This is a summary of 8 AMN articles on the following subjects: Covid19, Syria, WHO, Immigration, Joe Biden, US, Space, SpaceX, Al-Shabaab, Somalia, Terror, Afghanistan, Explosion, Navalny, Russia, Irsael, Police Shooting, Tamra, Myanmar, Sanctions.
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Table of Contents
- Slow COVID-19 vaccine rollout expected in war-ravaged Syria
- Biden to issue executive orders on asylum, legal immigration, separated families
- SpaceX to send first all-commercial astronauts to orbit
- Somalia: 3 al-Shabaab militants killed after mortar attack
- Afghanistan: 1 killed, 2 injured in Nangarhar blast
- D-day for Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny as Russian court considers longer jail term
- Nursing student, suspect killed in shootout between cops and criminals in Tamra
- Joe Biden threatening Myanmar with sanctions
Slow COVID-19 vaccine rollout expected in war-ravaged Syria
Published 2021-02-02 21:21:45 by News Desk in Syria
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The success of the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in war-ravaged Syria depends on their availability and distribution and may initially cover only 3% of the population, a World Health Organization official said Tuesday. Akjemal Magtymova, WHO’s representative in Syria, said the country is eligible to receive vaccines for free through the global COVAX effort aimed at helping lower-income countries obtain the shots. But Magtymova couldn’t say when the first shipment would arrive, how many vaccines were expected, or how they would be rolled out in a divided country still at war. The COVAX rollout is expected… Read on ->
Tags: Covid19, Syria, WHO
Biden to issue executive orders on asylum, legal immigration, separated families
Published 2021-02-02 15:00:08 by News Desk in Americas
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday will order a major review of asylum processing at the U.S.-Mexico border and the legal immigration system as he seeks to undo some of former President Donald Trump’s hardline policies, Reuters quotes two senior administration officials as saying. Biden on Tuesday will also create a task force to reunite migrant families who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by Trump’s 2018 “zero-tolerance” border strategy, the officials said on a call with reporters. Overall, Biden will issue three executive orders dealing with regional migration, legal immigration, and reunifying families, the officials said. As part of… Read on ->
Tags: Immigration, Joe Biden, US
SpaceX to send first all-commercial astronauts to orbit
Published 2021-02-02 14:30:50 by News Desk in Americas
SpaceX announced it will launch the first all-commercial astronaut mission this year to orbit Earth, the US aerospace manufacturer said in a statement on Monday. In addition to flying astronauts for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the company’s Dragon spacecraft is also designed to carry commercial astronauts to the Earth’s orbit, the space station, or beyond, it said. The California-based space transportation services company said it targets “no earlier than the fourth quarter of this year” for its Falcon 9 rocket to launch for the low Earth orbit mission named “Inspiration4”. American businessman Jared Isaacman, the founder and… Read on ->
Tags: Space, SpaceX
Somalia: 3 al-Shabaab militants killed after mortar attack
Published 2021-02-02 14:00:21 by News Desk in Africa, East-Africa
MOGADISHU, Somalia on Tuesday killed three Al-Shabaab terrorists who carried out a mortar attack aimed at targeting a high-level government delegation in the central city of Dhusamareb, local media reported. A barrage of mortar shells fired by the militants on Monday injured a police officer and civilians in Dhusamareb, where the Somali president and prime minister arrived to attend a conference on the country’s next elections. According to the Somali state-run broadcaster, security forces shot dead three attackers, including a senior al-Shabaab member, and injured another. They also arrested two attackers. The state television showed pictures of the arrested militants…. Read on ->
Tags: Al-Shabaab, Somalia, Terror
Afghanistan: 1 killed, 2 injured in Nangarhar blast
Published 2021-02-02 13:45:15 by News Desk in Asia-Australia
Nangarhar, [Afghanistan] At least one border police officer was killed and two more were injured in an explosion in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Tuesday, TOLO News reported citing local officials. According to the officials, the explosion took place in Surkh Rod district when a police vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED). No group including the Taliban has yet claimed responsibility for the blast. (ANI)
Tags: Afghanistan, Explosion, Terror
D-day for Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny as Russian court considers longer jail term
Published 2021-02-02 13:30:29 by News Desk in World-News
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court convened on Tuesday to consider jailing Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny for up to three and a half years in a case that has sparked nationwide protests and talk of new Western sanctions. Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critics, was arrested at the Russian border on Jan. 17 after returning from Germany where he claimed he had been recovering from a nerve agent poisoning in Russia. Navalny accuses Putin of ordering his murder, something the Kremlin denies. It in turn has suggested that Navalny is an asset of America’s Central Intelligence Agency,… Read on ->
Tags: Navalny, Russia
Nursing student, suspect killed in shootout between cops and criminals in Tamra
Published 2021-02-02 13:04:07 by News Desk in Israel
Two men in their 20s were killed Monday night in a shootout between police and underworld criminals in the Arab city of Tamra in northern Israel — one of them a suspect and one an innocent bystander — sparking outrage, protests, and an investigation. The incident began when police forces identified three criminals who were suspected of firing gunshots toward a house. Cops opened fire toward them, with police saying the suspects responded with gunfire from automatic M-16 rifles. One of the suspects was hit and killed by officers in the ensuing shootout, another was wounded and the third escaped,… Read on ->
Tags: Irsael, Police Shooting, Tamra
Joe Biden threatening Myanmar with sanctions
Published 2021-02-02 12:47:04 by News Desk in Americas, Asia-Australia
The newly elected US president Joe Biden faces his first international crisis after the Myanmar military coup, how he responds will be his first real test. Biden pledged “to stand for democracy” on Monday and revive the sanction that was rolled back by Barrack Obama after the Myanmar generals began to implement democratic reforms. The reversal of democratic progress in Myanmar “will necessitate an immediate review of our sanctions’ laws and authorities, followed by appropriate action,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki says after US President Joe Biden called on Myanmar’s military to relinquish power immediately and ordered a review… Read on ->
Tags: Myanmar, Sanctions, US
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