Views: 1PARIS (Reuters) – World food prices eased in December after four consecutive monthly gains but jumped 28% over 2021 for the highest average level since 2011, the U.N. food agency said on Thursday. © Reuters/PASCAL ROSSIGNOL FILE PHOTO: Starlings fly over a tractor as french farmer plows his field in Haynecourt The Food and Agriculture […]
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Views: 2 NEW YORK (AP) — Oh, how things have changed. © Provided by Associated Press – Sports Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., right, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., left speak on the west side of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, on the one year anniversary of the attack on the U.S.
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Views: 1 ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria is working to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, President Muhammadu Buhari said in a televised interview on Thursday, as the country battles growing cases of the virus. Health experts say Nigeria needs to triple its vaccination drive from just over 100,000 doses a day to meet its target of inoculating
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Views: 8 Passengers were originally required to carry vaccination cards, a measure which however has been found to be difficult to enforce, according to Works and Transport Minister Gen Edward Katumba Wamala. WORKS AND TRANSPORT MINISTER GEN EDWARD KATUMBA WAMALA ADDRESSING THE MEDIA. KAMPALA, UGANDA: The government has withdrawn the condition that passengers must prove that
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Views: 3 The pandemic illuminated gaps in healthcare infrastructure across the continent LAGOS, Nigeria, January 4, 2022/ — By: Eyong Ebai – General Manager Sub-Saharan Africa, GE Healthcare Our purpose at GE Healthcare is to improve lives in moments that matter, and we do so by partnering to help deliver more sustainable and accessible precision healthcare.
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Views: 0 It was a day that shook America. Joe Biden will lead sombre commemorations on Thursday to mark one year since the US Capitol insurrection that left five people dead and the nation’s democracy wounded, and is expected to lay out the “singular responsibility” that Donald Trump has for the “chaos and carnage” of
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Views: 2 The High Commission of India in Sri Lanka Wednesday said the 13 Indian fishermen detained by the Lankan Navy in December would be released soon. The Sri Lankan Navy detained the Tamil fishermen last month and seized their boats, claiming that they had crossed the international maritime borders. Fishermen moor their boat with
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Views: 4 Chinese state media have trivialised US and UK concerns around tech privacy and security with a parody film entitled: 0.07: No Time to Die Laughing. © Xinhua News AgencyChina’s state media company shared a parody video featuring “James Pond” and a fake CIA agent – Xinhua News AgencyThe video, which was posted to Twitter and YouTube on
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Views: 0 A Hong Kong cruise ship carrying 3,700 people was ordered back to port on Wednesday for virus testing after nine people were found to be close contacts in an Omicron variant outbreak. © Peter PARKS ‘Spectrum of the Seas’ is one of the vessels offering cooped-up Hong Kongers a ‘cruise to nowhere’ that sails
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Views: 3 India is in the midst of a Covid third wave, officials have said, as the spread of Omicron has led to a doubling of cases in recent days and curfews being imposed on cities across the country. © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images“India is clearly in the third wave of Covid-19,
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