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(Bloomberg) — A group of anti-vaccination demonstrators and conspiracy theorists have blocked roads and targeted businesses in the Australian capital of Canberra ahead of the return of federal parliament on Tuesday, in an echo of similar protests in Canada. Hundreds of cars and trucks waving Australian flags, military insignia and campaign banners for former U.S. President Donald Trump descended on the city over the past week calling for the end to vaccination requirements in businesses and places of employment. Demonstrators blocked roads around the airport on Sunday when politicians and their staff were returning to Canberra from around the country…

A plane carrying a few dozen elite U.S. troops arrived on Sunday in Poland near its border with Ukraine after President Biden ordered the deployment of troops to Eastern Europe amid mounting fears of a possible Russian invasion. © Associated Press/Czarek Sokolowski Dozens of elite US troops land in Poland Hundreds more from the 82nd Airborne Division are expected to arrive at Rzeszow-Jasionka airport in the coming days, as the Pentagon has said about 1,700 troops will deploy to Poland, according to The Associated Press. “Our national contribution here in Poland shows our solidarity with all of our allies here in Europe and,…

Bauchi State’s longest serving traditional ruler, the Emir of Jama’are, Ahmad Wabi III, is dead. He died on Sunday at the age of 95 after ruling for 50 years. © Getty Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari poses as he arrives for the 75th anniversary celebrations of The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on November 12, 2021. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)He has since been buried according to Islamic rites. The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said the death of the…

Wayne Rooney has spoken openly about his struggles as a player (Amazon Prime)  (PA Media) Wayne Rooney has laid bare the issues with anger and mental health that punctuated his career. Nobody has scored more goals for Manchester United or England, yet there was a feeling of what could have been after the 36-year-old retired to take the managerial post at Derby this time last year. Rooney burst onto the scene in stunning fashion at Euro 2004 and swiftly became one of the world’s best players, with the generational talent now opening up on how he did that whilst dealing with internal strife.…

Moody’s lowered Ghana’s long-term debt by a notch to Caa1 from B3 on Feb. 4, citing an increasingly difficult task the government faces in addressing its liquidity and debt challenges amid weak revenue generation constraints. Ghana to Appeal Moody’s Credit Rating Downgrade on Data Used (msn.com)Ghana to Appeal Moody’s Credit Rating Downgrade on Data Used (msn.com)Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana and Chairperson of ECOWAS, interacts with delegates at a summit in Accra, Ghana, on February 3, 2022. (Photo by NIPAH DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images) The downgrade omitted “key material information from the assumptions driving some of Moody’s forecasts and projections…

The remains of the upper stage from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will go on an unplanned extended mission next month when the roughly 4-ton hunk of space junk creates a new crater on the moon’s far side by slamming into it at over 5,000 miles per hour. © Provided by CNET A natural impact on the moon created this crater in 2013. It’s about to get another. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University Bill Gray, an amateur astronomer and software developer in Maine, first noticed the terminal trajectory. His software picked up the impact in an orbital model and Gray worked…

SAN JOSE (Reuters) – Former Costa Rican President Jose Maria Figueres and conservative contender Fabricio Alvarado led a preliminary partial tally of votes in Sunday’s presidential election, figures published by the electoral tribunal showed. © Reuters/MAYELA LOPEZ Costa Rica holds presidential electionNo candidate is expected to win the more than 40% of votes needed to avoid a run-off, but if the initial trend in the vote count holds, Figueres and Alvarado could face off in a second round in early April to decide the presidency.(Reporting by Alvaro Murillo) Ex-president Figueres, conservative Alvarado lead early Costa Rica vote count (msn.com)

By Karolos Grohmann © Reuters/JORGE SILVA Alpine Skiing – Men’s DownhillBEIJING (Reuters) – A sharp drop in COVID-19 cases on Feb. 5 among Beijing Olympics-related personnel was due to fewer arrivals at the airport and organisers said on Sunday that they did not expect any more large fluctuations in infection numbers. © Reuters/MIKE BLAKE Snowboard – Men’s SBD SS Qualification Run 1China detected 10 new COVID cases among Olympic Games-related personnel on Feb. 5, the organising committee of the Games said. That was down from Feb. 4’s 45 cases – the second highest daily tally since arrivals commenced last month. Among the…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia will open its borders to all vaccinated tourists and business travelers from Feb. 21 in a further relaxation of pandemic restrictions announced Monday. © Provided by Associated Press Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a press conference in Canberra, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. Morrison said that the county’s border would reopen to all vaccinated visas holders from Feb. 21. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)Australia imposed some of the world’s toughest travel restrictions on its citizens and permanent residents in March 2020 to prevent them from bringing COVID-19 home.When the border restrictions were…

Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has repeated her denial that she said she was sexually assaulted by a top Chinese official, in her first interview with independent media, as the International Olympic Committee said that its president had met her for dinner on Saturday. Speaking to reporters from French sport paper L’Equipe, in an hour-long face-to-face interview, Peng said: “I never said anyone had sexually assaulted me in any way.” In November last year, Peng wrote a long post on Chinese social media site Weibo. In it she alleged that Zhang Gaoli, a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party official, had “forced”…