AstraZeneca COVID jab ‘less effective against S Africa variant’
Al Jazeera :The COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford appeared to offer only limited protection against mild disease caused by the...
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UAE spies monitored Michelle Obama, Sheikha Moza emails: Report
New York Times :UAE spies hacked devices belonging to Qatar’s royal family and intercepted private communications between then-US First Lady Michelle Obama and Her Highness...
Palestinian rivals Fatah, Hamas to discuss elections
AFP :The key Palestinian factions – Fatah, which controls the West Bank, and Gaza’s Hamas Islamists – plan to meet in Cairo this week to...
US warship sails near Chinese-controlled Paracel Islands
Reuters :A US warship has sailed near the Chinese-controlled Paracel Islands in the disputed South China Sea in a freedom of navigation operation, the US...
95-year-old Nazi death camp secretary charged with complicity in 10,000 murders
CNN:A former secretary of a Nazi camp has been charged with the murders of 10,000 people, German prosecutors said on Friday.She worked at the Stutthof...
Denmark moves forward on North Sea ‘energy island’
AFP :Denmark says it has approved plans to build an artificial island in the North Sea that could generate wind power for at least three...
UAE drastically cut funding for Palestinian refugee agency
Al Jazeera :The United Arab Emirates drastically reduced its funding to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in 2020, the year it signed a...
New Zealand probes new COVID case linked to quarantine facility
Reuters :New Zealand health authorities said on Saturday they were investigating a new community coronavirus infection, the fourth in two weeks among people who completed...
Libyans select surprise candidate for interim PM
AFP :Libyan delegates at UN-led talks outside Geneva on Friday made the surprise choice of Abdul Hamid Dbeibah as prime minister of a transitional unity...
Blinken presses China on Myanmar, Uighurs, HK in first call
AFP :US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed Beijing on its treatment of Uighurs, Tibetans, Hong Kong and the coup in Myanmar in the first...
125 missing in floods
Online DeskAbout 125 people were missing in northern India after a Himalayan glacier broke and swept away a small hydroelectric dam on Sunday, with floods...
Taiwan condemns ‘evil’ China after Guyana scraps trade office
AFP :Taiwan on Friday accused Beijing of pressuring Guyana into terminating a deal with the island to set up a trade office, saying it highlighted...