A member of a men’s chorus group unintentionally drove a pick-up truck into fellow chorists at the start of a Pride parade in South Florida on Saturday, killing one member of the group and seriously injuring another, the group’s director has said, correcting initial speculation […]
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has said the assembly to draft a new constitution will hold its first session on July 4, as the South American country moves towards replacing its current conservative, dictatorship-era charter. The re-writing of the constitution is the result of a broad […]
Iran’s sole nuclear power plant has been temporarily shutdown for a “technical overhaul”, Iranian state TV has said. An official from the state electric energy company, Gholamali Rakhshanimehr, said on a talk show that the Bushehr plant shutdown began on Saturday and would last “for […]
US President Joe Biden will meet Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and the chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah at the White House on Friday to discuss the US troop withdrawal amid a surge in fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban […]
Jurgen Conings, the far-right Belgian soldier who sparked a huge manhunt last month when he went missing after stealing arms from a military base, “has been found dead”, the country’s defence minister and chief of staff said in a statement on Sunday. Prosecutors had earlier […]
At least 12 people have been killed as Tropical Depression Claudette swept across the southeastern US, causing flash flooding and spurring tornadoes that destroyed dozens of homes. Ten people, including nine children, were killed Saturday in a 15-vehicle crash about 35 miles (55 kilometres) south […]
Cuba’s Soberana 2 vaccine candidate has shown 62 percent efficacy with just two of its three doses, state-run biopharmaceutical corporation BioCubaFarma has said, citing preliminary data from late phase trials. Cuba, whose biotech sector has exported vaccines for decades, has five vaccine candidates in clinical […]
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has condemned the new Iranian president as a “hangman”, describing Ebrahim Raisi’s election win as a final “wake up” call for world powers before returning to a nuclear agreement with Tehran. Bennett made the comments on Sunday as he opened […]
Two Euro 2020 football matches in Hungary are being investigated for “potential discriminatory incidents”, UEFA said. The governing body of European football said on Sunday that a “UEFA ethics and disciplinary inspector has been appointed” to conduct an investigation, without providing any details on the […]
Government is blaming the Delta variant for latest jump in cases, but experts say policy failures are to blame. Article source: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2021/6/20/are-african-nations-doing-enough-to-curb-covid-19
