UPI Almanac for Saturday, May 8, 2021
On May 8, 1945, President Harry S. Truman officially declared V-E Day, the end of World War II in Europe.
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On May 8, 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto discovered the Mississippi River. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI | License Photo
Today is Saturday, May 8, the 128th day of 2021 with 237 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune and Saturn. Evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Venus.
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Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Jean-Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross Society/co-founder of the Young Men s Christian Association, in 1828; Harry Truman, 33rd president of the United States, in 1884; Nobel Prize-winning Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek in 1899; filmmaker Roberto Rossellini in 1906; pianist Mary Lou Williams in 1910; blues guitarist Rob
2021-05-08 13:05:58 GMT2021-05-08 21:05:58(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
TEHRAN, May 8 (Xinhua) Iran reported on Saturday 13,576 new COVID-19 cases, taking the country s total infections to 2,640,670.
The pandemic has so far claimed 74,524 lives in Iran, up by 283 in the past 24 hours, the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education said in a written briefing published on its official website.
A total of 2,092,381 people have recovered from the disease or been discharged from hospitals across the country, while 5,545 remain in intensive care units, the ministry said.
The report added that 16,929,609 tests have so far been carried out across the country.
As of Saturday, 1,286,004 people in the country have received coronavirus vaccines, with 262,611 of them having gotten their second doses.
TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the regime of US anti-Tehran sanctions has been shattered. As the head of the (Iranian) government, I declare to the people that the sanctions have been broken and if we are united, the sanctions will be lifted soon, Rouhani was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
The US knows that it has to return to law and assume its obligations pertaining to the 2015 nuclear deal, commonly referred to as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), he said.
He expressed the hope that the ongoing nuclear negotiations aimed at reviving the deal in the Austrian capital of Vienna between Iran and other remaining parties of the JCPOA, namely the UK, China, France, Russia and Germany, will bear results, reports Xinhua news agency.
(Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
The problem between the United States and Iran is that the U.S. just hasn’t been nice enough to those lovable lugs in Tehran who just chant “Death to America” because we’re such meanies, right? That’s apparently the view of Biden’s handlers. The Jerusalem Post reported Friday that “the United States is considering the option of unfreezing $1 billion in Iranian funds to be used for humanitarian aid purposes as a possible goodwill gesture in the attempt to reach a new nuclear deal.”
The unaptly-named Thomas Countryman, who was assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation for six years during the first two Obama terms (we’re in the third now), explained it all for us rubes who still think that forking over large amounts of cash to an avowed enemy might not be the best idea in the world: “If it demonstrates the kind of good faith that can cause reciprocal good faith from the Iranian side,