WORLD

That’s according to Viktor Medvedchuk, the chairman of Opposition Platform – For Life, a Moscow-leaning political party in Ukraine and the country’s most popular opposition group. Writing on its website, Medvedchuk announced that the company Biolik had officially asked for permission from the government to make the vaccine, noting that …

Terry Harper, a district chairman of the State Republican Executive Committee, the governing board of the GOP in Texas, lashed out at the Utah lawmaker and former presidential candidate after he argued that the Republican “ploy” to challenge the certification process on January 6 “dangerously threatens our Democratic Republic.” “Romney …

Snow took to Twitter late on Friday, posting a rather doomsday rant about the UK leaving the European bloc. “75yrs ago, after history’s bloodiest war, with its genocide & unimaginable brutality, a generation of survivors tried to prevent future war by building institutions to curb assertions of national sovereignty,” he …

Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, made the claim on Thursday to YouTube channel ‘Izolenta live.’ “It’s a nuclear power that has gone wild with the idea of its own exceptionalism, withdrawing from lots of documents, treaties, international organizations,” she said. Zakharova also believes that Washington …

The country is set to reopen for international travel at 11am on Sunday local time, the Saudi Press Agency reported, citing the Ministry of Interior. The oil-rich monarchy imposed one of the most severe and wide-ranging bans on commercial travel in a bid to curb the spread of the particularly …

Gonzalez, who fought twice in the UFC back in 2017 before moving to all-women’s promotion Invicta, suffered defeat in a grappling contest with current UFC flyweight Gillian Robertson at Submission Underground 20 on December 30, and found an unusual way to console herself. Taking to Instagram, the 34-year-old bombshell shared …

It was reported on Saturday that Tottenham players Sergio Reguilon, Giovani Lo Celso and Erik Lamela had gathered over Christmas along with West Ham ace Manuel Lanzini, apparently in breach of Covid-19 restrictions. A photo shared on social media showed the four players along with 11 other adults, a baby …

The internal memo, that began making rounds online on Saturday,  was to come into force Monday, January 4, and would have seen police officers no longer being dispatched to 911 calls dealing with stolen cars, criminal mischief, reckless damage, graffiti, runaway children and identity theft among other offences. The 911 …

Uruguay international Cavani was hit with the ban and a fine of £100,000 over the 33-year-old’s use of the term ‘Negrito’ (small black person) in an Instagram post. Cavani quickly deleted the offending post when he became aware of possible racial connotations and issued an apology to say that he …

“We raced against time and were the first country to report cases to the world,” Wang said in an interview to Chinese media published on Friday. He argued that, contrary to a prevailing opinion, China’s own outbreak of the disease was not exclusively to blame for the global pandemic.  More …