Syrian air defences were activated after the country’s principal port city of Latakia came under a missile attack, which sparked a major fire resulting in significant damage to the port, Syria’s state media reported. The attack took place around 3:21 a.m local time [01:21 GMT] on Tuesday, with rockets being …
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Minnesota’s state health department has adopted new ethical standards that include considering a person’s skin color in determining who can receive a potentially life-saving treatment for Covid-19 patients. At issue is allocation of monoclonal antibodies, which have been in hot demand and short supply after proving effective in helping to …
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has cut its guidance for isolation of people newly infected with Covid-19 to five days from 10, saying the virus typically spreads early in the course of illness. The change stems from growing evidence that Covid-19 transmission usually occurs within a …
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The Syrian government has sharply denounced an Israeli plan to double the population of Jewish settlers in the occupied Golan Heights – captured from Damascus in 1967 – arguing the move is fomenting tensions. In a statement on Monday, the Syrian Foreign Ministry rejected the latest Jewish settlement expansion plan, …
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Airplane makers Boeing and Airbus have renewed their warnings that 5G cell phone signals – supposed to be rolled out in earnest in early January – may threaten the ability of aircraft to operate safely in low visibility areas. The CEOs of both plane manufacturers warned US Transportation Secretary Pete …
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After breaking for Christmas, jurors returned to a federal court in Manhattan on Monday to decide the fate of Ghislaine Maxwell. Accused of grooming and abusing four young women, Maxwell faces 80 years behind bars if convicted. The jurors requested transcripts of witness testimony, as well as a definition of …
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President Joe Biden has apparently backed down from his pre-election pledge to stop Covid-19 in its tracks, telling governors that it’s up to state governments to end the pandemic. “There is no federal solution,” Biden said on Monday in a teleconference with governors. “This gets solved at the state level.” …
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Covid testing providers are “alphabet hacking” the UK government’s list of approved firms by using punctuation and numerals to beat the site’s filters and promote their products as the preferred choice, an investigation has found. Around one in eight (or 13%) of the private PCR testing firms currently on the …
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Had Moscow not reabsorbed Crimea in 2014, radical groups from Ukraine as well as Western private military soldiers would have made it their stronghold, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has claimed. Speaking as part of an interview with Moscow newspaper Argumenty i Fakty published on Monday, the senior official said …
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There is no intention to remove the body of former Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin from his mausoleum on Red Square, and such a move won’t take place in the foreseeable future, the Kremlin has revealed. Speaking on Monday, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there are “no such plans” to …
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