Now proven against coronavirus, mRNA can do so much more
Updated 1434 GMT (2234 HKT) June 1, 2021
When the final Phase 3 data came out last November showing the mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna were more than 90% effective, Dr. Anthony Fauci had no words. He texted smiley face emojis to a journalist seeking his reaction.
‘Shameful’: Bolsonaro denounced for hosting Copa America amid pandemic
The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has sparked outrage after approving plans to hold South America’s answer to the European championship in his Covid-stricken country despite warnings Brazil is steaming into a potentially calamitous third wave of infections.
The Copa América was originally due to be co-hosted by Colombia and Argentina, but their struggles with deadly street protests and coronavirus put paid to those plans.
Mafia ‘people-slayer’, who had role in over 100 murders, released from jail
Giovanni Brusca’s release is ‘an absolute disgrace’, says mayor of Rome
The man who detonated a bomb that killed Italian anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone in 1992 has been released from jail after serving a 25-year sentence.
Giovanni Brusca, a former member of the Cosa Nostra Sicilian mafia, known as the ‘people-slayer’, walked out of Rome’s Rebibbia jail yesterday.
Brusca remains unable to quantify exact number of murders he has been involved in. “Many more than 100, but certainly less than 200,” he said in a statement in the book, I Killed Giovanni Falcone.
Assassination attempt on Ugandan minister kills 2
The daughter and driver of General Katumba Wamala have been killed after unknown assailants shot at their car. Wamala, now the transport minister, was wounded in the arm.
A former army chief in Uganda has been injured and his daughter and driver killed after gunmen shot at the car in which they were being driven on Tuesday, according to an army spokeswoman and local media reports.
General Katumba Wamala, Uganda's former army commander who is the current minister of transport, was attacked near his home in a suburb of Kampala, the Ugandan capital, military spokeswoman Brigadier Flavia Byekwaso told the Associated Press (AP) news agency.
Over 90 percent of people in war-hit Tigray need food aid
UN’s World Food Programme says hunger levels are increasing in the northern Ethiopian region as it appeals for $203m to scale up the response.
A total of 5.2 million people in Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region, or 91 percent of its population, need emergency food aid, the United Nations has warned.
The warning by the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) came as it appealed for more than $200m to scale up its response in the northern region where nearly seven months of fighting has caused an increase in already high hunger levels.
Canada-wide search urged as children's remains found
Indigenous groups in Canada have demanded a nationwide search for further graves after the discovery of the remains of 215 children.
The Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation announced last week that remains were found at a former residential school set up to assimilate indigenous people.
The find sparked outrage, prompting some in Canada to lay out tiny shoes at makeshift memorials.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged help but gave few details.
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