AstraZeneca’s preventative COVID-19 shot shown to work longer-term
Nov 18, 2021 AstraZeneca on Thursday cemented its lead in bringing a preventative COVID-19 shot for the non-infected to market for people who do not respond well to vaccines, saying…
COVID vaccines not linked to menstrual changes, goes together with flu shots
Nov. 16, 2021 The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to…
Pope thanks journalists for helping expose Church sex scandals
Nov. 13, 2021 Pope Francis on Saturday thanked journalists for helping uncover the clerical sexual abuse scandals that the Roman Catholic Church initially tried to cover up. The pope praised…
Britain suggests climate funding plan as UN negotiators go into overtime
Nov. 13, 2021 Negotiators took the two-week U.N. climate talks in Scotland into an extra day on Saturday, wrestling with a fresh draft of an agreement intended to give the…
U.S. top diplomat Blinken to visit Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal next week
Nov 12, 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal from Nov. 15-20, the State Department said on Thursday. In Nairobi, Blinken will meet…
Exposed: 17 UK MPs claim £1.3m in rent from taxpayer while letting their own homes
November 12, 2021 Five ministers have put rent on expenses while collecting on homes they own in London Five ministers in Boris Johnson’s government are among a group of MPs…
World powers meet to push for elections in Libya
Nov 12, 2021 World powers meet in France on Friday to push for elections in Libya by year-end and endorse efforts to remove foreign forces from the oil-producing nation despite…
Moderna offers COVID-19 shot at $7 to African Union – Africa CDC
Nov 12, 2021 Moderna Inc has offered to sell its COVID-19 vaccines to the African Union at $7 a shot, head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control John Nkengasong…
Diabetes problem makes Africa more vulernable to COVID-19 death – WHO
Nov. 11, 2021 Death rates from COVID-19 infections are much higher in patients with diabetes in Africa, where the number of people with diabetes is growing rapidly, the World Health…
COVID-19 : Ten states sue Biden administration over vaccine mandate for U.S. health workers
Nov 11, 2021 Ten Republican state attorneys general sued on Wednesday to stop the Biden administration’s requirement that millions of U.S. health workers get vaccinated against the coronavirus, saying it…