Giorno: 26 Novembre 2021

NATO chief warns Russia against invading Ukraine

Post Content NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Russia Friday that any attempt to invade Ukraine would have costs, as concern mounts about a Russian military buildup near its former Soviet neighbor’s borders. Ukraine says Moscow kept about 90,000 troops near their common border following massive war games in western Russia earlier this year. The Ukrainian […]

Chinese media applauds Interpol appointment, dismisses international concern over 'Operation Fox Hunt'

Post Content Beijing state-backed media celebrated the appointment of a top Chinese public security official to Interpol’s executive committee despite widespread international concern over China’s potential abuse of the global policing organization. Hu Binchen, a Deputy Director General at China’s Ministry of Public Security, will join the General Assembly session later this month after Beijing […]

France, Britain spiral into crisis in wake of migrant deaths

Post Content The already fractious relationship between France and Britain spiralled further downward into anger and incomprehension Friday, with the two erstwhile European partners at loggerheads about how to stop migrants from embarking on dangerous crossings of the English Channel that killed at least 27 people in a sinking this week. Even as the British […]

What the COVID omicron variant really means, and what experts are worried about

Read More Various COVID-19 variants have been discovered around the world during the nearly two years of the pandemic – the vast majority being expressions of random and insignificant changes in the virus’s genome. The reason the omicron variant – discovered in several South African countries and identified in Israel for the first time on […]

Omicron variant spreads to Europe as UK announces countermeasures

Read More Omicron variant spreads to Europe as UK announces countermeasures Experts stress importance of delaying import of new Covid variant to UK to avoid Christmas mixing Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage As an alarming new Covid variant spread to Europe on Friday, scientists warned that it would inevitably reach Britain, […]

Q&A: Will Flight Restrictions Help With New Variant?

A new coronavirus variant identified in South Africa is leading to a new round of travel restrictions just as many had finally begun to ease.The risks of the variant, called omicron, are largely unknown. But the World Health Organization has called it a “variant of concern”…