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5 dead of suspected gas leak in Italian nursing home

7:47 pm January 16, 2021

Milan : Five elderly residents of a nursing home near Rome have died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning and another five residents and two workers have been hospitalised in serious condition, Italian media reported Saturday. Firefighters confirmed the deadly incident in the town of Lanuvio, with the hypothesis of a gas leak. A worker in the home found the residents […]

German regional spy chief fired over Christmas attack probe

10:37 pm January 13, 2021

Berlin: The domestic intelligence chief in Germany‘s northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has been fired over his agency’s failure to pass on information about a 2016 truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin that killed 12 people. German news agency dpa reported that Reinhard Mueller was removed from his post Wednesday. Mueller had told lawmakers that his agency did not […]

Virus collides with politics as German election year starts

3:48 pm January 9, 2021

Berlin: The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with politics as Germany embarks on its vaccination drive and one of the most unpredictable election years in the country’s post-World War II history. After months of relatively harmonious pandemic management, fingers are being pointed as the center-left junior partner in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government takes aim at what it says has been a […]

France backed India on Kashmir, didn’t allow China to play procedural games at UNSC: Macron advisor

11:37 pm January 7, 2021

New Delhi: France has been supportive of India on Kashmir and has not allowed China to play any ”procedural games” at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), an advisor to the French president said on Thursday. On a visit to India for the annual strategic dialogue between France and India, Emmanuel Bonne, the diplomatic advisor to French President Emmanuel Macron, said, ”When China breaks the […]

EU agency approves Moderna”s COVID-19 vaccine

7:41 pm January 6, 2021

Amsterdam: The European Unions medicines agency gave the green light Wednesday to Moderna Inc.s COVID-19 vaccine, a decision that gives the 27-nation bloc a second vaccine to use in the desperate battle to tame the virus rampaging across the continent. The approval recommendation by the European Medicines Agencys human medicines committee — which must be rubber stamped by the EUs executive […]