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Indian PM Modi announces free COVID-19 vaccines for all adults
Published On: June 7, 2021 07:35 PM NPT By: Republica
NEW DELHI, June 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that the Indian federal government would provide COVID-19 vaccines free of charge to all adults from later this month in an effort to turn the tide of a pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands in India.
Hundreds of former leaders urge G7 to vaccinate poor against COVID-19
Published On: June 7, 2021 09:41 AM NPT By: Reuters
UK, June 7: One hundred former presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers have urged the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations to pay for global coronavirus vaccinations to help stop the virus mutating and returning as a worldwide threat.
At least 132 civilians killed in Burkina Faso’s worst attack in years
Published On: June 6, 2021 02:09 PM NPT By: Reuters
BURKINA FASO, June 6: The death toll from the worst militant attack in Burkina Faso in recent years has risen to 132, the government said on Saturday, after armed assailants laid siege overnight to a village in the jihadist-plagued northeast.
UK's Johnson calls on G7 to vaccinate world by end of 2022
Published On: June 6, 2021 08:20 AM NPT By: Reuters
UNITED KINGDOM, June 6: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday called for leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations to make a commitment to vaccinate the entire world against COVID-19 by the end of 2022 when they meet in Britain next week.
Tech giants and tax havens targeted by historic G7 deal
Published On: June 6, 2021 07:19 AM NPT By: Reuters
UNITED KINGDOM, June 6: The United States, Britain and other large, rich nations reached a landmark deal on Saturday to squeeze more money out of multinational companies such as Amazon and Google and reduce their incentive to shift profits to low-tax offshore havens.
Nigeria says it suspends Twitter days after president’s post removed
Published On: June 5, 2021 02:37 PM NPT By: Reuters
NIGERIA, June 5: Nigeria said on Friday it had indefinitely suspended Twitter’s activities, two days after the social media giant removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened to punish regional secessionists.
Facebook suspends Trump until 2023, shifts rules for world leaders
Published On: June 5, 2021 01:31 PM NPT By: Republica
CALIFORNIA, June 5: Facebook Inc on Friday suspended former U.S. President Donald Trump until at least January 2023 and announced changes to how it will treat world leaders who break the rules on its site.
Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine gains China approval for emergency use in children, adolescents
Published On: June 5, 2021 07:07 AM NPT By: Reuters
BEIJING, June 5: China has approved emergency use of Sinovac Biotech's (SVA.O) COVID-19 vaccine in people aged between three and 17, its chairman Yin Weidong told state TV late on Friday.
Pence: I’ll likely never see eye to eye with Trump on Jan. 6
Published On: June 4, 2021 07:19 PM NPT By: Associated Press
MANCHESTER, N.H., June 4: Former Vice President Mike Pence says that he isn’t sure that he and former President Donald Trump will ever see “eye to eye” over what happened on Jan. 6 but that he would “always be proud of what we accomplished for the American people over the last four years.”
Australian media fined $840,000 for gag order breach in Pell sex assault case
Published On: June 4, 2021 01:45 PM NPT By: Reuters
AUSTRALIA, June 4: An Australian court on Friday ordered a dozen media firms to pay a total of A$1.1 million ($842,000) in fines for breaching a suppression order on reporting the conviction, since overturned, of former Vatican treasurer George Pell for child sexual assault.
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