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Putin Signs Bill Giving Russian Presidents Lifetime Immunity
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed legislation that will grant former presidents lifetime immunity once they leave office.
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Pope Francis Agrees To Beatify Italian Anti-mafian Judge Livatino
Pope Francis has recognized the martyrdom of a slain Italian anti-Mafia judge, paving the way for his beatification, the Vatican said on Tuesday. Rosario Livatino was shot dead by members of the Stidda, the Mafia organization from Agrigento, Sicily, on September 21, 1990, a couple of weeks away before his 38th birthday. Beatification is one step removed from sainthood, or canonization. Following the pope’s decision, Livatino is expected be beatified in a Mass in the coming months. The late judge was a deeply religious man, according to Archbishop Vincenzo Bertolone, the Catholic priest who is promoting Livatino’s sainthood cause at the Vatican. “On his desk, he always had the constitution, the legal codes and the Gospel,” Bertolone said in September to Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian Bishops’ Conference. Pope Saint John Paul II met Livatino’s parents in 1993, just before a landmark anti-Mafia speech in Agrigento, and hailed the judge as “a martyr of justice and, indirectly, of faith.” Pope Francis also paid tribute to Livatino last year. Livatino is the second high-profile Sicilian Mafia victim to be beatified. The first was Father Pino Puglisi in 2013, who was killed by mobsters in Palermo 10 years earlier. In Italy, …
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Trump Rejects US COVID Relief Bill, Calling It ‘A Disgrace’
US President, Donald Trump, on Tuesday rejected a massive Covid economic relief package passed by Congress, branding it “a disgrace” in an act of political brinkmanship less than a month before he will leave office.
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Obama Tells People What To Do As They Await COVID-19 Vaccines
Former US President Barack Obama has advised people to follow COVID-19 prevention protocols while they await vaccines for the virus.
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Vatican: Covid-19 Vaccines OK Despite Link With Aborted Fetal Tissue
The Vatican’s doctrinal office on Monday cleared the way for Catholics to be inoculated with coronavirus vaccines even if aborted fetal tissue was used to develop them.
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U.S FDA Approved Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine For Use
An advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday endorsed a COVID-19 vaccine developed by American biotechnology company, Moderna.
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Why I Won’t Take Russian COVID-19 Vaccine Yet –Putin
President Vladimir Putin of Russia has said that he won’t be taking the COVID-19 vaccine for now.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19.
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Putin Congratulates Joe Biden On Winning U.S. Election
Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on his election victory, one day after the electoral college confirmed that the former vice president won the 270 electoral votes required to unseat President Donald Trump.
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Electoral College: Biden Tells Trump To Concede Defeat
US President-elect Joe Biden has told President Donald Trump to concede defeat after losing the November 3 US election.
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Bomb Explosion Kills Four In Afghanistan
A roadside bomb explosion has killed four civilians in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, Khogyani district, officials said on Monday.
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Thousands Of Trump Supporters Again Rally In Washington
Thousands of red-hatted protesters filled Washington streets Saturday to support Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud, undeterred by the US Supreme Court’s rejection of what may have been his last
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WHO Reveals Only Way COVID-19 Will End In Africa
The World Health Organization, WHO, has said that the use of vaccines is the only way the COVID-19 pandemic can end in Africa.
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US Finally Approves Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use
The US government has finally approved the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use.
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Biden In Leaked Audio Says Republicans Beat ‘Living Hell Out Of Us’
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has reportedly said that the Republican Party “beat the living hell out of us” in the Nov. 3 election, due to calls by Democrats to defund the police.
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Republicans Rejects Resolution Acknowledging Joe Biden As President-elect
Republican leaders in the US congress have rejected a resolution acknowledging Joe Biden as the president-elect, the latest effort by Capitol Hill Republicans controlled by Trump to refuse to accept the election results even though it’s been clear for weeks that President Donald Trump lost.
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UK Begins Vaccination For COVID-19, Boris Johnson Confirms
The vaccination against COVID-19 has on Tuesday commenced in the United Kingdom, the Prime Miniter Boris Johnson confirms.
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Trump’s Personal Lawyer, Rudy Gulliani, Tests Positive For COVID-19
Rudy Gulliani, the former Mayor of New York and personal lawyer of US President Donald Trump, has tested positive for COVID-19.
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China Is Greatest Threat To Democracy Since World War II – US Govt
The United States Government has alleged that the People’s Republic of China is the “greatest threat to democracy and freedom” since World War Two.
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COVID-19 Vaccine WIll Be Free For Americans – Biden
US President-elect, Joe Biden has said that the COVID-19 vaccine will be free for all Americans when it is finally ready.