The effort to create a ‘pan-coronavirus’ jab is being spearheaded by US immunologist Drew Weissman, whose research paved the way for the current mRNA Covid-19 vaccines. “You have to assume there’s going to be more [pandemics],” Weissman told the AFP news agency on Friday, saying there was no justification in …
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Europe may snatch its best talent for their clubs, who take advantage of the poor finances and organization of its counterparts across the Atlantic, and the desire youngsters in the favelas and barrios have to play in the Champions League while establishing financial security for generations to come through astronomical salaries …
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Recently I had a rude awakening to something that was inexplicably trending worldwide. Seeing the tweet of a comedian and social commentator I follow, I learned of the bizarre ‘milk crate challenge’. While many people around are struggling to get by, or are under lockdown, a surprisingly significant number of …
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“A society that doesn’t back its soldiers and commanders, including when they make mistakes, will discover that it has nobody to fight for it,” Kohavi wrote on Saturday in what Israeli media described as a “highly irregular” public letter. The warning came in response to the public outcry over the …
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Now here’s a bit of a conundrum for the 21st century woke brigade; just where the hell does about one in every 660 men fit into the LGBTQ alphabet soup? It didn’t seem to overly concern the folk in Finland a thousand-or-so years ago, they seemed to just kind of …
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On Monday, protesters, angry at the media’s role in perpetuating what they believe are mistruths about Covid-19, descended on what they seemingly thought was the BBC HQ at Television Studios in White City. Dozens of police can be seen in footage stopping demonstrators from entering the premises. However, perceptive netizens …
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Hashtag #OccupyCongress briefly shot to the top ten of Twitter’s US trends on Sunday, with dozens of progressive commentators demanding the House come back from its 6-week recess and reinstate a federal ban on evictions, which expired on Saturday. “It’s fitting that #OccupyCongress is trending. Not only should there be …
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“There Is No Good Reason You Should Have to Be a Citizen to Vote,” blares the headline over the opinion piece, published Wednesday and authored by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian. She argues that now “it’s time for Democrats to radically expand the electorate.” Abrahamian attempts a logical case for her argument. …
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Rejoining the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the landmark 2015 agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for a lifting of economic sanctions, was one of the top foreign policy goals of Joe Biden. Better known by its acronym, JCPOA, and often referred to as the Iran nuclear deal, this …
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“Allowing these funds to be used to repay exporters in these jurisdictions will make those entities whole with respect to the goods and services they exported to Iran, address a recurring irritant in important bilateral relationships, and decrease Iran’s foreign reserves,” the waiver, which the Department of State presented to …
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