UK Transport minister: Vaccine might not work against S.African variant
British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Friday there were concerns that COVID-19 vaccines might not work properly against the highly transmissible variant of the...
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Democrats inch toward second Trump impeachment after Capitol siege
Congressional Democrats were moving closer to a historic step on Friday as they weighed impeaching President Donald Trump for a second time, two days after...
England to require travellers to show negative Covid tests
Britain’s government will require people entering England to present a negative COVID-19 test result on arrival starting next week to protect against new strains of...
EU citizens will be banned from using ID cards to enter UK from October
European Union citizens will be banned from using ID cards to enter Britain from October amidst growing concern about the proliferation of fake European IDs,...
S. Africa’s plan to record all babies’ biometrics raises privacy fears
Plans to photograph and fingerprint every baby born in South Africa for a digital register could lead to data leaks and identity theft without robust...
Elon Musk leaves behind Amazon’s Bezos to become world’s richest person
Tesla Inc chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk surpassed Amazon.com Inc’s top boss Jeff Bezos to become the world’s richest man, Bloomberg News reported on...
British health minister defends decision to space COVID-19 vaccine doses
Britain’s move to delay the second doses of COVID-19 vaccines will help save lives as more people will be able to get some initial protection,...
Insight – How security failures enabled Trump mob to storm US Capitol
The bloody chaos inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday came after the police force that protects the legislative complex was overrun by a mob of...
Some Trump supporters expected in court
The first round of President Donald Trump’s supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in a brazen attack on the seat of government were due in...
Turkish court accepts new indictment against former Kurdish leader
A Turkish court accepted an indictment against jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas on Thursday, state media reported, rebuffing demands by the European Court of Human...
