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Covid-19: Three Air NZ workers in isolation after colleague tests positive
That means zero new cases of the coronavirus in the community or in the country's managed isolation or quarantine facilities, the Ministry of Health confirmed this afternoon. According to The New York Times , the country has averaged more than 208,000 new cases per day, almost a 30% increase over the average two weeks ago. [Full Article...]
Historic US vaccine campaign begins with first shipments 'delivering hope' to millions
Healthcare workers and elderly residents of long-term care homes are first in line to receive the inoculations. President Trump's vaccine team, Operation Warp Speed, said the first batch will contain 2.9 million doses. More than 108,000 people are hospitalized for COVID-19 in the USA, meaning the average daily death toll of 2,300-plus could worsen. On Saturday, Johns Hopkins University recorde... [Full Article...]
India Farmers Intensify Protests As Deadlock over New Laws Continues
The farmers have been on roads in the cold weather trying to build pressure on the government to redress their grievances. According to the apex court website, a bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde and justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian will hear the plea filed by law student Rishabh Sharma, who has also sought directions to authorities to open the roads at Delhi's borders, shift the proteste... [Full Article...]
Gunman shot by police at NY cathedral Christmas concert
The man's name was withheld pending positive identification. The carolers were ending their singing around 3:45 p.m. when an unidentified man opened fire near the doors of the church, Shea told reporters at a news conference. "The shooter could have killed a lot of people". "Our Carols for the Community event this afternoon was interrupted by an armed individual, who set off a round of gunfire... [Full Article...]
Israel, Bhutan establish diplomatic relations
While Israel and Bhutan have not had formal ties, the two sides cooperate on development activities and agricultural training and Israel's Agency for International Development Cooperation MASHAV has trained hundred of Bhutanese youth since 2013. [Full Article...]
Trump supporters protest election in Washington
Conservative groups that allege without evidence that US president-elect Joe Biden stole the USA election from Donald Trump are planning protests nationwide on Saturday, including a Washington rally headlined by Trump's recently pardoned former national security adviser. [Full Article...]
Agricultural reforms will increase farmers' income, says PM amid protests
When we'll think of the Corona period a few years later, perhaps we won't be able to believe it. The Prime Minister said that India's economic indicators now look encouraging and credit for the recovery goes to entrepreneurs, youth, farmers, industrialists and citizens. [Full Article...]
Iran Says Morocco Israel Deal 'Betrayal of Islam'
The news made Morocco the fourth nation to normalise ties with Tel Aviv, after Sudan declared official normalisation of relations with Israel and a halt to any aggression with the Jewish state in October. In 1975 the Spanish abandoned the former colony and Morocco laid claim to it. The recognition by the United States of the alleged sovereignty of Morocco over Western Sahara constitutes a flagra... [Full Article...]