The U.S. government’s first shipment of millions of coronavirus vaccine doses will fall far short of protecting high priority groups such as healthcare workers.
The first shipment is expected to cover inoculations of 3.2 million people, nowhere near enough for the 21 million U.S. healthcare workers.
“In this very fragile situation in relation to famine and in this hopeful moment in relation to conversations, we believe that any other unilateral initiative will probably not be positive. I don’t think we should rock the boat at the present moment," Antonio Guterres said.
The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) was removed from Washington's terror list, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced in a notice posted in the Federal Register.
The spike in cases comes less than two weeks before the presidential election on Nov. 3 and is hitting battleground states such as Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. On Thursday, the United States reported a near-record 76,195 new cases.
H.R McMaster, retired United States Army Lieutenant General and former National Security Advisor for the Trump Administration, was a key eyewitness to the construction of President Trump’s foreign policy, and a critic of how “the last few Presidents” have made the United States vulnerable.
The Palestinian Authority has formally stepped down from a key role in the Arab League, and widely rejected President Trump’s proposals, stating that it would destroy their hopes of attaining a viable independent state.
The sanctions target Hong Kong Police commissioner Chris Tang and his predecessor Stephen Lo; John Lee Ka-chiu, Hong Kong's secretary of security, and Teresa Cheng.
"Carrie Lam is the chief executive directly responsible for implementing Beijing's policies of suppression of freedom and democratic processes," it said.
Nations around the globe are seeing a rise in cases that are damaging economies and forcing protection measures that have disrupted all aspects of life.