Egypt recently announced a deal between Jordan and Iraq for the establishment of a land route connecting the three countries, in a bid to boost economic and trade relations between them.
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Biomerics Manufacturing officials welcomed Athens leaders to a groundbreaking on a new phase of construction on their property at Athens Industrial Park on Friday.
Travis Sessions, CEO of Biomerics, said he drove in from the company headquarters in Salt Lake City to be part of the event. Athens is like this little, second place we go to that we just have that warm feeling for, Sessions said.
Sessions said the expansion will be a $3 million investment to add on to what had already been built. We re investing money, because it s a great investment, because of the work that s been done here by these employees and this community, he said. You created the value. Now the money is coming to support what you ve done.
U.S. SENATE - Senate Veteransâ Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester (D-Mont.), U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-Ark.), Senate Veteransâ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) announced Monday via press release that they will introduce bipartisan legislation to expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to veterans and their families under the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
The Senatorsâ Strengthening and Amplifying Vaccination Efforts to Locally Immunize all Veterans and Every Spouse (SAVE LIVES) Act would allow VA to provide no-cost COVID vaccination services to all veterans, veteran spouses, caregivers and Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) recipients to the extent that such vaccines are available. The legislation also urges the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to adjust VAâs vaccine allocation based on this increased eligibility pool, as much a