Rwandair To Be The First African Airline To Trial IATA Travel Pass
RwandAir will become the first African airline to trial IATA Travel Pass to enable safe and seamless international travel. The airline will begin a three week trial in April for…
UK Supreme Court Rejects IS Bride’s Bid To Return
Britain’s highest court on Friday rejected a bid by a woman who was stripped of her UK citizenship for joining the Islamic State group to return to challenge the decision.…
Cameroon Soldiers Raped 20 Women, Killed Man- Human Right Watch
Cameroonian soldiers raped at least 20 women, including four with disabilities, and killed a man in a raid last year in an English-speaking secessionist region, Human Rights Watch said Friday.…
Nuclear Issue Key As Iran Readies For Rouhani Replacement
Iran will vote in June for a successor to President Hassan Rouhani and his moderate-reformist government, but politics in the country is dominated by the nuclear issue and no frontrunner…
UK Lifts Ban On Use Of Domestic Blood Plasma Donations In Treatments
The UK government said Thursday it will lift a decades-old ban on British donations of blood plasma for use in the manufacture of medicines, in a move that could help…
Saudi Crown Prince Has Surgery For Appendicitis
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto ruler, has had successful surgery for appendicitis, state media reported. The 35-year-old prince had “successful laparoscopic surgery (Wednesday) night for…
Biden Revokes Trump’s Immigrant Visa Ban
President Joe Biden has revoked former President Donald Trump’s order that limited the number of new work visas for temporary foreign workers in the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic.…
North Korean Defector Undetected For Hours After Swimming To South Korea
A North Korean defector wore a diving suit and fins during a daring six-hour swim around one of the world’s most fortified borders, a Seoul official said, and was caught…
Covid-19- Ghana To Receive World’s First Doses Of Free Covax Vaccines -UNICEF
Ghana is scheduled to receive Wednesday the first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines from Covax, a World Health Organization-backed effort to procure and distribute inoculations for free to poor countries. “These…
Biotech Firm Launches Lassa Vaccine Trial In West Africa
A biotechnology company, INOVIO, says the first participant in Lassa vaccine trial has been dosed in a Phase 1B clinical trial for INO-4500, its DNA vaccine candidate for Lassa fever.…
