Speaking on Thursday, the director of the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler, reiterated the case for new, strict countermeasures to prevent the spread of Covid-19. “We are currently heading toward a serious emergency,” Wieler stated, adding “we are going to have a really terrible Christmas if we don’t take countermeasures …
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Politicians including Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, have called for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games because of questions around China’s human rights records, including claims that have been supported by human rights groups over the incarceration of Muslims in the Xinjiang province …
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Speaking on Tuesday, the Republican politician accused the government of having no plan to defeat terrorism in the Middle East following the American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. “What we’re seeing in the reports today about asking to use Russian bases, that’s just another example that we see of the Biden …
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“It is a terrible time for our country. I don’t think in all of the years our country has ever been so humiliated,” the former president told Sean Hannity on his Fox News show. “I don’t know what you call it – a military defeat or a psychological defeat, there …
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The outage caused rising fuel prices with the national average climbing to more than $3 a gallon for the first time in six years. However, the current crisis shouldn’t be attributed to the pipeline shutdown alone, according to Jeffrey A. Tucker of the American Institute for Economic Research. According to …
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During an annual shareholder conference held earlier this week in Reston, Virginia, Benjamin tore into the firm for its prolific and highly profitable weapons sales to countries around the world, arguing that its bottom line depends on war and bloodshed. “If you have a model where you need global conflict, …
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Just 86 short days ago, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. The theme of his inauguration was ‘America United.’ In his first speech to the nation as president-elect, he vowed he would be the one to unite the country after Donald J. Trump’s …
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More than 15,000 unaccompanied migrant children are currently in custody at the US’ southern border with Mexico, with more than 5,000 held in temporary Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities deemed“unacceptable and inhumane,” in the words of Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Border crossings almost tripled in February compared to one …
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Asking Californians to “get the most out of masking,” the state’s new guidelines recommend an extra cloth covering as a way to “improve fit and filtration,” with Newsom noting the update was prompted by decisions in several states to lift their public masking requirements. “We are encouraging people basically to …
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“No words can express my regret, my embarrassment, and my disgust for my behavior,” Ducklo wrote, as he announced his departure from the President Joe Biden administration on Saturday evening. Ducklo was suspended without pay on Friday after Vanity Fair revealed that he threatened Politico’s Tara Palmeri as he had …
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