Britain’s Electoral Commission has opened an investigation into the financing of the refurbishment of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s apartment, saying there were grounds to suspect an offence may have been committed.Eight days before local elections across England and for the election of the Welsh and Scottish regional assemblies, Johnson is facing a stream of allegations about everything from his muddled initial handling of the COVID-19 crisis to questions about who leaked what from his office.”We are now satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that an offence or offences may have occurred,” the Electoral Commission said of the…
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Europe can achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus within the next four months, the head of German pharmaceutical company BioNTech, which developed the first widely approved Covid-19 vaccine with US partner Pfizer, said Wednesday.While the exact threshold required to reach that critical level of immunization remains a matter of debate, experts say a level above 70% would significantly disrupt transmission of the coronavirus within a population.“Europe will reach herd immunity in July, latest by August,” Ugur Sahin, BioNTech’s chief executive, told reporters.His company’s vaccine makes up a large share of the doses administered in Europe and North America, where it…
Egyptian archaeologists working on the Nile Delta have uncovered dozens of rare predynastic tombs dating to the period before Egypt’s Pharaonic kingdoms first emerged more than 5,000 years ago.They also found tombs nearby from the later Hyksos period (1650 to 1500 B.C.), when Western Asian migrants took over the country, putting an end to Egypt’s Middle Kingdom.The findings in the Dakahlia province north of Cairo could shed light on two important transitional periods in ancient Egypt, Egyptologists said.The tombs include 68 from the Buto period that began around 3300 B.C. and five from the Naqada III period, which was just…
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been one of the world’s most prominent opponents of restrictions aimed at curbing the disease, whose effects he has often downplayed. He has encouraged use of medications that scientists say are worthless. AP | | Posted by Harshit Sabarwal, Sao Paulo UPDATED ON APR 28, 2021 04:47 PM IST Brazil’s Senate on Tuesday began an inquiry into the government’s management of the Covid-19 pandemic, a probe that analysts say could jeopardise the reelection of President Jair Bolsonaro.Bolsonaro has been one of the world’s most prominent opponents of restrictions aimed at curbing the disease, whose effects…
The high constitutional court has notified parliament that 44 Syrians have so far submitted their names ahead of Wednesday’s deadline, according to the official SANA news agency. AFP | PUBLISHED ON APR 28, 2021 04:39 PM IST Syria’s parliament was due to meet Wednesday to finalise the list of candidates in next month’s presidential election, which is expected to return Bashar al-Assad for a fourth term.The high constitutional court has notified parliament that 44 Syrians have so far submitted their names ahead of Wednesday’s deadline, according to the official SANA news agency.They still need to garner support from at least…
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Tuesday issued policy guidance instructing officers to defer to previous approvals while extending work visas such as H-1B. The guidance instructs officials to generally defer to prior determinations of eligibility when the same parties and facts are involved as in the initial petition.However, the officers may not defer to a prior approval when there is a material error, material change, or new material facts that adversely impacts the petitioner’s, applicant’s, or beneficiary’s eligibility.The US immigration agency has basically restored its policy guidance issue in 2004 which was rescinded during the Trump…
Beijing recorded its lowest number of births in 2020, official data has revealed, with a top expert saying the Chinese capital’s population could start shrinking from 2022, and China’s by 2027.The change in Beijing’s demographics, a city of more than 21 million people, is an indication that the number of people in China could start to decline six years from now, according to a report published in the tabloid Global Times on Wednesday.The number of newborns in Beijing hit a new low in a decade in 2020, decreasing by 32,000 as against the previous year to a total of 100,368.Not…
Marking his first 100 days in office, President Joe Biden will use his first joint address to Congress to pitch a $1.8 trillion investment in children, families and education that would fundamentally transform the role government plays in American life.Biden will make his case Wednesday night before a pared-down gathering of mask-wearing legislators due to coronavirus restrictions and in a U.S. Capitol still surrounded by black fencing after insurrectionists protesting his election occupied the very dais where he will stand.In the nationally televised ritual of a president standing before Congress, Biden will lay out a sweeping proposal for universal preschool,…
RJ Pierce, Tech Times 28 April 2021, 05:04 am AMD is seeing phenomenal success in recent years. That’s no secret. As their latest sales figures suggest, it seems like they’re only gaining even more ground in the PC hardware market. And this is thanks mostly to the consistent success of their Ryzen line. Guru3D reports that AMD has made USD $3.45 billion in total revenue for the first quarter of 2021. These figures were consistently going up 93% year-over-year since the second quarter of 2019, and were primarily driven by excellent sales in their CPU and graphics departments. Custom sales,…
RJ Pierce, Tech Times 28 April 2021, 04:04 am If you own an NVIDIA graphics card, you need to read this: your Windows 10 PC might be very vulnerable to a cyber attack right now. (Photo : Getty Images)Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. Nvidia Corp. is expected to release earnings figures on February 24. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images According to a report by The Express UK, five individual security issues were discovered in NVIDIA’s recent GPU driver. These can make the computer a sitting duck for attacks like denial of…