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Tokyo Games official not ruling out cancellation amid rising coronavirus cases

Ihesiulo Grace 20 July 2021 0

Tokyo Olympics organising committee chief, Toshiro Muto, has not ruled out cancelling the Games at the last minute should there be a surge in coronavirus cases. Officials announced a further nine positive cases among those linked to the Games on Tuesday, taking the overall number of people

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65% of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation spread by 12 people

Ihesiulo Grace 19 July 2021 0

When it comes to COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, the voices of few reached many, according to a study. Approximately 65 per cent of misinformation about the vaccine that’s spread on social media can be traced back to 12 people, says the Centre for Countering Digital Hate in a recent report. The non-profit organisation referred to those […]

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Spain to pardon jailed Catalan separatist leaders

Ihesiulo Grace 21 June 2021 0

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday said his government would pardon the nine jailed leaders of Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence. According to Sanchez, this is in a bid toward ending the political conflict over the wealthy region. Sanchez spoke in Barcelona’s opera house, while several hundred separatists protested outside, demanding still more

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U.S. ready to meet N. Korean officials ‘anywhere, anytime’ – Envoy

Ihesiulo Grace 21 June 2021 0

The United States on Monday reiterated its readiness to hold talks on North Korea’s nuclear programme without any preconditions. “We continue to hope that North Korea will respond positively to our outreach and offer to meet anywhere, anytime without preconditions,’’ U.S. special envoy Sung Kim said. Negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang have not made progress […]

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Three astronauts enter Tianhe core module of China’s space station

Ihesiulo Grace 20 June 2021 0

Chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming, and Tang Hongbo onboard China’s Shenzhou-12 spaceship entered the Tianhe core module of the country’s space station at 18:48 on June 17, 2021 Beijing time after Shenzhou-12 completed a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the orbiting Tianhe module, which marked the first time the Chinese have entered their

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Guterres secures 2nd term as UN secretary-general

Ihesiulo Grace 19 June 2021 0

*Appoints Amina Mohammed as UN deputy secretary-general for second term António Guterres has been re-appointed for a second term as UN Secretary-General and has pledged as his priority, continual help to the world toward charting a course out of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Guterres, whose first five-year term began on Januart 1, 2017 and ends […]

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Bangladesh’s ex-PM Zia gravely ill, says party

Ihesiulo Grace 18 June 2021 0

By Mahbub Hasan Tutul Opposition party BNP has urged the government to allow its chairperson and former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Khaleda Zia, to receive advanced treatment abroad, shunning “politics of vengeance”, as she is in a vulnerable state with various health complications. “Our chairperson is now seriously ill. As she couldn’t receive

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Carbon emission manager, a new profession that helps enterprises consolidate green development

Ihesiulo Grace 17 June 2021 0

A slew of reform measures have been rolled out by China since the country proposed to peak carbon emission and achieve carbon neutrality. A national carbon emission trading system is scheduled to be launched this year, under which enterprises would be allocated with carbon emission quota by relevant government departments according to certain standards. If […]

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China plans to bring back samples from Mars around 2030

Ihesiulo Grace 16 June 2021 0

China plans to launch a mission around 2030 to bring back samples from Mars, according to a press conference held by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on June 12 in Beijing following the complete success of China’s first Mars exploration mission of orbiting, landing, and roving the red planet in one mission by Tianwen-1. […]

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Biden’s first NATO summit to tackle China, Russia, reform

Ihesiulo Grace 14 June 2021 0

U.S. President Joe Biden is to take part in his debut NATO summit on Monday as the 30 countries look to turn their attention to external threats. The organisation will also seek to put the strained years of Donald Trump’s administration behind them. The NATO members are planning to call on China to respect international […]

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New Israeli premier Bennett presents new Cabinet

Ihesiulo Grace 14 June 2021 0

Israel’s new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett presented his new Cabinet on Monday. The 27 ministers met in Jerusalem with President Reuven Rivlin for a traditional photo. The new coalition is made up of eight parties along the political spectrum, including an Arab party for the first time. On July 9, Rivlin himself is to be […]

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Put people first and forge global synergy in fighting against COVID-19

Ihesiulo Grace 10 June 2021 0

China’s people-centered approach in human rights protection was praised by representatives of many European countries at the 2021 China-Europe Seminar on Human Rights held both online and offline on Tuesday. In its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, China has always put people and their lives first and made every effort to safeguard people’s right to […]

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Russia will not provide free vaccination to foreign citizens – Putin

Ihesiulo Grace 4 June 2021 0

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia would not vaccinate foreign citizens against COVID-19 for free. “There is a practice where people from different countries, including businessmen, the chiefs of large European and other companies, intentionally come to Russia to receive a vaccine against the coronavirus. “In this regard, I request the government

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Top bishop resigns from German Catholic church

Ihesiulo Grace 4 June 2021 0

The German Catholic Church has been rocked by a fresh crisis following the shock resignation of one of its most influential bishops over the Church’s sexual abuse scandal. “In essence, for me, it is a matter of sharing responsibility for the catastrophe of sexual abuse by church officials over the past decades,” Cardinal Reinhard Marx […]

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China’s rover makes first step on Mars

Ihesiulo Grace 29 May 2021 0

China’s first Mars rover, Zhurong, drove down from its landing platform to the Martian surface at 10:40 a.m. (Beijing Time), May 22 and started exploring, leaving the first mark of China on the red planet. It marched 0.522 meters on the surface of Mars to mark the important date. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) […]

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Jailed Hong Kong billionaire bags additional 14 months sentence

Ihesiulo Grace 28 May 2021 0

Jailed Hong Kong billionaire media tycoon and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai was given a new prison sentence of 14 months on Friday. The media mogul got the additional sentence over his role in an unauthorised assembly on Oct. 1, 2019, during one of the city’s pro-democracy rallies that year. This month, Lai – who is […]

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Russian court fines Twitter for failure to remove illegal content

Ihesiulo Grace 27 May 2021 0

A local court on Thursday fined Twitter 19 million rubles (about 259,000 U.S. dollars) for its failure to remove banned content. This includes calls for unauthorised protests, increasing fines on the company to 27.9 million rubles (380,000 U.S. dollars). Twitter was fined 8.9 million rubles (121,000 dollars) in early April for the same offence according […]

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Merkel and German state heads discuss extending vaccines to children

Ihesiulo Grace 27 May 2021 0

Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of the 16 German states met on Thursday to discuss future coronavirus vaccine strategies, including whether to offer jabs to children. German Health Minister, Jens Spahn, supports the idea of offering vaccines to children above age 12 as soon as possible. The European Medicines Agency must first agree to […]

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6 people in critical condition after trains collide in Kuala Lumpur

Ihesiulo Grace 25 May 2021 0

Six people are in critical condition in a Kuala Lumpur hospital after a driver’s negligence caused two trains to collide in Malaysia, according to the country’s Transport Minister, Wee Ka Siong. A statement by the ministry said that out of the 64 people who had been hospitalised late on Monday after the crash, 15 others […]

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Hong Kong suspends import of poultry products from bird flu-affected area

Ihesiulo Grace 25 May 2021 0

Hong Kong’s food safety authority, on Tuesday, decided to suspend the importation of poultry meat and products from bird flu-affected area in Poland. The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government’s Food and Environmental Hygiene Department said that the decision was made in view of a notification from […]