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Rocket builder Astra Space on Saturday launched its first rocket since the company went public. After a wobbly liftoff, the rocket failed to achieve its goal of reaching orbit. At liftoff, the rocket appeared to move sideways rather than straight up. Astra founder, chairman and C
Zakia Khudadadi will compete in the women's taekwondo K44 49kg category. ReutersTokyo: Afghanistan's two Paralympic athletes have arrived in Tokyo and will compete at the Games, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said today."The Afghan athletes Zakia Khudadadi and Hossa
Mike says he was struggling with COVID 19 when he felt his breathing getting worse. He did not want to go to the Veterans Affairs hospital near his home, where he believed doctors might put him on a ventilator. And he knew they would not prescribe the treatment he really wanted:…
COVID 19 patients in Wuhan were among the pandemic’s first victims, and a comprehensive new study finds that a year after shaking the coronavirus, survivors were more likely than their uninfected peers to suffer from mobility problems, pain or discomfort, anxiety and depression.A
9.50am BST 09:50 Wheelchair rugby: Quarter time there, Australia trailing France 12 13. 9.48am BST 09:48 Wheelchair basketball: Half time between the USA and Spain in the women’s pool match. Los Americanos lead 32 20. 9.47am BST 09:47 Equestrian: Lee Pearson of GB has qualified i
TOKYO: Japan’s worst Covid 19 outbreak yet has thrown a spotlight on the inability of the country’s otherwise highly regarded medical system to adapt quickly to emergencies and its lack of reform to meet such needs. As new cases surged to more than 25,000 a day this month driven
Democrats in the House of Representatives have passed a bill, named in honour of late civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis, to revive and strengthen the 1965 Voting Rights Act against racially discriminatory voting laws after a pair of US Supreme Court rulings undermine
9.44am BST 09:44 Swimming: The men’s 100m backstroke finals are swum, in the S1 and S2 categories. Iyad Shalabi takes out the S1 gold for Israel, with Anton Kol silver for Ukraine and Francesco Bettella bronze for Italy. In the S2, gold goes to Alberto Abarza of Chile, ahead of…
The delayed 16th Summer Paralympics will take place amid a surge of Covid 19 cases in the country but those inside the stadium were in celebratory mood as the competition officially began in unprecedented circumstances. "I cannot believe we are finally here. Many doubted this day
Among them was Alem Bilatte, 54, a retired army officer, who called the Tigray forces Ethiopia’s “enemy” and promised to train new recruits or go to the battlefront himself. “My blood is boiling,” he said as he registered in the capital.Bekelech Ayalew, 47, a former infantry nurs
The Tokyo Paralympics will be held under “very difficult” circumstances, organisers said on Friday, with hospitals in the host city overstretched as Japan battles its worse wave of COVID 19 infections, driven by the Delta variant. With less than a week to the start of the Paralym
Overcrowding on the runway at Kabul airport has forced a German military plane to divert and refuel without evacuating anyone on the ground. Meanwhile, Chancellor Angela Merkel bemoaned the lack of “success” in Afghanistan. Three Luftwaffe Airbus A440M transport planes took off f
The Red Cross nurse is suspected of injecting a harmless salt solution into people's arms instead of genuine doses at a vaccination centre in Friesland, northern GermanyShe has not been named by authorities (stock image)An anti vax nurse is accused of injecting more than 8,000 pe
The Covid 19 pandemic is actually closer to its beginning than its end because only a small section of the global population has been vaccinated, US epidemiologist Larry Brilliant has said.“I think we’re closer to the beginning than we are to the end [of the pandemic], and that’s
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" If the prediction turns out be true, it means that the delta variant spreads so quickly that “it basically runs out of candidates” to infect, explained Brilliant.There appears to be a similar pattern in the U.K. and India, where the spread of the delta variant has receded from
'Micro preemie' Kwek Yu Xuan was given a "limited chance of survival" at a hospital in Singapore after she was born four months early weighing just 212g (7.47oz) and measuring only 9ins longKwek Yu Xuan was given a "limited chance of survival" after being born at 25 weeks (Image:
CHINESE spies are making a bid to enter the UK by posing as refugees under a resettlement scheme aimed at people from Hong Kong, it's reported. Government sources have confirmed so called sleeper agents have applied for British National (Overseas) visas in an attempt to steal sec
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Organizers set up a grassy field in the middle of the stadium, in an effort to make athletes feel as if they were at a Tokyo park, organizers said. The move acknowledged that the Olympians could not spend time hanging out in the city, as they normally would have, due…
Earlier this month, the Department of Justice released a report about the FBI’s investigation into former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar that spotlighted what survivors like me have known to be true: the entire system is failing athletes. The FBI failed to conduct a thorough
Hima, in the Gulf state's southwest, is home to one of the largest rock art complexes in the world.Najran, Saudi Arabia: A sixth site in Saudi Arabia has been added to UNESCO's world heritage list, the UN organisation announced on Saturday.Hima, in the Gulf state's southwest, is
Firefighters on Friday declared the end of their search for bodies at the site of a collapsed Florida condo building, concluding a month of painstaking work removing layers of dangerous debris that were once piled several storeys. The June 24 collapse at the oceanside Champlain T
the israeli guy could have done the same, you know, considering he is a representative of a country which ethnically cleansed all of its jews the first chance it got, and unlike israel, is a literall apartheid state.After Algeria gained its independence in 1962, it passed the Nat
The staff of the hospital in Montelimar, in the French department of Drome, have gone on indefinite strike to protest the new rules demanding they take a vaccine against Covid 19 by mid September or face losing their jobs. The strike against “forced vaccination” was announced on
ARLINGTON: President Joe Biden led the kind of campaign rally that was impossible last year because of the pandemic, speaking before nearly 3,000 people in support of a fellow moderate Democrat whose race for Virginia governor could serve as a test of Biden's own strength and coa
AHRWEILER, GERMANY: Like other residents of his town in Germany, Wolfgang Huste knew a flood was coming. What nobody told him, he says, was how bad it would be. The 66 year old antiquarian bookseller in Ahrweiler said the first serious warning to evacuate or move to higher floors
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Several states scaled back their reporting of COVID 19 statistics this month just as cases across the country started to skyrocket, depriving the public of real time information on outbreaks, cases, hospitalizations and deaths in their communities.The shift to
AHRWEILER, Germany Like other residents of his town in Germany, Wolfgang Huste knew a flood was coming. What nobody told him, he says, was how bad it would be.The 66 year old antiquarian bookseller in Ahrweiler said the first serious warning to evacuate or move to higher floors o
With every step inside Tokyo's Metropolitan Gymnasium on Saturday, Syria's Hend Zaza had begun to etch her name into the history books. At 12 years old, Zaza was already Tokyo's youngest athlete, and now, with the first swing of her paddle, she also became the youngest Olympian i
The latest: Thousands of people took to the streets of Sydney and other Australian cities on Saturday to protest pandemic lockdown restrictions amid another surge in COVID 19 cases, and police made multiple arrests after crowds broke through barriers and threw plastic bottles and
HANOI: Vietnam locked down eight million people in Hanoi on Saturday, the latest attempt to curb a serious coronavirus outbreak that has already forced a third of the country to stay home. Authorities reported more than 7,000 new infections across the nation on Friday the third r
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By the end of July AstraZeneca will have delivered 11.3 million doses for Thailand: Official (File)Bangkok, Thailand: Drugmaker AstraZeneca said Saturday it was scouring its supply chain to find more doses of its Covid 19 vaccine for Southeast Asia, which is facing its most serio
ESTER Dingley's mum will take a DNA test to identify if the "human" remains found on a mountain path are those of the missing Brit. The hiker from Durham vanished in November last year while climbing the 8,796ft Pico Salvaguardia in the Pyrenees. 5Esther Dingley and her boyfriend
As Donald Trump heads to Phoenix for another rally, Arizona’s secretary of state has a harsh message for him.“Like most grown ups, take your loss and accept it and move on,” Katie Hobbs told CNN. “Nothing that’s going on here is going to change the outcome, and, really, this is n
Pegasus Spying Row: The government has been denying all Opposition allegations over the matterWashington: The US has said it is against the use of spying technology on civil society, regime critics and journalists, even as it maintained that it has no particular insight into the
Stories of abduction, lethal attack and indiscriminate destruction are endless in Haiti's seaside city of Port au Prince, where everyone seems to know someone who barely made it out alive and where many did not, in what rights organizations describe as a particularly dangerous ye
KUNAR: A total of 20 terrorists were killed as fighting planes struck Taliban hideouts and positions in Ghazi Abad district of Afghanistan eastern Kunar over the past 24 hours, the Afghan Army said on Friday. Meanwhile, eight terrorists suffered injuries in the air raids over the
The US government on Friday filed motions in federal courts to dismiss charges in the remaining four cases of Chinese researchers arrested on visa fraud charges last year. A federal judge on Friday morning dismissed a fifth case against a Chinese researcher after the Justice Depa
