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Amazon shuts down construction site after noose found


May 22, 2021

WINDSOR Connecticut, US): Amazon temporarily shut down a warehouse construction site in Connecticut on Friday after a noose was found hanging over a beam, the seventh in a series of incidents police called potential hate crimes. A rope tied like a noose was discovered on Wednesday at the site in Windsor, 16 kilometres north of Hartford, prompting an intensified law …

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Pharma firms, G20 pledge 3.6bn doses for poor nations


May 22, 2021

ROME: Coronavirus vaccine producers promised billions of doses for poor countries at a G20 health summit on Friday, where leaders vowed to expand access to jabs as the only way to end the pandemic. The bosses of Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson announced they would supply around 3.5 billion vaccine doses at cost or discount to low- and middle-income …

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Canada extends India, Pakistan flight ban over pandemic


May 22, 2021

OTTAWA: A Canadian ban on direct passenger flights from India and Pakistan after increased Covid-19 cases were detected in travellers arriving from these countries was extended on Friday until June 21. The measure, first announced on April 22, was set to expire on Saturday (today). “Our battle against Covid-19 continues,” Transportation Minister Omar Alghabra told a news conference. “On April 22 …

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Downing of Ukrainian plane in Iran was ‘act of terrorism’, rules Canadian court


May 22, 2021

OTTAWA: A Canadian court ruled on Thursday that the downing of a Ukrainian airliner in Iran last year was deliberate and an “act of terrorism”, paving the way for possible compensation for victims’ families. Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice found that “on a balance of probabilities” two missile strikes on the plane, belonging to the Ukraine International Airlines (UIA), shortly …

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India faces shortage of anti-fungal drug as rare disease adds to its woes


May 22, 2021

BENGALURU: India said on Friday it was working to alleviate a shortage of a medicine used to treat a rare fungal disease hitting Covid patients as its healthcare system reels under a massive wave of coronavirus infections. Cases of mucormycosis, or “black fungus”, a potentially serious condition that causes blurred or double vision, chest pain and breathing difficulties, have surged …

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Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal nearly out of Covid vaccines


May 22, 2021

DHAKA: Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka are close to running out of coronavirus vaccines, authorities said on Friday, and are hoping China and Russia will bolster their South Asia’s efforts to tackle the devastating pandemic wave. The three countries are counting on vaccine campaigns to head off the next surge. But India’s move last month to ban vaccine exports because …

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Ceasefire holding in Gaza as international aid arrives


May 22, 2021

The ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian fighters in Gaza was holding on Saturday, as humanitarian aid began to enter the Israeli-blockaded enclave ravaged by 11 days of aerial bombardment by the Israeli military. As thousands of displaced Palestinians returned to their homes, international focus turned to the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, shattered by Israeli air strikes. In Jerusalem, however, …

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China’s Mars rover starts roaming the Red Planet


May 22, 2021

China’s Mars rover drove from its landing platform and began exploring the surface on Saturday, state-run Xinhua news agency said, making the country only the second nation to land and operate a rover on the Red Planet. The launch last July of the Tianwen-1 Mars probe, which carried the Zhurong rover, marked a major milestone in China’s space programme. Tianwen-1 …

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Greta Thunberg aims to change how food is produced


May 22, 2021

STOCKHOLM: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has set her sights on changing how the world produces and consumes food in order to counteract a trio of threats: carbon emissions, disease outbreaks and animal suffering. In a video posted on Twitter on Saturday, Thunberg said the environmental impact of farming as well as disease outbreaks such as COVID-19, which is believed …

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