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Hong Kong's First Covid-19 Lockdown Exposes Deep-Rooted Inequality

The city's notorious tenement apartments are potential hotbeds of transmission, with their cramped quarters, faulty piping and poor ventilation.
Indian media push own vaccine campaign while smearing others

Under the name of clarifying the so-called smears, the TOI was attempting to prove the Indian vaccine outweighs that of China with a series of other pieces actually defaming Chinese vaccines. The article started ...
Orthodox Protesters in Israel Burn Bus as Riots Against COVID Restrictions Continue

By Ben Sales. A mob of Orthodox Jews torched a bus in Israel amid ongoing riots protesting the country's COVID-19 restrictions. Police officers in other cities were also injured during riots in Orthodox neighborhoods, where COVID-19 rates have spiked but ...
US Statement at the Universal Periodic Review of Rwanda

The United States warmly welcomes the Rwandan delegation. We recommend that Rwanda: Promote the right to freedom of expression by ending detentions and harassment of members of the ...
Estonia: Government led by nation's first woman PM sworn in

Newly appointed Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas speaks at the Estonian Parliament, in Tallinn, Estonia, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. Estonias new two-party coalition government has been sworn in with the first female prime minister since the Baltic country ...
Officials say Israeli minister visited Sudan to discuss ties

Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen, head pf the Israeli delegation, met with Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of the ruling sovereign council, Defense Minister Yassin Ibrahim and other military and government officials. Sudan ...
Taliban backs Afghan vaccine drive after COVAX pledges $112 million

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents on Tuesday gave their backing to a vaccination programme to which the World Health Organization's COVAX programme has pledged $112 million. Slideshow ( 2 images ). Announcing the funding, an ...
UK sends humanitarian team to support Mozambique following devastating Cyclone Eloise

The UK is providing up to £1 million of emergency UK aid and a team of relief workers on the ground to get help to those affected by devastating Cyclone Eloise, Minister for Africa James Duddridge announced today (Tuesday 26 January). The funding will ...
India slammed for awarding perished soldiers amid latest China-India military talks

Chinese experts blasted India for escalating tensions after India has reportedly awarded soldiers who died in a conflict with Chinese soldiers in Galwan Valley in June 2020. Indian media reported the awarding on Monday night, the day the ninth round of the ...
Duopharma to supply 6.4 million doses of Sputnix V vaccine

The supply is subject to the “Sputnik V” vaccine being approved by Drug Control Authority, Malaysia through technical evaluation by the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency. Duopharma told Bursa Malaysia today that it has ...