November 29, 2021
President Biden urges calm over Omicron fears
US President Joe Biden has called the Omicron Covid variant a "cause for concern, not a cause for panic" one day after it was detected in North America. Cases have been found in Canada, and his speech from the White House comes as US travel bans on…
November 28, 2021
13 tested positive for the new Covid variant Omicron from South Africa
The new coronavirus variant Omicron has been detected in 13 people who arrived in the Dutch capital Amsterdam on two flights from South Africa. They are among 61 passengers who tested positive for coronavirus.It comes as tighter restrictions come…
November 26, 2021
Sweden’s first female PM resigns hours into post
The newly-elected Prime Minister of Sweden resigned on Wednesday, less than twelve hours after taking office. Magdalena Andersson, the country's first female leader, led a government ruled by a two-party minority coalition. But an early fracture in…
November 26, 2021
Thousands of Mexican women march in protest against violence
Thousands of women marched through the Mexican capital and scuffled with police on Thursday demanding an end to femicide and other gender-based violence in the Latin American country. "They didn't die. They killed them," read one of the banners…
November 26, 2021
Australia investigates new COVID-19 variant found in South Africa
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Friday said it was investigating the newly identified COVID-19 variant spreading in South Africa and warned it may close its borders to travellers from the African nation if risks from the new strain rise. South…
November 24, 2021
Europe region faces 700,000 more deaths by March – WHO
A further 700,000 people could die of Covid by March in Europe and parts of Asia, the World Health Organization has warned. The death toll already exceeds 1.5 million in the 53 countries of what the WHO terms as its Europe region.The WHO warned of…
November 22, 2021
Protests spark across US after Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal
Demonstrations sprang up nationwide in protest of the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict Friday night, after a Wisconsin jury found the 18-year-old not guilty for killing two men and wounding another during the political unrest in Kenosha last summer. In…
November 17, 2021
Conviction of two men to be squashed in regards to Malcom X’s 1965 assassination.
A senior US prosecutor says two men convicted of the murder in 1965 of the US civil rights leader Malcolm X are to have their convictions quashed.Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam did not get the justice they deserved, the Manhattan District Attorney…
November 16, 2021
Republicans attend Biden’s infrastructure bill signing
President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law on Monday, the largest such spending legislation since the "New Deal" that was signed by President Franklin Roosevelt nearly 90 years ago. To mark the occasion, a…
November 14, 2021
Climate deal sounds the death for coal power according to – UK.PM
The Glasgow climate deal is a "game-changing agreement" which sounds "the death knell for coal power", Boris Johnson says.Although countries only agreed to "phase down" rather than "phase out" coal, the prime minister said this was a fantastic…