Macron pledges to share vaccines with poorer nations, urges G7 to join him
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19/02/2021 - 13:01 French President Emmanuel Macron wants rich western nations to provide Covid vaccines for the world s poor. AP - Ludovic Marin 4 min French President Emmanuel Macron has called on rich Western nations to transfer 3-5 percent of their Covid-19 vaccines to Africa and developing countries elsewhere, ahead of Friday s G7 summit. The presidency confirmed that France would share five percent of its stock with Africa – even if other rich nations do not join in. Advertising
In an interview with London-based
Financial Times, President Macron argues that failure to share vaccines will worsen global inequality. He says it is out of the question to leave the poorer nations by the wayside.
French President Emmanuel Macron has called on rich Western nations to transfer 3-5 percent of their Covid-19 vaccines to Africa and developing countries elsewhere, ahead of Friday s G7 summit.
According to a report published in October in London-based
Financial Times newspaper, Pakistan also asked the British government to repatriate Nawaz Sharif through a letter that Adviser to the PM on Accountability Mirza Shehzad Akbar wrote to British Home Secretary Priti Patel.
In the letter, Akbar wrote that Sharif “has been responsible for pillaging the state and I trust that you will be supportive of our efforts to bring those responsible for corruption to account”. He added that the home secretary was “duty bound” to deport the former prime minister.
However, some experts believe it will be Nawaz Sharif who will benefit from a decision not to renew his passport. They said even if Nawaz’s passport is not renewed, the British government may give an extension in his visa. They said the UK government has done that in the case of PML-N leader Ishaq Dar.
Beijing seeks to buy more clout on the eastern edge of the EU
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11/02/2021 - 10:36 Slovakia s President Zuzana Caputova, left, Poland s President Andrzej Duda, second left, Hungary s President Janos Ader and Czech Republic s President Milos Zeman, right, attend the Visegrad Group presidents two-day summit with the presidents of Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic marking 30 years of the Visegrad Group, an informal body of political and economic cooperation in the region, at the presidential residence in the Hel Peninsula, Poland, on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. AP - Jakub Szymczuk 7 min Two meetings this week in Eastern Europe suggest that China s influence is decreasing in the EU, in the wake of more than a year of growing scepticism about Beijing s policies. Meanwhile, the European Union is giving mixed signals to countries on its eastern fringes, and does not seem to have a clear policy. What are the
New international travel rules issued by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) should help provide a boost to tourism in Puerto Rico, as the island is exempt.
The same is true of the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI). Since Puerto Rico and the USVI are U.S. territories, the new rules do not apply for travel from Puerto Rico and the USVI to mainland destinations.
The new requirement, effective Jan. 26, states that all international air travelers entering the United States must produce a negative COVID-19 test taken within three days of their arrival. If the person has already recovered from the coronavirus, evidence should be presented to the proper authorities in lieu of the negative test.