What to expect from Saturday s star-studded Vax Live fundraiser nydailynews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nydailynews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
… The pre-taped event brought together celebrities and political leaders at “Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World,” which was recorded May 2. ABC, ABC News Live, CBS, YouTube and iHeartMedia radio stations will broadcast the concert staged at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
Selena Gomez hosted the show, which was attended by several thousand fully-vaccinated concertgoers who cheered on performances by Eddie Vedder, Foo Fighters, J Balvin, H.E.R. and Lopez, who enjoyed a duet with her mom.
Ben Affleck, Chrissy Teigen, Jimmy Kimmel, Sean Penn and David Letterman served as special guest speakers.
Global Citizen said $53.8 million in philanthropic and corporate commitments have already helped procure nearly 10.3 million doses, exceeding the goal for the Vax Live campaign…
Caricom foreign ministers discuss economic recovery after covid19
Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne. -
THE covid19 pandemic and issues related to it were high on the agenda of last week s 24 meeting of Caricom s Council for Foreign and Community Relations that was held virtually from May 6 to 7. Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne was amongst the region s foreign affairs ministers who participated in the deliberations.
In a statement, Caricom said the group discussed the devastating impact of the covid19 pandemic and addressing its public health and economic effects, in particular the need for equitable access to vaccines and to economic recovery financing.
It will be sadly missed.
A little overwrought perhaps, but we are witnessing the inevitable consequence of trying to govern everything from the centre.
Katie Telford, the prime ministerâs chief of staff, appeared at the committee to give her account of who knew what and when, in the military sexual misconduct scandal.
She said the military ombudsman, Gary Walbourne, had pulled aside Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan in 2018 to make him aware of an allegation of personal misconduct against then chief of the defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance.
Telford said she was not aware of the nature of the complaint until it was made public by the media in February of this year.
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The possible revival of trade talks between the European Union and India could be a positive signal for Canada, which, like Europe, has struggled to convince Asia’s third-biggest economy to embrace freer trade.
Various news outlets reported this week that officials from the EU and India were getting close to announcing the resumption of trade talks that have been on ice since 2013. An agreement between the two would be a major development, as it would unite the world’s richest economic bloc with a country that is on track to leapfrog China as the most populous nation on the planet before the end of the decade.