Coronavirus
Twitter strikes again: Iran’s supreme leader’s tweets about ‘untrustworthy’ UK &...
9 Jan, 2021
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been hit by Twitter’s campaign of high-profile censorship, as the platform removed his messages blasting...
Palestinians excluded from Israeli Covid vaccine rollout as jabs go to...
Human rights groups accuse Israel of dodging obligations to millions in occupied territories who may wait months for vaccination
By Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem and...
Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine first in the world to receive emergency use...
Dec. 31, 2020
The first vaccine against the novel coronavirus approved for emergency use by the World Health Organization is Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA one produced...
2020 Latin America and the Caribbean in Review: the Pink Tide...
by Roger Harris*
December 31, 2020
The balance between the US drive to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean and its counterpart, the Bolivarian cause of...
Is fascism returning to Romania?
A new Romanian radical right party is resurrecting Romania’s interwar fascism
By Roland Clark
22 December 2020
One of the big surprises of the Romanian elections in December...
Benjamin Netanyahu suggests microchipping kids, slammed by experts
"If the information with the kids' location is uploaded to the internet, a pedophile with some cyber knowledge may invade the system and stalk...
Sweden records deadliest November since 1918 Spanish flu pandemic
By Jordan Shilton
28 December 2020
Sweden recorded last month its deadliest November since the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. With 8,088 deaths registered in the...
Current coronavirus pandemic ‘very severe’ but ‘not necessarily the big one’...
29 Dec, 2020
The head of the WHO health emergencies program Dr. Michael Ryan has warned there might be an “even more severe” pandemic in...
La Suède et le Japon payent le prix de leur gestion...
December 23, 2020
L’un des aspects les plus frappants dans la pandémie de Covid-19, c’est la différence radicale des stratégies mises en place d’un pays...
Lancet: COVID far deadlier than influenza
Background
To date, influenza epidemics have been considered suitable for use as a model for the COVID-19 epidemic, given that they are respiratory diseases with...