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Indigenous leaders still await apology from Pope; visit to Vatican in December set Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a visit Monday, October 18, to the indigenous community of Kamloops where the remains of 215 children were found in May at a former residential school ran by the Catholic Church, apologizing for not coming sooner. The visit followed strong criticisms directed at Trudeau for ignoring an earlier invitation to the community on the first […]
by James PHEBY LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain has repeatedly trumpeted its mass vaccination program against Covid-19, hailing its early approval of jabs as a key part of the long struggle to return to normal life. But infection rates remain stubbornly high, contrasting sharply with its European neighbors and prompting fresh questions of the government. For two weeks, the number of new cases has wavered between 35,000 and 40,000 a day, and on Monday […]
SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — Russia’s second city, Saint Petersburg, announced Monday it would tighten restrictions to battle a surge in Covid-19 cases, introducing a health pass to regulate access to crowd events. From November 1, people will need to present a QR barcode to get into sports and cultural events where more than 40 people are gathering, the city’s deputy governor Boris Piotrovski said in a Telegram post. Only people who have been fully […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Pfizer-BioNTech submitted an authorization request to Health Canada on Monday for the use of its Covid-19 vaccine in children aged 5-11, the companies and the Canadian government said. “This is the first submission Health Canada has received for the use of a Covid-19 vaccine in this younger age group,” it said in a statement. The authorization request is based on data from trials conducted on 2,268 children in this age group […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Monday that around 96% players in the league have now been vaccinated against Covid-19 despite union opposition to a league-wide mandate. Speaking to reporters on the eve of the new NBA season, which tips off on Tuesday, Silver said the number of vaccinated player had increased and was expected to go higher after the season starts. “Roughly 96% of our players are vaccinated, and […]
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — At least nine people died and another 15 were injured when a bus veered off the road and crashed into a ravine in Ecuador, emergency services said on Monday. The bus plunged into the 200 meter (220 yards) deep ravine in the southern Chimborazo province. Authorities did not say how many people were onboard the bus that had left the port city of Guayaquil and was heading towards Ambato in the […]
by Frankie TAGGART Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Colin Powell, a US war hero and the first Black secretary of state who saw his trailblazing legacy tarnished when he made the case for war in Iraq in 2003, died Monday from complications from Covid-19. The 84-year-old retired four-star general was fully vaccinated, his family said in a statement, making him one of the most high-profile US public figures to die of […]
(Eagle News) — The northeasterly surface windflow is affecting extreme Northern Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said as a result, Batanes and Babuyan Islands will have cloudy skies with light rains. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, meanwhile, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. Northern Luzon, the weather bureau said, will have moderate […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Colin Powell, a US war hero and the first Black secretary of state who saw his legacy tarnished when he made the case for war in Iraq in 2003, has died from complications from Covid-19. He was 84. “We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,” the family said in a statement posted to social media on Monday. The retired four-star general and former […]
(Eagle News) — For the second straight day, the Department of Health reported new COVID-19 cases below 7,000 on Monday, Oct. 18. The DOH said 6.943 new virus cases were recorded, while new recoveries were 19,687. This brought the total active cases to just 68,832 or 2.5 percent of total COVID-19 cases. Total Covid recoveries reached 2,617,693, or 96 percent of total cases. New Covid deaths on Monday were 86 bringing total virus fatalities […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — The European Union has exported “over one billion” doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the past 10 months, the bloc’s chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday. “Very clearly, the European Union is the largest exporter of Covid-19 vaccines,” she said, announcing the “important milestone” in a brief broadcast and statement. Von der Leyen said that 87 million of the doses had been funnelled through the WHO-led Covax scheme to mid- […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar’s junta chief Monday announced the release of more than 5,000 people jailed for protesting against a February coup, days after a regional bloc delivered a major snub to the military regime. There has been chaos in Myanmar since the coup, with more than 1,100 civilians killed in a bloody crackdown on dissent and more than 8,000 arrested, according to a local monitoring group. More than 7,300 are currently behind […]
