Thursday, April 18, 2024
Covid-19: Netherlands suspend use of AstraZeneca vaccine

Covid-19: Netherlands suspend use of AstraZeneca vaccine

The Netherlands has become the latest country to suspend use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine over concerns about possible side effects. The Dutch government said the move, which will...
Japan court rules same-sex marriage ban ‘unconstitutional’

Japan court rules same-sex marriage ban ‘unconstitutional’

Landmark decision from Sapporo court seen as major victory for LGBTQ community with other cases pending. A Japanese district court on Wednesday ruled that not allowing same-sex couples to...
'Nothing to live on' - trying to hold on as pandemic guts tourism

‘Nothing to live on’ – trying to hold on as pandemic guts tourism

Mishmash of restrictions and quarantines globally obscure outlook for those whose livelihoods are tied to tourism. With no American visitors to show around the D-Day beaches or the Loire...
YouTube deletes 30,000 vaccine misinfo videos

YouTube deletes 30,000 vaccine misinfo videos

YouTube has removed more than 30,000 misleading Covid-19 vaccination videos in the past five months, it said. A YouTube spokeswoman said the videos contradicted vaccine information from the World...
Indians travelling to US for business or pleasure exempt from proposed visa bonds

Indians travelling to US for business or pleasure exempt from proposed visa bonds

The Trump administration has introduced via a ‘temporary final rule’ a visa-bond pilot program where applications from certain countries travelling to the US for business or as tourists will have to furnish...
Relief to Indian students as Trump administration agrees to revoke student visa curbs

Relief to Indian students as Trump administration agrees to revoke student visa curbs

Indians are the second-largest student community with over 200,000 students or a fifth of the one million foreign students taking up courses in the US. The Donald Trump administration...
US House poised to vote on reversing Trump's Muslim ban

US House poised to vote on reversing Trump’s Muslim ban

The 'NO BAN Act' has broad support among Democratic lawmakers and is likely to pass despite Republican opposition. The United States House of Representatives is set to vote on...
Chinese state media editor-in-chief asks if US is 'mentally retarded'

Chinese state media editor-in-chief asks if US is ‘mentally retarded’

Xu Xijin has established himself over the years as a hardline defender of the Chinese Communist Party The editor-in-chief for The Global Times, a state-funded newspaper in China, asked...
US accuses Russia of testing anti-satellite weapon in space

US accuses Russia of testing anti-satellite weapon in space

The US and UK are accusing Russia of launching a projectile from a satellite, threatening peaceful use of outer space. The United States accused Russia on Thursday of conducting...
Twitter Launches New Initiatives to Tackle Misinformation Ahead of Assembly Elections in India

Twitter Launches New Initiatives to Tackle Misinformation Ahead of Assembly Elections in India

The new initiatives on Twitter will be in six languages — English, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Assamese, and Malayalam. Twitter on Monday announced a series of initiatives that it says...

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