Max Verstappen held off Lewis Hamilton by just 1.3s in a titanic title fight at Texas Austin, Texas, U.S. | Xinhua | Red Bull’s Max Verstappen extended his lead in the 2021 Formula One World Championship by holding off Lewis Hamilton to win an absorbing United States Grand Prix at Austin …
Read More »Salah bangs hat-trick as Liverpool thump Man Utd
🔴 FT: Man United 0 Liverpool 5 London, UK| THE INDEPENDENT | Mohamed Salah crowned an outstanding individual display with a hat-trick and an assist as Liverpool recorded their biggest away win against Manchester United. Liverpool raced into an early 2-0 lead, Naby Keita arrowing Salah’s pass home for a fifth-minute …
Read More »Vaccination over 60% as Cuba reports lowest number of daily infections in four months
Havana, Cuba | Xinhua | Cuba reported on Saturday the lowest number of daily infections of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in four months, with 1,393 cases registered in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 944,431. In Cuba, an accelerated mass immunization process against COVID-19 is underway, in which …
Read More »Best option to save Iran nuke deal is to fully comply with it: Iranian expert
Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | The best option to save the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), from collapse is that all the parties to the deal fully comply with the original text of the JCPOA, said Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former …
Read More »Colombia’s most-wanted drug trafficker captured
Bogota, Colombia | Xinhua | The Colombian government said on Saturday that Colombia’s most-wanted drug trafficker “Otoniel” was captured. According to the authorities, Dairo Antonio Usuga, who headed the country’s largest drug trafficking gang known as the Gulf Clan, was captured in a rural area of the Department of Antioquia …
Read More »Gun violence in US surges 30% in last year
Washington, US | Xinhua | Rates of gun violence in the United States surged by almost a third during last year’s COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published Thursday in Scientific Reports. Researchers identified around 51,000 incidents of gun violence across the United States during the 13-month period of the …
Read More »UK on high alert over new Delta variant
London, UK | Xinhua | The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) confirmed Friday that the Delta variant sub-lineage (Delta AY.4.2) was designated a Variant Under Investigation (VUI) on Oct. 20, 2021, and has been given the official name VUI-21OCT-01. The UKHSA said the designation was made on the basis that …
Read More »EXPERTS: US should abandon Cold War mindset, cooperate with China
New York, US | Xinhua | The old Cold War is the wrong way to frame what is happening now between China and the United States, and both sides should cooperate on climate and other issues, said an article published on The New York Times. “Governments that plunge into a …
Read More »CDC endorses COVID-19 booster shots, ‘mix and match’ dosing
Washington, US | XINHUA | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday officially endorsed booster shots for both the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines in certain populations, and allowed “mix and match” dosing for booster shots. The decision came a day after the U.S. …
Read More »BioNTech/Pfizer says booster vaccination increases COVID-19 protection to 95.6 pct
Berlin, Germany | Xinhua | A booster vaccination with the COVID-19 vaccine of BioNTech and Pfizer increased protection to up to 95.6 percent, the companies announced on Thursday. A randomized, controlled phase III study of more than 10,000 people aged 16 years and older found that booster vaccinations with the Comirnaty …
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