With pharmaceutical companies touting the possibility of booster shots against the latest Covid-19 variants, Dr. Swaminathan warned on Monday against mixing different vaccines in an effort to boost immunity. “I really want to caution folks,” Swaminathan said during a World Health Organization (WHO) press briefing. “There are people who are …
Read More »‘Our friendship is on the line’: Neymar warns ‘great friend’ Lionel Messi as pair face tantalizing Copa America final showdown
Going into the game, history is on the side of the five-time World Cup winning home team and current Copa America holders, who were handed hosting responsibilities at the last minute. The latest edition of the world’s oldest international tournament was meant to be jointly shared by Argentina and Colombia. But …
Read More »US orders amphibious assault ship into Black Sea after Moscow warns tensions escalating dangerously in waters off coast of Russia
According to commanders, the US Naval Ship Yuma, a Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport craft, “began its northbound transit into the Black Sea to operate with our NATO allies and partners.” The twin-hulled catamaran is able to transit a whole company of US Marines and is equipped with both a flight …
Read More »Following British warship incident, Moscow warns next foreign power to violate Black Sea borders ‘will get a punch in the nose’
Speaking to the Moscow’s International Affairs news outlet on Tuesday, Sergey Ryabkov was referring to last month’s incident involving the British destroyer HMS Defender, which violated Russia’s maritime borders near Crimea. The senior official stressed that the Black Sea was not a place where “games are allowed,” noting that such incursions …
Read More »Taliban says seizing Kabul not a military objective, but warns ‘policy’ could change if foreign troops stay past exit deadline
Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told the BBC that any foreign soldiers who stay behind after the September exit agreement risk being treated as occupiers. He said that, while capturing the Afghan capital was “not Taliban policy,” nothing would be off the table should foreign forces – including military contractors – …
Read More »WHO Europe leader warns of new wave as Covid cases creep up after 10-week decline across continent
Hans Kluge raised concern over the 10% rise in new coronavirus infections in Europe and warned that “there will be a new wave in the WHO European region unless we remained disciplined.” The WHO leader said that cases have risen due to a combination of the easing of social distancing …
Read More »Eco-study warns Israel’s open spaces will SHRINK as its population grows – and the settlement question is the elephant in the room
If Israel’s current birth rates continue, the Jewish state’s population will almost double by 2050, going from nine million to 17.6 million by the middle of the century. Given that the country’s population density has quadrupled since the 1960s, and is on track to outstrip even the tightly-packed Netherlands in …
Read More »‘Would plunge into greater disappointment’: Kim Yo-jong warns US not to get hopes up for return to dialogue with North Korea
Last week, after Kim Jong-un said North Korea must be prepared for “dialogue and confrontation,” White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan called the comments an “interesting signal” and added that the Biden administration “will wait to see whether they are followed up with any kind of more direct communication …
Read More »WHO epidemiologist warns future ‘constellation of mutations’ could challenge Covid vaccine effectiveness
World leaders have presented vaccines to the public as a ticket back to normality, with US President Joe Biden promising a “summer of freedom” should his target of vaccinating 70% of Americans be reached by July 4. Even against more transmissible variants of the coronavirus – for example the ‘Delta …
Read More »Don’t buy crypto! Russian central bank warns against investing in volatile digital currencies, citing risk of ‘enormous’ losses
As part of an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda published on Monday, Elvira Nabiullina, chair of the country’s Central Bank, argued that investments in any kind of currency were always risky. “Losing in the foreign exchange market is much easier than it is to make money,” she said. “The most dangerous …
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