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Joe Biden's Press Secretary Jen Psaki Throws Some Shade At Trump
I'm not sure who that is. At the same time, should the US Congress or law enforcement need these records, they might try to get limited access to them. " Jen Psaki needs to immediately apologize to the men and women of the Space Force for this disgraceful comment". Psaki said there are estimates of between 600 to 700 children that are still separated from their parents and the task force wi... [Full Article...]
Palestine Receives 10,000 Doses of Russian Sputnik V Vaccine
Reddy's laboratories. The study follows a phase 3 trial in Moscow hospitals and clinics that included almost 22,000 participants age 18 and older. Health workers getting against COVID-19 with the Sputnik V vaccine in Buenos Aires on 2 February 2021. [Full Article...]
Auto crash victim successfully receives new face, both hands
There have only been two previous attempts to complete such a surgery - to transplant a patient's face and both hands - worldwide. The first attempt was in 2009 on a patient in Paris who died about a month later from complications. Then during the search for a donor, the pandemic hit and organ donations plummeted. During New York City's surge, members of the transplant unit were reassigned to ... [Full Article...]
Twitter restores several accounts it had ‘withheld’ over farmer protest tweets
The other accounts that were initially withheld included those of CPM politician Mohd Salim, farm organisation BKU Ekta Ugrahan and Tractor2Twitter. He said the ministry has neither been transparent nor respected the rights. "Censoring press on social media is not okay". Singer Rihanna, who has more followers on Twitter than any Indian actor or politician, tweeted a CNN news story on Tuesday abo... [Full Article...]
Myanmar coup: UN Security Council takes no action
China's subdued response to the military coup in Myanmar could be taking into Chinese economic interests in the Southeast Asian nation. Describing the turn of events as surprising and shocking, Burgener called for the state of emergency to be repealed and for the detained leaders to be released. [Full Article...]
Tokyo Olympics 2020 chief sparks controversy with sexist remarks
The president of the organizing committee, Yoshiro Mori, reportedly made some questionable comments when asked about adding more women to the committee during a meeting on Wednesday. Everyone ends up saying something". He was speaking at Wednesday's meeting of the Japanese Olympic Committee. Almost 80 per cent of the Japanese public opposes holding the Games as scheduled in July, according to ... [Full Article...]
Senate confirms controversial Biden pick as DHS secretary
As secretary of the sprawling agency, Mayorkas will oversee a 240,000-employee department responsible for border security, immigration enforcement, cybersecurity and disaster readiness and relief, among other missions. He was born in Havana and came to the United States when he was about a year old with his family, moving first to Florida and then California. McConnell said Mayorkas does not des... [Full Article...]
Pentagon, stumped by extremism in ranks, orders stand-down in next 60 days
And he ordered all committee members who were appointed by the defense secretary to resign no later than February 16. They were replaced by former Republican candidate Newt Gingrich, who is considered a hawk, and former General Anthony Tata, who became a Fox News commentator and became famous for his anti-Islam tweets. [Full Article...]