US to Get Covid-19 Vaccine First – French Drug Maker

Sanofi, the French pharmaceutical giant, says the United States would get its COVID-19 vaccine first before other countries if it succeeds in developing it. Paul Hudson, Sanofi’s Chief Executive Officer, told Bloomberg news that the US was the first in line to fund Sanofi’s vaccine research. “The US government has the right to the largest pre-order because it’s invested in taking the risk. I have been campaigning in Europe to say the US will get...

Twitter Announces Plans to Allow Employees to Work from Home Forever

The social media giant, Twitter, had announced on Tuesday, its plans to let all its employees who wish to work from home to do so for the foreseeable future. It says this will also be allowed in the post-COVID-19 world. The company made this known in a statement on Tuesday. The company said that the past few months had seen its staff work remotely is proof that it can work. The statement read in part,...

WHO Gives Conditions for Reopening Schools and Workplaces

The World Health organization had given conditions for reopening of schools and workplaces across the world.  The directives were mentioned by the WHO’s Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on Monday while giving his opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19.  The health organization said a comprehensive package of measure is the most effective set of tools used to tackle the virus while the search for a vaccine is ongoing.  The WHO urged decision-makers across the...

5th Anniversary of The African Film Festival (TAFF) Goes Online Due to COVID-19

Since its first edition in Dallas, Texas, 2015, The African Film Festival (TAFF) has grown to become a veritable cultural, education, and entertainment event to showcase African independent films. This fifth Anniversary edition will be hosted entirely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 4-day festival will kick off on Tuesday, June 2nd through Saturday, June 6th with film screenings, online workshops, and training sessions, and TAFF Awards ceremony. Kelechi Eke, TAFF founder, and Executive...

Hundreds Arrested During Hong Kong’s Mother’s Day Protests

Hong Kong Police said 230 people, including children, were arrested on Monday after they responded to a series of pro-independence protests. Critics, however, claimed that they accidentally caught up multiple people out for Mother’s Day. On Sunday, the Police said they responded to several small protests in violation of the law. However, critics said the action actually netted many people, who had simply been enjoying the first evening they have been allowed outside in weeks,...

Legendary Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneer Little Richard Dies at Age 87

(Reuters) – Little Richard, the self-proclaimed “architect of rock ‘n’ roll” who built his ground-breaking sound with a boiling blend of boogie-woogie, rhythm and blues and gospel, died on Saturday at the age of 87. Richard, a Grammy Award winner and inductee to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame whose electrifying 1950s hits such as “Tutti Frutti” and “Long Tall Sally” and flamboyant stage presence influenced legions of performers, succumbed to cancer. “Little Richard died in...

Iran: Virus Deaths Continue to Fall But Capital Remains Hotspot

New figures from Iran’s Health Ministry on Saturday suggest the country’s daily count of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic is continuing to fall. Just 50 new virus-related deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours, ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said on Saturday, down from daily highs of more than 700 in mid-March. Over the same period the country confirmed 1,520 new coronavirus cases, though the majority did not need to be hospitalised, the spokesman told...

Tokyo Games Could Be ‘Greatest Ever’, Says Coates

Senior international Olympics official John Coates said on Saturday the delayed Tokyo Olympics could end up being the greatest Games ever, coming next year as the world emerges from COVID-19 crisis. Coates, Australia’s Olympic chief and head of the International Olympic Committee’s inspectorate for the Games, cited the examples of positive Summer Games that followed the two world wars of the 20th century. The Tokyo Games were postponed for a year to 2021 in the...

Opera Star Sings Britain’s VE Day Hits From An Empty Albert Hall

Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins will stream a concert from an empty Royal Albert Hall on Friday evening, as locked-down Britain marks the 75th anniversary of “Victory in Europe” Day. Millions of people held a two-minute silence while military jets flew over the United Kingdom’s four capitals during commemorations for the end of World War Two on the continent. Events were due to climax with an address from Queen Elizabeth and a gala of war-time songs...

Russian hackers got hold of emails From Merkel’s Constituency Office: Der Spiegel  Hackers

Russia’s GRU military intelligence service appears to have got hold of many emails from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s constituency office in a 2015 hack attack on Germany’s parliament. Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, without citing its sources. The report says federal criminal police and the federal cyber agency had been able to partially reconstruct the attack and found that two email inboxes from Merkel’s office had been targeted.   They contained email correspondence from 2012...

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