US secures deals for 200M more vaccines Biden promised

The US has finalized agreements to secure 200 million more coronavirus vaccine doses, President Joe Biden announced Thursday.  The announcement fulfills a pledge the president made in January to buy 100 million more doses each of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s vaccine. The purchase increases the US vaccine supply by […]

Palestinian group declines to take part in elections

The Islamic Jihad movement announced Tuesday that it will not participate in upcoming Palestinian elections as the polls were being held in accordance with the Oslo Agreement signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel in 1993.  In a statement after the main Palestinian factions began a national […]

Canada’s COVAX vaccine order criticized by opposition

With Canada within hailing distance of 21,000 virus deaths Monday and experiencing a vaccine shortage, the government announced its plan to take 1.9 million doses from COVAX, the worldwide vaccine-sharing program intended mainly for poorer countries. But the decision has met with a firestorm of negativity both from within […]

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