AFP extension ANNOUNCEMENTS•today, 12:50 Much of the United States will experience arctic conditions in the coming days. The American Meteorological Institute warns against this. Until Christmas, the cold is rampant in the country and in some places snowfalls and winter thunderstorms are possible. It could be the coldest Christmas in the country in decades. About … Read more
A dengue vaccine developed in Brazil has shown an average efficacy of 79.6% in phase three clinical trials, official sources said amid an explosion of cases of the disease in the country. The results were obtained from the follow-up of 16,235 volunteers from all over Brazil over two years, reported the Butantan Institute in São … Read more
AFP extension ANNOUNCEMENTS•today, 03:09 Portions of former US President Trump’s tax returns will become publicly available. A House of Representatives committee approved it. These are the returns from 2015 to 2020. The vote marks the tentative conclusion of a long legal battle. Trump has been trying for years to block the release of his tax … Read more
Al-Marsad Newspaper – Agencies: Kuwaiti prosecutors said they had recovered $100 million worth of assets and money from Bahrain, in implementation of a court ruling issued against a citizen and his wife who were convicted in a serious case of corruption. Corruption issues The prosecutor said in a tweet on Twitter that this step was … Read more
José Gómez Rial, immunologist: “In healthy people, the benefit will be low. We are talking about avoiding severe covid, and you can already avoid it with the three doses” Lorenzo Armenteros, SEMG spokesman: “This vaccine includes the new variants and that simple differential fact is an additional protection advantage” In the over 60s, ‘pandemic fatigue’ … Read more
Taiwan is probably the most heavily attacked target of the hybrid warfare worldwide, Wu said in an interview with Tamedia newspapers published on Saturday. “I know that many European countries, including Switzerland, have suffered disinformation campaigns and hybrid wars.” Taiwan and Switzerland shared the same democratic values and had extensive economic ties. China’s growing influence … Read more
EPA ANNOUNCEMENTS•today, 20:20 Interest rates in the US continue to rise, but at a slower pace than before. The US central bank, the Fed, raises its key rate by 0.5 percentage points, bringing it to a bandwidth of 4.25 and 4.5 percent. It is the sixth rate hike this year. Over the past four times, … Read more
The web appointment for the vaccination of children under 5 against the flu through the Murciasalud portal and the mobile application has been operational since today, Monday 12 December. The Murciano Health Service (SMS) has contacted all health areas, the regional government reports in a press release, so that, as far as possible, agendas are … Read more
Unlike other countries in the region, Argentina has yet to release any news on the bivalent vaccine against covid. This is the formula that in some countries of the world is already applied against of the variants: the ancestor of Wuhan and the last one known so far, omicron. The laboratories that market them are … Read more
This was decided on Saturday by the president of Parliament Roberta Metsola, as announced by one of her spokeswomen. Only Parliament itself can decide to remove Kaili from the position of vice president. The background to the decision are the investigations by the Belgian judiciary into alleged bribery and corruption, money laundering and attempts to … Read more