Abbas announces first Palestinian elections in more than 15 years
Abbas announces first Palestinian elections in more than 15 years Parliamentary elections will be held on 22 May, followed by presidential vote on 31 July, according to office of President Mahmoud Abbas More...
Turkey starts rollout of Sinovac’s Covid-19 vaccine to health workers, inoculating more than 160,000 in a day
Turkey has started administering the Covid-19 jab produced by Chinese company Sinovac as the nation kicks off its inoculation program against the virus, which has killed more than 23,000 people in the country. Following More...
More than a third of Keir Starmer’s Twitter fans identified as ‘fake followers’
Starmer hits a million followers – but almost 35% seem to be made up Observers have used analytics tools to identify a large number of ‘fake’ accounts following Labour leader Keir Starmer on Twitter. Starmer’s More...
Covid-19: Turkey announces more than 250,000 health workers vaccinated so far
Covid-19: Turkey announces more than 250,000 health workers vaccinated so far President Recep Tayyip Erdogan receives first dose of the Sinovac jab as Turkey begins vaccinating health workers More...
‘Perfect storm’: WHO warns second year of fighting Covid-19 could be ‘even tougher’ than the first
Ongoing transmission dynamics show the world needs to brace for an even tougher year of fighting Covid-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, while the disease has turned into the “perfect storm” More...
‘More threatening than Trumpism or Covid-19’: Scientists warn of ‘ghastly future of mass extinction’
Mismatched priorities of governments worldwide and the “widespread ignorance” of the general public have failed to address the deterioration of life on Earth, a report by a group of environmental scientist says. “The More...
Twitter permanently suspends more than 70,000 QAnon accounts as social media purge continues
Social media site Twitter has suspended over 70,000 accounts since Friday, primarily those that share QAnon content, after updating its enforcement policies following the violence that erupted in Washington, DC More...
With the economy crashing, the two-child benefit limit is crueller than ever
Seven Secretaries of State have come and gone at the Department for Work and Pensions since the two-child limit and associated rape clause appeared in the UK government’s budget in 2015. Not one of them has felt More...
Capitol security breach shows the government fears left more than right
Trump supporters being able to break into the Capitol building shows the stark difference between how the left and the right are policed, argues Kate O’Neil Counterfire Daily More...
‘Trust in teachers rather than algorithms’: UK govt attempts to avoid repeat of last year’s chaotic exam results debacle
The UK’s education secretary said the government will trust teachers to decide students’ exam results after cancelling the GCSE and A-Levels tests again due to the pandemic. Teachers called last year’s results More...
