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Kids under 5 can now be vaccinated against Covid: US FDA
For the Moderna Covid vaccine, the FDA amended the emergency use authorisation (EUA) to include use of the vaccine in individuals 6 months to 17 years of age. The vaccine had been authorised for use in adults 18 years of age and older. For the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the FDA amended the EUA to include use of the vaccine in individuals 6 months to 4 years of age.
Bipartisan gun law hits bumps as Democrats, Republicans divided on provisions
Speaking at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday in favour of the new gun violence legislation, health and law experts, law enforcement personnel, and a parent of a school shooting victim spoke strongly for the law, but also opined that a bipartisan deal being negotiated in the Congress doesn't go far enough, said USA Today in a special dispatch.
US police solve year-old killing of Indian-origin businessman while another shot dead
Preyas Patel and an employee were found shot dead inside a store in Newport News city in Virginia on Wednesday, WTKR TV reported. And in Lindenhurst in New York, police, who persisted in pursuing the killing of Kinshuk Patel with a machete in his store, finally arrested the suspect, WCBS TV reported on Thursday.
Biden calls on US to acknowledge and condemn history of slavery
Biden, in a proclamation on Juneteenth Day, said, "This Juneteenth, we are freshly reminded that the poisonous ideology of racism has not yet been defeated -- it only hides." The federal holiday came a month after a white male fatally shot 10 African Americans at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York in a racist attack, Xinhua news agency reported.
With no fuel to travel, Sri Lanka declares two weeks' WFH for govt staff
The Ministry of Home Affairs issued a circular on Friday urging all government institutions to limit the number of employees and arrange for a two-week WFH programme starting next Monday. However, ministry secretaries, heads of state departments and institutions have been empowered to decide on the minimum number of staff to ensure that public services continue uninterrupted.
Controversy in Nepal over joining US-led State Partnership Program
Nepal wrote a letter first in 2015 and then again 2017 to join the SPP which was later included as part of the Indo-Pacific Strategy by the US Department of Defense in 2019. Since then, several debates and deliberations have taken place as to whether Nepal should join the SPP as Kathmandu has been saying that it will not join any military bloc or alliance.
Pakistan hopeful of getting off FATF grey list
The Pakistani delegation headed by Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Hina Rabbani Khar, who also heads the country's National FATF Coordination Committee, is in Berlin and is optimistic about the country's removal from the grey list as it has complied with most of the pointers of the action plan, handed over by FATF to Pakistan.
Dragging Ukraine into NATO was a criminal act: Lavrov
As the Minister reiterated Russia's repeated claim that there were Nazis in Ukraine, he was asked about an official UN report about Yahidne village in Ukraine's Chernihiv region, where "360 residents, including 74 children and five persons with disabilities, were forced by Russian armed forces to stay for 28 days in the basement of a school" and if that was "fighting Nazis?"
Chinese Prez to host 14th BRICS Summit
Spokesperson Hua Chunying said President Xi will host the High-level Dialogue on Global Development in Beijing on June 24. The Dialogue will be held in virtual format under the theme of "Foster a Global Development Partnership for the New Era to Jointly Implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", and BRICS leaders and leaders of relevant emerging markets and developing countries will attend the event.
President Zelensky, European leaders discuss Ukraine's EU integration
At the meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Zelensky briefed the European leaders about the situation on the frontline and the needs of the Ukrainian armed forces in the conflict with Russia, Xinhua news agency reported. Ukraine expects fresh supplies of heavy weapons, modern jet artillery and missile defense systems from its partners, Zelensky said.
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