The body published a report from its Common Mission of Information on Thursday, advocating for mandatory vaccinations of young to middle-aged adults on the grounds it could significantly lower hospitalization rates and deaths. The report issued a stern warning: “act now to limit impact”. The report follows Prime Minister Jean Castex’s …
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Declining to consider the appeal brought by a Washington state florist, the Supreme Court on Friday deferred to earlier state court rulings on the case. In 2013, Barronelle Stutzman refused to provide flowers for the same-sex wedding of two male customers because it violated her “relationship with Jesus Christ.” The …
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Major news outlets had reported earlier on Friday that troops leaving the Bagram Air Base, one of the largest military sites in Afghanistan, would be followed by a full withdrawal within days. However, Biden dismissed those reports while speaking to reporters at the White House. Asked if a full withdrawal was …
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The emergency occurred aboard Transair Flight 810 early on Friday morning local time, the Federal Aviation Administration reported, as cited by CNBC, which was the first to break the news. “The pilots had reported engine trouble and were attempting to return to Honolulu when they were forced to land the …
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Over the past 20 years, we have undergone a digital revolution that has changed our lives beyond all comprehension. Our world is connected and informed in a way that was previously unprecedented, thanks to a number of pioneering companies from the United States. But now things are starting to change. …
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Bezos, named the world’s richest man by Forbes magazine earlier this year, with assets worth some $189 billion, is set to quit his post to free up time for his space-travel venture, Blue Origin. Initially built as an online bookstore back in the 1990s, Amazon is now one of the …
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Afghanistan’s neighbors Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as Kazakhstan, may shelter as many as 9,000 Afghans qualified for the so-called Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program. It is meant for people who worked for the US government or the NATO-led coalition that invaded Afghanistan two decades ago and now face retribution …
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It’s often said that when mankind acknowledges that ‘life’ in the universe has been confirmed and an intelligent civilization reaches out to us, that ‘contact’ will be the most profound moment in human history. So, almost everyone is in agreement as to the ramifications of such ‘contact’, but have we …
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If the company bearing former President Donald Trump’s name now finds itself criminally charged in the overwhelmingly Democrat-dominated state of New York for an alleged tax scheme that predates his presidency – with its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, paraded in handcuffs and charged personally with another 15 felony financial-related …
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“I’ll hand over the presidential sash to whoever wins the election cleanly,” Jair Bolsonaro said in an address on social media. “Not with fraud.” The warning from the right-wing strongman was directed at opponents of the mooted constitutional reform, which would mandate paper ballots in all elections in Brazil. The …
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