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COVID vaccines: the danger of journals being seen as substitute regulators

3:22 pm May 21, 2021

London: By Christoffer van Tulleken, UCL London, May 21 (The Conversation) A superficial reading of the history of vaccination might lead you to believe that it is simple. Dried smallpox pustules had been used for 1,000 years to inoculate people against smallpox before the first successful vaccine trial, conducted by Edward Jenner in 1796 on a single eight-year-old boy. […]

Italy may be in Easter lockdown, but the party’s on at sea

2:59 pm April 2, 2021

Rome: Italy may be in a strict coronavirus lockdown this Easter with travel restricted between regions and new quarantines imposed. But a few miles offshore, guests aboard the MSC Grandiosa cruise ship are shimmying to Latin music on deck and sipping cocktails by the pool. In one of the anomalies of lockdowns that have shuttered […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Berlin man convicted over threat to blow up British hospital

10:45 pm February 26, 2021

Berlin: A 33-year-old Italian man was convicted Friday of attempted extortion for threatening to blow up a British National Health Service hospital unless he was paid off with 10 million pounds (USD 13.2 million) in crypto currency. Defendant Emil A, a resident of Berlin whose last name wasn’t given in line with German privacy laws, was sentenced to three years […]

Italian vessels rescue 47 migrants after small boat capsizes

11:49 pm February 20, 2021

Rome: Italy’s coast guard and border police motorboats rescued 47 migrants whose small wooden boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea south of a tiny Italian island early Saturday. The coast guard said in a statement that migrants were being transferred to the Italian vessels when the boat overturned some 15 miles south of Lampedusa island. After tossing life vests into the […]

Pope again updates Vatican legal code amid scrutiny, probes

11:58 pm February 16, 2021

Rome: Pope Francis has made another set of changes to the Vatican City State’s legal code, which has come under heightened scrutiny and criticism as Vatican prosecutors seek to crack down on financial crimes and mismanagement by Holy See monsignors and money managers. In a new law published Tuesday, Francis made two modifications to criminal trial procedures when defendants don’t show up, one of which […]

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