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Saudi Arabia is mandating all pilgrims to get vaccinated against COVID-19 before performing the scaled-back, yearly Hajj in July. Muslims intending to travel to Mecca are pressing Authorities in Tanzania to begin immunizations
The percentage of persons who stated they would be vaccinated against COVID-19 in most of the nations Gallup polled was below 70%
E-Commerce worldwide hit $876 billion in the first quarter of 2021, according to the Adobe Digital Economy Index. Consumers are continuing to purchase online even as stores reopen
Apollinaire Compaoré, Philip Morris International’s representative in Burkina Faso, was accused of sponsoring terrorism through tobacco smuggling in a report released this year
Additional sanctions have been imposed on Burma’s military dictatorship for its deadly response to pro-democracy protests by U.S.
(28 May), Russian Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy told journalists that “to say from the start” that the landing in Minsk of a Ryanair plane flying from Greece to Lithuania on Sunday and the subsequent arrest of blogger Raman Pratasevich was a “forced landing, to condemn it and to impose sanctions without any investigation; this kind of behaviour is absolutely irresponsible”
Despite the fact that there is enough food to feed everyone on the Earth, 746 million people go to bed hungry every night. And 9 million people die each year as a result of famine
Thousands of civilians have fled their homes in the eastern province of Laghman as fighting between Taliban and Afghan government forces rages
In reaction to a recent outbreak of violence against Asian Americans, U.S. President Joe Biden signed hate crime legislation into law. Residents of Little Saigon in Southern California, on the other hand, claim that racism toward Asians is nothing new
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kenya’s Department of Gender reports a nearly quintupling of documented cases of gender-based violence