […]
Australia has kicked off its COVID-19 vaccination program a day ahead of schedule, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison and an 84-year-old World War II survivor among the first Australians to receive the first dose of their coronavirus jabs. Morrison and Jane Malysiak were injected with the COVID-19 vaccine jointly developed by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech […]
At least three people in Guinea have died from Ebola and an additional four people have been confirmed to be infected, according to the country’s health authorities. The cases announced by the health ministry on Sunday are the first since the deadly Ebola epidemic ravaged the country, alongside Liberia and Sierra Leone, five years ago. […]
London: UK government scientific advisers say the Covid-19 variant now predominant in the country may be up to 70 percent more deadly than previous variants, underscoring concerns about how mutations may change the characteristics of the disease. The findings from the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group; published Friday on the government’s website, […]
Zimbabwe has received its first 200,000 coronavirus vaccines, a donation by the Chinese government. Vice President and Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga were at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in the capital; Harare, in the early hours of Monday for the arrival of the doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from China. “It has not been lost […]
At least five people were killed Thursday in a massive crash involving 75 to 100 vehicles on an icy Texas interstate, police said, as a winter storm dropped freezing rain, sleet, and snow on a large section of the United States. The number of injured was still unknown as police were still addressing the accident […]
Qatar issued an emergency use authorization for the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine; the second coronavirus jab approved in the country after the one developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) said the move on Wednesday came after an extensive review of the vaccine. “The comprehensive clinical trial process on Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine […]
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 […]
