by Delphia | Dec 26, 2022 | News
Britain will stop publishing the COVID-19 R number that measures how quickly the disease is spreading among the population, saying on Monday it was not needed anymore thanks to vaccines and drugs. The R number, or “reproduction number”, has been a staple...
by Delphia | Dec 26, 2022 | News
Tunisia’s powerful UGTT union will hold mass protests and “occupy the streets” soon to show its rejection of next year’s austerity budget, the leader of the union said on Monday, in its strongest challenge to the government of President Kais...
by Delphia | Dec 26, 2022 | News
A suspect accused of gunning down three Kurdish people in Paris told investigators of his “hatred of foreigners”, the Paris prosecutor said on Sunday. The 69-year-old man was arrested on Friday after two men and a woman were shot dead at a Kurdish cultural...
by Delphia | Dec 26, 2022 | News
Iran’s foreign ministry said on Monday the arrests of citizens linked to the United Kingdom reflected Britain’s “destructive role” in the recent protests in the Islamic Republic. Iran has accused Western countries, Israel and Saudi Arabia of...
by Delphia | Dec 26, 2022 | News
Several leading Israeli businesses pledged on Monday to strengthen their internal anti-discrimination rules following remarks by hard-right members of Israel’s incoming government seen as undermining gender equality and minority rights. The remarks, including a...
by Delphia | Dec 26, 2022 | News
Three military personnel were killed as a result of wreckage from a Ukrainian drone falling on a military base in Russia’s Saratov region, Russian agencies reported citing the country’s defence ministry. “On December 26, at about 01:35 Moscow time, a...
by Delphia | Dec 26, 2022 | News
Argentina’s president Alberto Fernandez said Monday his government would abide by a recent Supreme Court ruling and give a larger proportion of state funds to the opposition-controlled city of Buenos Aires. The announcement signaled a reversal from a decision...
by Delphia | Dec 26, 2022 | News
A lethal blizzard paralyzed Buffalo, New York, on Christmas Day, trapping motorists and rescue workers in their vehicles, leaving thousands of homes without power and raising the death toll from storms that have chilled much of the United States for days. At least 30...
by Delphia | Dec 26, 2022 | News
ask-wearing Beijing and Shanghai commuters crowded subway trains on Monday as China’s two biggest cities edged closer to living with COVID-19 even as frontline medical workers scrambled to cope with millions of new infections. After three years of harsh...
by Delphia | Dec 26, 2022 | News
Algeria has set the reference price for crude oil at $60 a barrel through 2023-2025, state news agency (APS) said on Sunday, citing the 2023 budget approved earlier in the day by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune. The budget set the market price for crude oil at $70 a...
