Author: Cole Hanson

Nine members of an Argentine scientific and military base in Antarctica were evacuated this weekend, official sources said Thursday, after an outbreak infected 24 of the base’s 43 occupants with the COVID-19 virus. • Read also: AstraZeneca vaccine reaches Antarctica • Read also: In Antarctica, safe from COVID-19 The nine positive cases, who have not been vaccinated because they have been stationed at the Esperanza base since 2020, were evacuated by helicopter on Saturday in a delicate operation during a weather window of a few hours, and flown to Buenos Aires there. Isolated, although no one is sick. “The situation…

China and Russia on Thursday blocked at the United Nations a US request last week to impose sanctions on five North Koreans, one of whom live in Russia and the other four on Chinese soil, in response to the North’s recent missile strikes. • Read also: North Korea hints at possible resumption of nuclear or long-range missile tests • Read also: North Korea confirmed that it fired two missiles on Monday The 15 members of the Security Council had until 8:00 pm GMT to decide on the US request. The Chinese blockade came two hours before a new closed-door meeting…

“Exhausted” and overwhelmed by the influx of most unvaccinated COVID-19 patients, Dr. James Samuel Pope, director of the intensive care unit at Hartford Hospital, Connecticut in the US, hopes that the Omicron wave of the pandemic will be the last. “The frustration is very real (…) We are all exhausted,” said the American doctor frankly who opened the doors of the intensive care unit to AFP in an exceptional way. Nearly two years after the outbreak of the pandemic in the United States, the deadliest country in the world with 847,000 deaths, “among those of us who have been here…

US senators dealt a stinging setback for Joe Biden on Wednesday by burying his key electoral reforms that the president had promised to protect African-American access to the polls. Organizing elections is a hot topic in America more than ever. Ten months before the midterm elections, the Democratic leader, through his reform, wanted to establish a framework that all states must respect to organize federal elections in the United States. In doing so, he reverses a series of restrictions that have been adopted in fifteen county states since the 2020 presidential election. According to the NGOs, these restrictions intentionally discriminate…

The international system Covax, which provides vaccines against COVID-19 to poor countries, said on Wednesday that it needs $5.2 billion within three months to fund the 2022 serum doses. • Read also: Covid-19: Poor countries refuse 100 million doses of vaccine near the expiration date • Read also: The World Economic Forum warns that inequality in access to a vaccine may complicate climate challenges • Read also: Global Summit on Fair Vaccination Covax celebrated the delivery of its billionth dose last weekend, after nearly a year of operations and a marked boost in November and December 2021. “In 2022, we…

Saudi authorities have warned that spreading “rumours” about “public order” is punishable by up to five years in prison and a heavy fine, following online allegations of sexual harassment cases. The ultra-conservative kingdom canceled a concert at the last minute on Friday due to heavy rain, causing panic among the audience. Then several netizens mentioned cases of women who had been sexually harassed when they left the building after the concert was cancelled. The Public Prosecutor’s Office warned in a statement that “publishing or contributing in any way to the dissemination of rumors and lies via social media on matters…

(Paris) Several international organizations, including the NGO Oxfam and a group of philanthropic millionaires, are proposing a tax on the richest people on the planet that would lift billions out of poverty and immunize the planet against COVID-19. Posted yesterday at 7:25pm. As billions of people struggle to survive during this pandemic, the fortunes of billionaires are spiraling out of control. “This can’t be fair,” Jenny Rex, global coordinator of the activist movement Coalition Against Inequality, one of the group’s member organizations, said in a statement. On Monday, an Oxfam report showed that the ten richest people on the planet,…

Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vatican No. • Read also: Covid: Bob defends vaccines and attacks ‘baseless information’ • Read also: Pope laments pets ‘sometimes replace children’ Press room director Matteo Bruni told reporters that Bishop Parolin, 67, “has tested positive for COVID, but with mild symptoms, and is currently in solitary confinement.” He added that Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, Venezuela’s alternate Archbishop of the State Secretariat, had tested positive and had no symptoms. Both are vaccinated against the virus. Pope Francis, 85, who has been vaccinated, often meets Bishop Parolin on his right arm, a…

La «perpétuité» ne devrait pas s’appliquer à l’homme qui an immolé son ancienne conjointe à l’été 2019 dans Saint-Sauveur, la défense estimant plutôt que le juge devrait condamner Frej Haj Messaine entre 7 variant « 15 years”. • Read also: Quebec ex-husband burned alive: Crown Prince demands life imprisonment for Hajj Messaoud • Read also: Woman sacrificed in Quebec: victim suffered ‘extreme suffering’ And while the Crown Prince’s advisor relied in the sentencing memoranda on Monday on many aggravating factors, the defense tried on Tuesday morning to shed light on the factors that could reduce the prison sentence that will…

Sorry, your browser does not support videos (Washington) Family members of Martin Luther King Jr. protested in Washington on Monday to demand Congress’ passage of polling reforms, as the United States marked the anniversary of the civil rights leader’s assassination. Updated yesterday at 8:47 PM. Le fils du célèbre révérend, Martin Luther King III, a pris la parole lors de la marche, avertissant que de nombreux États “ont adopté des lois qui rendent le vote plus difficile”, plus d’un demi-siècle après de les disc s disc His father. Monday’s rally participants echoed Martin Luther King’s demands more than 60 years…