Under the new lockdown – the country’s second so far during the pandemic – all schools and shops will shut from Tuesday until January 18, while public spaces and facilities including daycare centers, hairdressers, gyms, and cinemas are to close until January 19. Pharmacies, grocery stores, and banks are allowed …
Read More »Trump announces AG Barr’s resignation, effective by Christmas, as Biden’s victory certified
“Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr at the White House. Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job!” Trump said in a series of tweets on Monday, sharing a copy of Barr’s resignation letter while adding: “Bill will be leaving just …
Read More »Britain’s AstraZeneca announces collaboration with Russia’s Sputnik V on Covid-19 vaccine trials after suggestion from Moscow
The agreement, revealed on Friday morning, came after the Russian scientists took to Twitter to propose that AstraZeneca try the combination. They said it was worth experimenting with the model preferred by Moscow researchers and using two different types of injection, rather than relying on the same one twice, as …
Read More »‘This is insanity’: As California faces new Covid-19 lockdowns, Gov. Newsom announces $80mn ‘public health’ billboard campaign
Newsom announced the “public education campaign” during a Monday press conference and unveiled some of the billboards, which include messages about remaining six feet apart and wearing masks. “I wanted to connect more to the cause of education,” Newsom said, adding over $80 million has gone into this campaign and …
Read More »Trump announces that lawyer and ‘greatest mayor in NYC’ Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for Covid-19
“[Rudy Giuliani], by far the greatest mayor in the history of NYC, and who has been working tirelessly exposing the most corrupt election (by far!) in the history of the USA, has tested positive for the China Virus,” Trump tweeted on Sunday. “Get better soon Rudy, we will carry on!!!” …
Read More »Pentagon announces partial withdrawal from Afghanistan – 2,500 troops to remain
In a press briefing on Tuesday, Miller said the troop withdrawals will take place before January 15, 2021. “I celebrate this day as we continue the president’s consistent progress in completing the mission we began two decades ago,” Miller told reporters, adding that the withdrawal decision was a “collaborative” one …
Read More »Georgia’s secretary of state announces recount ‘by hand’ amid highly contested US presidential election
“With the margin being so close, it will require a full, by hand recount in each county,” Raffensberger, a Republican, announced at a Wednesday press conference. He added that the recount will ensure that there is no question about who won the state’s 16 electoral college votes. Trump’s campaign requested …
Read More »Putin announces that Russian peacekeepers are headed for Nagorno-Karabakh as Azerbaijan & Armenia sign suprise midnight armistice
The agreement will create conditions for a long-term settlement of the crisis in the interests of both peoples, Putin said shortly after midnight Moscow time on Tuesday (10:30pm GMT Monday), confirming reports of the armistice Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan described as “painful” but necessary. According to the text of the …
Read More »US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper fired and replaced, Trump announces
Christopher C. Miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, will take on the defense secretary role “effective immediately,” Trump tweeted. “Mark Esper has been terminated. I would like to thank him for his service,” he added. Rumors have circulated for months that Esper would either be fired or resign. In June, he …
Read More »Boris Johnson announces new 4-week England lockdown – all pubs, restaurants & ‘non-essential’ shops to shut down
“I’m afraid, from Thursday, the basic message is the same: stay at home, protect the NHS, and save lives,” Johnson said. The new restrictions were “far less primitive and less restrictive” than the full-scale lockdown of March and April, he assured. From November 5 to December 2, people in England …
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