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Friday, April 30, 2021
Thursday, April 29, 2021
‘Cannon fodder’: India’s COVID-hit medical students feel betrayed | Junior doctors subjected to mammoth workloads, lack of pay, rampant exposure to virus and complete academic neglect.
A year after Ecuador oil spill, Indigenous victims await justice: reliant on the river for millennia, they are struggling to adapt to other livelihoods
Rape victims in south Asia still face vaginal tests, report finds. The test involves a medical practitioner inserting two fingers into the vagina of a rape survivor in an attempt to determine if the hymen is broken, as well as to test laxity in the vagina.
"German climate law is partly unconstitutional, top court rules" because it threatens the freedoms of future generations by passing the "emission reduction obligations" onto them.
German climate law is partly unconstitutional, top court rules | Germany will have to improve its emissions targets from 2031 following a complaint by a coalition of climate activists, including Friday's for Future.
India has declined assistance offered by the United Nations of its integrated supply chain for COVID19-related material, saying the country has a "robust system" to deal with the required logistics, a spokesperson for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said.
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Facebook blocked hashtag calling for Narendra Modi to resign over pandemic | Users based in India noted on Twitter that the #ResignModi hashtag had been blocked from view on Facebook
Tainted batches of Russia's Sputnik V Covid vaccine sent to Brazil carried a live version of a common cold-causing virus, the South American country's health regulator reported in a presentation explaining its decision to ban the drug's import
US, UK and EU, are blocking a proposal by over 100 developing countries to be discussed at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which would override the monopolies held by pharmaceutical companies and allow an urgently needed scale up in the production COVID-19 vaccines
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Monday, April 26, 2021
Austria: Anti-Semitic crimes hit record high in 2020. The Jewish Community of Vienna has found that right-wing ideology played a significant role behind Austria's anti-Semitic attacks
The US Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether the government can block a detainee at Guantánamo Bay from obtaining information from two former C.I.A. contractors involved in torturing him on the ground that it would expose state secrets
No.10 Downing Street "terrified" of an upcoming dossier by Dominic Cummings that claims to have evidence that implicates the Prime Minister in tens of thousands of deaths.
India's richest people are fleeing on private jets as the country hits almost 350,000 COVID-19 infections in another daily global record
Sunday, April 25, 2021
A study of more than 2,100 pregnant women across 18 countries worldwide has revealed that COVID-19 is associated with a higher risk of severe maternal and newborn complications than previously recognised.
Military expenditure worldwide rose to nearly $2 trillion in 2020, defying the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Global military spending increased by 2.6 percent to $1,981 billion (about 1,650 billion euros) in 2020, when global GDP shrank 4.4 percent,
Boris Johnson: 'Let the bodies pile high in their thousands'. PM's incendiary remark during fight over lockdowns is latest claim in No10 drama - amid spectacular row with Cummings
Journalist arrested by India in 2020, for trying to cover Hathras gangrape of a Dalit girl, denied toilet access in prison - and made to use a bottle
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Saudi Arabia will join the United States, Canada, Norway, and Qatar in forming a new platform for oil and gas producers to discuss how they can support the implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change
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