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March 18, 2021 8:41 AM

WHO, European Medicines Agency looking into AstraZeneca vaccine issue

Head of the department of immunisations and vaccines of the World Health Organisation, Dr Kate O'Brien has said, WHO and the European Medicines Agency are trying to investigate the possibility of a link between blood clots and the AstraZeneca shots. The potential side effect has prompted some c...

March 18, 2021 8:21 AM

Tanzanian President John Magufuli passes away following heart ailment

Tanzania's President John Magufuli has passed away at a hospital in Dar es Salaam. He was 61. In a televised address, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan said, the President died of a heart ailment that he has battled for over 10 years. She added that the president had been receiving treatment a...

March 17, 2021 10:27 PM

Hindu houses attacked in Sunamganj in Bangladesh over Facebook post

<span style="color: black;">A large mob, allegedly supporters of the hardline Islamist leader Junaid Babunagari, attacked a Hindu village in the Shalla upzila of Sunamganj on Wednesday. The crowd was enraged as a local Hindu man wrote a facebook post criticising a lea...

March 17, 2021 8:04 PM

EU agrees to blacklist Chinese officials for human rights abuses

The European Union (EU) has agreed to blacklist Chinese officials for human rights abuses.<br />''It is the first sanctions against Beijing since an EU arms embargo in 1989 following the Tiananmen Square crackdown. The 1989 EU arms embargo on China, its second-largest trade p...

March 17, 2021 6:58 PM

French envoy in Islamabad faces threats

The French Ambassador in Islamabad Marc Barety is facing security threats following a demand by a radical Islamist political party to expel the French envoy.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">The...

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