The annual mega festival for mobile communications in the world kin Barcelona is seeing a flow of people from all over the world carrying with them the one must-have tech – a negative Covid-19 test, an FFP2 face mask and… Read More ›
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Germany aims to ban British travelers from EU citing widespread incidents of COVID-19’s Delta variant in UK
On Monday, a report from The Times said, Germany will attempt to ban British travellers from the European Union regardless of their COVID-19 vaccine status. Given that the Delta variant of the Coronavirus-induced COVID-19 is widespread in Britain, German chancellor… Read More ›
Covid-19: Fully Vaccinated People Should Continue To Wear Masks As Delta Variant Is Spreading, Says WHO
With the highly contagious delta variant of coronavirus spreading rapidly across the globe, a call for fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks, maintain social distancing as well as other Covid-19 pandemic safety measures was given on Friday by… Read More ›
Poor Countries Have No Vaccines, WHO Pleads For Doses
There are no doses of Covid-19 vaccines for the poorest of the countries even while the rich ones are opening up societies and are vaccinating the young population who are not at any great risk from the disease said the… Read More ›
Formats other than EU-Russia summit will be explored: German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Leaders from the European Union failed to agree on a proposal led by France and Germany to hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Baltic countries along with Poland opposed the move saying it would send the wrong message…. Read More ›
Insurers Unwilling To Cover For Jeff Bezos’ 2021 Space Odyssey
Insurance companies of the United States and elsewhere are unwilling to take the risk of insuring the flight into space of space tourists even though the most outlandish of risks have previously been covered by them. But now they are… Read More ›
EU aims for summit with Russia, exit negative spiral in relations
On Thursday, leaders from the European Union said, they are weighing options which include seeking a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of a strategy to manage relations with Moscow and exit the current “negative spiral”. On Wednesday,… Read More ›
US bans import of key solar panel material from Chinese companies
In a significant development, the Biden Administration has banned U.S. imports of a key solar panel material from China’s Hoshine Silicon Industry Co over forced labor allegations, said two sources. In a separate move, the U.S. Commerce Department has also restricted… Read More ›
A Third Of Mainstream Investment Firms Believe Crypto Is ‘Rat Poison’, Shows JPMorgan Survey
A survey conducted by JPMorgan found that only 10 per cent of the institutional investment firms who participated in the survey trade in cryptocurrencies and almost half them have described this emerging digital asset class as “rat poison” or have… Read More ›
Apple Daily, Pro-Democracy Newspaper Of Hong Kong, To Shut Down Under Government Pressure
Within hours of the Hong Kong police arresting another of its employee for allegedly breaching the controversial national security law, the embattled Hong Kong based pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily said that it will stop all its operations starting on Wednesday… Read More ›