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Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced on Friday that Tetsushi Sakamoto would oversee efforts to address the issue of loneliness and isolation. Sakamoto is already working on regional revitalization and reversing the country’s declining birthrate. “Women are suffering from isolation more [than men are], and the number of suicides is on …

Hitting out on Wednesday at critics of the joint project with Moscow, Heiko Maas warned the project’s detractors must consider the “geostrategic” consequences of failing to finish work on Nord Stream 2. The minister warned that those seeking to torpedo the project, such as the US, which has levied sanctions …

South Africa halted the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine following a disappointing study indicating that the vaccine is only 22 percent effective against mild and moderate cases of the local variant of the virus. Since the study was performed on 2,000 mostly young and healthy volunteers who are less likely …

Asked during an interview with Sky News on Sunday whether the government is looking at the possibility of creating a vaccine passport, as has been speculated, Zahawi said, “No we are not.”  The minister explained that those who receive their first dose of the vaccine get “a card from the …

Speaking exclusively to RT, Mikhail Galperin outlined how the Russian defense team has several arguments, but the one with particular precedent-setting ramifications concerns its contention that international law should not be abused to protect criminals.  On Friday, the Supreme Court in The Hague started hearings over a complaint brought against Russia …

Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu alleged the US government played an unspecified role in the July 15, 2016 coup d’etat attempt, Turkish daily Hurriyet reported, suggesting on a local television program that American officials “managed” the ill-fated takeover.  “Was it only FETO behind the July 15 coup? Did it just do …

The three judges were unanimous in their ruling, pointing out that Ohana acted “without legal authority” as only the health minister had the power to make such a decision. They also insisted that denying vaccines couldn’t be used as a punishment for inmates. Justice Menachem Mazuz was the harshest in …

The UK government is “pleased that the EU admitted that the Article 16 invocation” was “a mistake and they are now not proceeding with that,” Truss said on Sky News’ ‘Sophie Ridge on Sunday’. It’s vital we work together, it’s vital we keep borders open and we resist vaccine nationalism. …

Speaking on Wednesday, one day after the UK’s Covid-19 death toll topped 100,000, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick told Sky News that the government had done its best and took the “right decisions at the right time.” “We took the decisions that we could at the time on the basis of …

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Ricardo Lewandowski approved the probe on Monday, which will focus on Pazuello’s handling of a deadly viral surge in the city of Manaus, provincial capital to the Amazonas state and home to more than 2 million people. Attorney General Augusto Aras said the minister faced “extremely …