JAKARTA Experts in the Philippines are struggling to complete clinical trials on a vaccine to stop the spread of African swine flu, the Philippines News Agency reported on Thursday. The country is targeting a local African swine flu vaccine to be completed by 2023 or 2024. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said the results of the … Read more
AA / Texas New York State raised the age for the purchase of semi-automatic weapons from 18 to 21 on Monday, in response to a request from US President Joe Biden. New York Governor Kathy Hochul said “thoughts and prayers won’t solve the problem, but tough action will,” referring to the bill raising the purchase … Read more
GENEVA Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Ghebreyesus said Wednesday that more than 550 cases of monkeypox have been reported from 30 countries. WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus told a webinar from Geneva that the sudden appearance of monkeypox in many countries at the same time suggests that there may be transmission undetected for … Read more
AA / New York The “Turkevi Center”, “Turkish house” in downtown New York, USA, organized an event to present and discover Turkish cuisine. The activities of the “Turkish Cuisine Week” will take place under the leadership of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey, with the support of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, … Read more
AA/Washington US President Joe Biden has called the mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, an “act of domestic terrorism”. “What happened here is very clear: this is terrorism, this is an act of domestic terrorism,” Biden said at a press conference in Buffalo on Tuesday. Biden’s statements come after he met with … Read more
AA / Ankara / Ali Murat Alhas Turkey’s foreign minister is due to begin a four-day visit to New York on Tuesday to attend a global migration forum, the foreign ministry said Monday evening. Mevlut Cavusoglu will make an official visit to New York “to attend the first-ever International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) on the … Read more
AA/Istanbul US authorities announced on Wednesday the arrest of the man suspected of shooting in the New York subway on Tuesday morning, after the city police received a report about him. US channel CNN reported, quoting New York City authorities, that “police responded immediately to the report, located the suspect – Frank James -, arrested … Read more
AA / Washington / Michael Hernandez The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Monday condemned a hate crime targeting a Turkish national in Manhattan. “We condemn the attack on this young man and the hatred that appears to have inspired the perpetrator,” CAIR New York Legal Officer Ahmed Mohamed said in a statement, adding, “New … Read more
The health authorities of England enabled as of this Monday, March 21, the platform to schedule booster vaccines against the coronavirus (COVID-19) for people 75 years of age or older, residents of nursing homes and people in groups of risk. Within the framework of the vaccination program, called “spring booster”, the invitation will be sent … Read more
Belarusian Defense Minister Victor Khrenin assured on Monday that the military exercises that his country is carrying out in conjunction with Russia do not represent a “threat” to Ukraine. The official made the statement after a telephone conversation with his counterpart in Kiev, Oleksi Reznikov. Both ministers expressed, in the press release, their “conviction” that … Read more