SciCheck Digest Federal vaccine monitoring systems have identified no safety concerns with the COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant people. Preliminary Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show that miscarriage is not more…
Continue ReadingBoris Johnson has failed to give any hope of a deadline for wearing face masks, despite legal restrictions on coverings coming to an end from July 19. The Prime Minister…
Continue Reading#French Prime Minister Jean Castex starts this thursday the first #secular #committee, bringing together a dozen of gouvernment’s members, to tighten legislation. Sociology Professor at Paris’ ESSEC Marwan Sinaceur tells…
Continue ReadingAt least 19 people have died and dozens of people are missing in #Germany after heavy #flooding turned streams and streets into raging #torrents, sweeping away cars and causing some…
Continue ReadingThe #Taliban have proposed a three-month #ceasefire in return for the release of about 7,000 insurgent prisoners held in #Afghanistan’s jails, a government negotiator involved in peace talks said Thursday.…
Continue ReadingThe Prime Minister is expected to reject suggestions that his flagship levelling up pledge will divert funding away from the so-called Blue Wall, promising not to "decapitate the tall poppies"…
Continue ReadingDozens of people have been killed amid looting and rioting across South Africa sparked by protests against the jailing last week of former President Jacob Zuma. The military has been…
Continue ReadingFrance marks its national day on Wednesday, July 14, after the annual military parade down the Champs-Élysées was cancelled last year due to the threat of Covid-19. The traditional parade…
Continue ReadingMore than 1 million people in France made vaccine appointments in less than a day, figures showed on Tuesday, after the president cranked up pressure on everyone to get vaccinated…
Continue ReadingSciCheck Digest There is no evidence that a door-to-door campaign to encourage vaccinations against COVID-19 means President Joe Biden and Democrats “are coming to your front door to force you…
Continue ReadingCrowds looted shops and businesses in South Africa on Wednesday, defying government calls for an end to a week of violence that has killed more than 70 people, wrecked hundreds…
Continue ReadingLithuania’s parliament approved the mass detention of asylum seekers on Tuesday and restricted their rights to appeal, in a bid to deter high numbers crossing the border with Belarus. #Lithuania…
Continue ReadingFrance marks its national day on Wednesday, July 14, after the annual military parade down the Champs-Élysées was cancelled last year due to the threat of Covid-19. The traditional parade…
Continue ReadingFrance marks its national day on Wednesday, July 14, after the annual military parade down the Champs-Élysées was cancelled last year due to the threat of Covid-19. The traditional parade…
Continue ReadingGrant Shapps has insisted that there is no discrepancy between the Government’s decision to drop mandatory face masks and Sadiq Kahn’s decision to override this change on Transport for London.…
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