By Elian Peltier European officials have been divided over how much support to show to France in its diplomatic spat with the United States and Britain over a nuclear submarine deal. Some have questioned the Biden administration’s commitment to a strong alliance with the European Union, but they have stopped short of concrete action. Ursula […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reprimanded the world on Tuesday (Sept 21) for the inequitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, describing it as an “obscenity” and giving the globe an “F in Ethics.” Addressing the annual UN gathering of world leaders in New York, Mr Guterres said images from some parts of […]
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil kicked off the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday by defending the use of ineffective drugs to treat the coronavirus and by pushing back on criticism of his government’s environmental record. Brazil’s far-right president said doctors should have had more leeway in administering untested medications for Covid-19, adding that he […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – US President Joe Biden defended the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan on Tuesday (Sept 21) in a speech to the United Nations, arguing it was a necessary step to pivot US policy to focus on a global challenge from anti-democratic systems, the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change. “We’ve ended 20 years […]
Several prominent leaders will deliver in-person addresses at the U.N. General Assembly meeting on Tuesday, including President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, an avowed Covid skeptic whose mismanagement of the pandemic threatens his political future. Mr. Bolsonaro also has created a stir by vowing to defy the meeting’s vaccination requirement. Many leaders are opting to use […]
TEXAS (REUTERS) – A San Antonio physician who announced he gave an abortion to a woman in defiance of a new Texas law was sued in Texas state court on Monday (Sept 21) by two plaintiffs from other states who want to test the law’s constitutionality. Alan Braid said in an opinion piece published in […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Weeks before the World Bank scrapped its flagship Doing Business rankings following a damning independent probe, a group of external advisers recommended an overhaul of the rankings to limit countries’ efforts to “manipulate their scores”. An 84-page review, written by senior academics and economists, was published on the bank’s website on Monday […]
The US is set to reopen air travel to foreign visitors who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. Travelers from 33 countries including China, Brazil, India and most of Europe will be allowed into the US, the White House announced on Monday. The change in travel rules represents an easing from the strict restrictions imposed […]
The FBI have searched the home of Brian Laundrie – the fiance of Gabby Petito, whose body was apparently found over the weekend in a Wyoming national park. Video showed a dozen law enforcement officers, including one wearing an FBI jacket, pulling up to the house in North Port, Florida, on Monday. According to local […]
Newly 911 audio reveals a caller in Utah claiming that Brian Laundrie hit his fiancé, missing YouTuber Gabby Petito. The male caller tells a Grant County sheriff that a ‘gentleman’ driving a white van with a Florida license plate slapped a girl inside before the vehicle departed, according to the audio obtained by Fox News. […]