Interpol expects ‘dramatic’ jump in crime over vaccine shipments
Author: AFP ID: 1608543191049919500 Mon, 2020-12-21 09:27 BERLIN: Interpol chief Juergen Stock predicted Monday a sharp rise in crimes with robbers seeking to get...
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No evidence Pfizer vaccine won’t work against new strain: EMA chief
Author: AFP ID: 1608560705981118700 Mon, 2020-12-21 14:21 THE HAGUE: The head of the EU’s medicines regulator said Monday it appeared the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine would...
Indian farmers start hunger strike to pressure Modi on reforms
Author: Reuters ID: 1608543707839947600 Mon, 2020-12-21 09:34 Farmers leaders sought to step up pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to repeal three agricultural reform...
Gargantuan chunk of ‘cosmic web’ discovered. It’s 50 million light-years long.
Astronomers discover one of the longest filaments of the cosmic web. And it may help solve the puzzle of the universe’s missing matter.
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned
A Russian agent sent to tail opposition leader Alexey Navalny has revealed how he was poisoned in August — with the lethal nerve agent...
Boris Johnson to hold crisis meeting amid chaotic fallout from new coronavirus variant
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was due to chair an emergency meeting with ministers Monday after the announcement of a potentially fast-spreading new coronavirus...
Cancer survivor explains why vulnerable need vaccine sooner
Millions of clinically vulnerable adults in the UK, some of whom only have a few months or years left to live, sit further down...
Ugandas School Plan for Refugee Children Could Become a Global Template
KAMPALA/KIKUBE/RWAMWANJA, Uganda, Dec 21 (IPS) – Thirteen-year-old Wita Kasanganjo is a pupil at Maratatu Primary School in the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement based in Uganda’s...
How to watch tonight’s ‘great conjunction’ of Jupiter and Saturn
Here’s how to catch the great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, something that hasn’t happened this spectacularly in nearly 800 years.
A Pakistani Farmer is Using Technology to Stop Agricultural Exploitation
AMMAN, Jordan, Dec 21 (IPS) – Anas Shaikh is a Pakistani farmer on a mission to bring solutions to the many difficulties small and...
Ebola response faces setback as transit centre burns down in DR Congo camp 
Nepal floods threaten jobs and livelihoods beyond disaster zone: ILO 
Caring for Carers: Addressing Workplace Violence Against Nurses in Malaysia 
Palestinians yearn for ‘a return to normal life,’ says top Middle East peace envoy