News Desk: LOS ANGELES, March 6, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – California on Friday paved the way for Disneyland, other theme parks and outdoor stadiums to welcome guests sooner than expected as it relaxed reopening criteria following a sharp decline in Covid-19 cases and pressure from operators. The move announced by the state health department will permit ballparks, stadiums and mega-attractions including […]

News Desk: YAOUNDÉ, March 6, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Cameroon, one of the countries in Africa worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic, is set to receive “very shortly” more than one million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute said on Friday. Pointing to “a deterioration in the epidemiological situation” in the country, Dion Ngute told state radio that […]

News Desk: BEIJING, March 6, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Authorities in Inner Mongolia must “solve ethnic problems” and push the use of the Mandarin language, Chinese President Xi Jinping has said, months after the region was rocked by protests over a new rule that would reduce the use of the local language. The region in China’s far north borders the independent […]

News Desk: DHAKA, March 4, 2021 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the problems between neighbouring countries should be resolved through discussions and negotiations. “There might have problems among the neighbouring countries. We believe that the problems should be resolved through discussions and negotiations,” PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim quoted the premier as saying. The PM said this […]

News Desk: WASHINGTON, March 5, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – So it’s official: The US president does not think opposition Republicans belong to an extinct human species. They just behave like them. “Behavior of a Neanderthal,” Joe Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki said Thursday. “Just to be very clear: the behavior.” Psaki was circling back on Biden’s earlier bashing of Republican governors […]

News Desk: JOHANNESBURG, March 5, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Women in Africa are less likely to die from Covid-19 than men, but more likely to succumb to maternal complications due to limited access to reproductive services since the pandemic started, the UN said Thursday citing reports. A study of 28 African countries including Guinea, Mauritius and Uganda showed that on average […]

News Desk: France and its Western allies plan to lodge a protest with the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog to criticise Iran’s decision to curb cooperation with the agency, the French foreign minister said on Tuesday. Iran said last month it was scaling back cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, ending extra inspection and monitoring measures introduced by the 2015 […]

News Desk: WASHINGTON, March 2, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – The US Senate Judiciary Committee gave its approval Monday to President Joe Biden’s pick to be attorney general, Merrick Garland. The panel voted 15 to seven in support of the respected Washington appeals court judge, whose nomination to the Supreme Court in 2016 was frozen by Republicans seeking to install a conservative […]