Month: December 2020

Read More On Dec. 13, the Detroit Free Press posted a video on its Twitter feed. I didn’t expect to get emotional watching it. The shaky clip, shot by someone holding a smartphone, showed UPS and FedEx semitrailer trucks carrying the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccines, pulling out of the parking lot of Pfizer’s…

Read More It has enough Covid-19 vaccine doses to immunize its population three times over, so New Zealand’s giving some to its neighbors. Twitter reacted with adulation, but some think the Kiwis simply had it too easy with the infection. This week, the government of New Zealand announced it has pre-purchased additional quantities of Covid-19…

Read MoreThe new variant that spreads more rapidly has also been found in the Netherlands, Denmark and Australia.The new variant that spreads more rapidly has also been found in the Netherlands, Denmark and Australia.

Read More Health secretary’s remarks follow chaotic scenes at London railway stations on Saturday before new measures took effect Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Police will be asked to stop families from driving out of tier 4 areas, the health secretary has said, while extra officers will be deployed at railway…

Read More Skepticism about the newly authorized coronavirus vaccines pervades Native American communities even as the death toll mounts. Skepticism about the newly authorized coronavirus vaccines pervades Native American communities even as the death toll mounts.

Read More Donald Trump was elected partly on his fame for “The Art of the Deal,” yet he’s cut no big deals in office. The relief package is the latest, perhaps final, example. Donald Trump was elected partly on his fame for “The Art of the Deal,” yet he’s cut no big deals in office.…

Read More Champions of herd immunity once lauded the Nordic refuseniks. All that has changed now Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage “Thanks for reminding me,” Sweden’s state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell replied deadpan when the Observer asked in late March how he handled the knowledge that he would be to blame if…

Read More Professor warns of ‘political agenda’ to discredit researchers exploring slavery links The academic at the centre of an escalating row over the National Trust’s efforts to explore links between its properties and colonialism has warned of a “political agenda” to “misrepresent, mischaracterise, malign and intimidate” those involved in the project. Professor Corinne Fowler…

Read More The two leaders say they share a desire to address the reasons for migration in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and southern Mexico The two leaders say they share a desire to address the reasons for migration in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and southern Mexico

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Read More Throngs of travellers congregated at London’s St Pancras train station on Saturday 19 December as they sought to flee the city before it was placed in tier 4 at midnight. Swaths of south-east England were placed in the new highest tier as Boris Johnson abandoned attempts to relax Covid restrictions over Christmas to…

Read More Former Minister and Secretary General of UNCTAD, Rubens Ricupero, discusses Brazilian foreign policy and diplomacy, today’s environmental agenda, and the Real Plan.Former Minister and Secretary General of UNCTAD, Rubens Ricupero, discusses Brazilian foreign policy and diplomacy, today’s environmental agenda, and the Real Plan.

Read More Leaders fear Donald Trump and Israel will act against Iran and Hezbollah before Joe Biden’s arrival For the past four years, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has fought a war in Syria, supported Iraqi forces and stage-managed the politics of its homeland, all the while trying to avoid facing off with Israel. Yet…

Read MoreThe ex-Vatican treasurer was acquitted of child sexual abuse and released from prison this year.The ex-Vatican treasurer was acquitted of child sexual abuse and released from prison this year.

Read More The outgoing US president has his eyes on a Saudi Arabia-Israel accord – no matter who gets hurt Peace deals that entrench injustice, punish the weak and are propelled by greed, blackmail and weapons sales have precious little to do with peace – and are unlikely to endure. Yet the Middle East has…

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Read More The U.S. Department of Defense has contracted American plane-maker Boeing for engineering work on B-1B Lancer and B-52H Stratofortress strategic bomber aircraft. According to the U.S. Department of Defense contract announcements, Aerospace giant Boeing was awarded a modification to contract from the U.S. Air Force for B-1 and B-52 bomber engineering services. The deal…

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Read More The two maintained a strong working relationship in the Senate – but now it will face a new test when Biden is sworn as president When they were both in the Senate, Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, maintained a strong working relationship that survived some of the most partisan…

Read More If Boris Johnson strikes a free trade deal with Brussels, deciding whether to back it won’t be easy for many parliamentarians When MPs adjourned for Christmas on Thursday, after what the deputy speaker Nigel Evans described as an “awful year”, they were all aware that their festive break might be interrupted at any…

Read More More than 30 Brexiter Tories could withhold support if Boris Johnson gives significant ground More than 30 pro-Brexit Tory MPs are privately threatening to withhold support for a UK-EU free trade deal if Boris Johnson is forced into any significant last-minute compromises to avoid a no-deal Brexit. According to several senior MPs on…

Read More A driver has gone on the rampage and repeatedly crashed his truck into a hospital, forcing staff to run for their lives. The attack was reportedly prompted by an argument over the treatment of the perpetrator’s relatives. The incident took place on Friday. Security camera footage, published by ANI. shows a white truck…

Read MoreThe death toll from a powerful cyclone that battered the Pacific island nation of Fiji last week has risen to four with one missingThe death toll from a powerful cyclone that battered the Pacific island nation of Fiji last week has risen to four with one missing

Read More As the police search for Esther Dingley winds down in the Pyrenees, the theories around her disappearance multiply Police in Spain have begun scaling back the search for a British hiker missing in the Pyrenees, almost a month after she disappeared without a trace. Sharing an update of their investigation into the puzzling…

Read More The actor on discovering hiking, choosing dessert and attending church online What gets you up? Three rabidly hungry dogs demanding to be fed – it’s the same every morning here in Los Angeles. Normally we’d head to church, although now we’re attending virtually. It remains a surreal way to take part in such…

Read More Campaigners say the deals revealed in new report are a breach of firms’ human rights responsibilities Human rights groups are demanding that two of Britain’s biggest banks explain why they have lent tens of millions of pounds to a technology company building a telecoms network that is part-owned and used by the Myanmar…

Read More In an exclusive interview as his wife faces her fifth Christmas as a prisoner, Richard Ratcliffe tells why he fears even the end of her sentence won’t see her freed It was after they had decorated the Christmas tree that Gabriella Ratcliffe started crying herself to sleep again. “She has been quite tearful…

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Read More SUBSCRIBE HERE to have It’s Not Just You, a new newsletter by Susanna Schrobsdorff, TIME Editor at Large, delivered to your inbox weekly. (A version of this article appeared in this week’s It’s Not Just You.) 🌞 Well hello! I’m so glad you’re here. This week, we have some thoughts on the winter…

Read More Victorian premier Daniel Andrews will declare all of Sydney and the NSW Central Coast a Covid-19 red zone from midnight tonight, meaning people who live in or have visited those areas since 11 December will not be allowed to enter the state. The state’s chief medical officer Brett Sutton says the measure is…

Read More Arrest of Pakistanis held on suspicion of inciting attacker comes after court convicts 14 people linked to 2015 terrorist massacre French authorities have charged and detained four Pakistanis suspected of links to a meat cleaver attack by a compatriot outside the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo weekly that wounded two people, the…

Read More Member for Richmond for nearly 30 years influenced Coalition policies for much of the 1970s and 80s A former deputy prime minister and Nationals leader Doug Anthony has died, aged 90, in a rest home in north-east New South Wales. He died peacefully in the Heritage Lodge aged-care home in Murwillumbah on Sunday…

Read MoreThe US president-elect says the team will lead his “ambitious plan” to combat climate change.The US president-elect says the team will lead his “ambitious plan” to combat climate change.

Read More New border measures have been introduced as Sydney’s northern beaches Covid cluster continues to grow. Here’s what we know about the current rules Follow our global live blog NSW Covid hotspots As the coronavirus cluster on Sydney’s northern beaches grows, other states and territories have introduced a range of border closures and restrictions.…

Read More Police say another daughter called for help after seeing her father and sister in trouble A man and his daughter have drowned in the Murrumbidgee River in the ACT. Police were called to a swimming hole south of Canberra, the Tharwa Sandwash, about 2.20pm on Saturday after receiving reports that people were in…