The stock market in Japan ended almost flat on Thursday. Investors took it easy after the rally in recent weeks. A disappointing job report from the American pay slip processor ADP caused some reticence. The positive developments around the corona vaccines and the hope for more stimulus measures actually […]
The corona vaccine from the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer and the German biotechnologist BioNTech has been approved for use in the United Kingdom. The vaccine should be available from next week. The UK government agreed to a recommendation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to approve […]
The Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip has tested positive for the coronavirus. 58-year-old Yahya Sinwar, one of the most influential figures in the radical Islamic organization, is doing well under the circumstances, according to his office. The Hamas chief belongs to a growing group of corona patients in […]
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is outraged by a “disgusting, scandalous and heinous” tweet from a leading Chinese government spokesman and is demanding an apology from Beijing. Australian prosecutors are currently investigating 19 of the country’s military in connection with alleged war crimes committed by special forces in Afghanistan […]
French President Emmanuel Macron is “very shocked” by the images of the police in Paris beating a black man. The French channel BFMTV quotes from a response from the Elysée because Macron has not yet spoken publicly about the images. The French news site Loopsider published a video of […]
The number of corona patients in Belgium that died has passed 16,000, reports the health institute Sciensano. Since the outbreak, 16,077 people have died from Covid-19. The number of confirmed corona cases since the start of the pandemic stands at 564,967. The number of new infections, hospital admissions and […]
Meghan, the wife of Britain’s Prince Harry, miscarried in July. She made it known to the world in an opinion piece Wednesday in the American newspaper The New York Times. She had the miscarriage when she was taking care of her son Archie, she says in that piece. “I […]
The number of new daily infections with the coronavirus is increasing in Germany after a few days of decline. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the German counterpart of the RIVM, reported on Tuesday morning that the lung virus was diagnosed in 13,554 people in the last 24 hours. On […]
The introduction of new Macs based on Apple’s own M1 processor did not go smoothly. Several users’ computers went completely into trouble trying to reinstall macOS 11. Apple is now releasing a fix. The problems could arise when users tried to reinstall the macOS 11 Big Sur operating system […]
The European Union may have to pay more than 10 billion euros for the hundreds of millions of corona vaccines from pharmaceuticals Pfizer and BioNTech. News agency Reuters reports on the basis of insiders that the makers of the vaccine and Brussels have agreed on a price per dose […]
