Communist Party leaders are overseeing an authoritarian system that prevents local officials from freely sharing information with officials at the national level, they said, and this has had fatal consequences for the world. It is a version of the so-called Chernobyl effect, in which local officials do not tell central …
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New Delhi – India reported more than 64,500 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, bringing the total number of people in the South Asian country that has tested positive for the disease to more than 2.76 million. India remains the third least affected nation, behind the US and Brazil, in terms …
Read More »QAnon groups hit by Facebook crash
Facebook on Wednesday banned about 900 pages and groups and 1,500 ads linked to the pro-Trump conspiracy theory QAnon, part of a sweeping action that also limited the reach of more than 10,000 Instagram pages and nearly 2,000 Facebook groups clicked on ‘ the baseless conspiracy theory that has spawned …
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Read More »Pope Francis warns against prioritizing coronavirus vaccines by social class
Pope Francis warned Wednesday against classified prioritization for administering COVID-19 faxes. The world could emerge from the coronavirus pandemic “or better or worse,” the pontiff said in improvised remarks during a weekly public address in the Vatican. “We need to get out better.” Even with the devastating pandemic, the pope …
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