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Israel plans to begin easing lockdown on Sunday despite spike in Covid-19 cases

Just cannot discipline themselves as New Zealand did to put Covid-19 behind them.

Israel plans to begin slowly easing its third lockdown, as officials were hoping its vaccination campaign would contain the outbreak of -19 variants. Although has one of the fastest #vaccination rates in the world, the rage of new cases still remain high, greatly due to the new and more contagious variants: the numbers show now a number of infections and of hospitalizations just as high as when Israel’s third lockdown began, as FRANCE 24’s Irris Makler reports from #Jerusalem.

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Peaceful protests grow in Myanmar after military coup despite junta stepping up arrests

#Myanmar residents are staging further protests just days after the country’s army overthrew #Aung Suu San Kyi’s government in a #coup, a move that sparked international condemnation. Hundreds of Burmese are taking part in peaceful protests, including in the tightly controlled capital as well as the country’s biggest city of #Yangon and elsewhere. The army is nevertheless stepping up its crackdown, arresting further officials.

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Home Free – American Pie ft. Don McLean

Actually remember the day… a sad day indeed.

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One of my all-time favorite songs is American Pie, by Don McLean, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. I stumbled across this just released music video with the acapella group Home Free and McLean himself. I absolutely love it and knew I had to share it with all of you!

 

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US leads condemnation as Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi charged after coup – CNA

The US on Wednesday (Feb 3) called on Myanmar’s military to free Aung San Suu Kyi, as the ousted leader was charged after being detained in a coup, while calls for civil disobedience opposing the putsch gathered pace.

The Southeast Asian nation was plunged back into direct military rule when soldiers arrested key civilian leaders in a series of dawn raids Monday, ending the army’s brief flirtation with democracy.

Aung San Suu Kyi, who has not been seen in public since, won a huge landslide with her National League for Democracy (NLD) last November, but the military – whose favoured parties received a drubbing – declared the polls fraudulent.

Source: US leads condemnation as Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi charged after coup – CNA

COVID-19 puts Lebanon on verge of economic, medical collapse – Los Angeles Times

“We’re like a car going flat-out all the time. It’s just too much,” he said. Making things worse, some 30 of his colleagues have left the country in the last few months to pursue better-paying jobs in the Gulf, where nurses can earn more than $2,400 a month — an irresistible offer compared to staying in Lebanon, where many seen their salaries cut or gone unpaid.

The currency crash has also caused problems across the healthcare sector’s supply chains. Importers now wait months for the central bank to pay the bill for subsidized dollar transactions on medical supplies.

Source: COVID-19 puts Lebanon on verge of economic, medical collapse – Los Angeles Times

Pfizer withdraws emergency use bid of its COVID vaccine in India | Coronavirus pandemic News | Al Jazeera – (Too cheap to run a local test?)

India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organization had declined to accept Pfizer’s request for approval without a small local trial on the vaccine’s safety and immunogenicity for Indians, Reuters has reported.

Indian health officials say they generally ask for so-called bridging trials to determine if a vaccine is safe and generates an immune response in its citizens whose genetic makeup can be different from people in Western nations.

There are, however, provisions under India’s New Drugs and Clinical Trial Rules, 2019, to waive such trials in certain conditions.

Pfizer earlier told Reuters its application was supported by data from a global study that showed an overall efficacy rate of 95 percent with no vaccine-related, serious safety concerns.

Source: Pfizer withdraws emergency use bid of its COVID vaccine in India | Coronavirus pandemic News | Al Jazeera

Meet Earthrace, the international organization that protects Costa Rica from poaching | Q COSTA RICA

QCOSTARICA – Land and marine animals have extra help in Costa Rica, with the existence of Earthrace Conservation, an international organization dedicated to the protection of fauna. Earthrace…

Source: Meet Earthrace, the international organization that protects Costa Rica from poaching | Q COSTA RICA

Motivación… — Hassentidoque.wordpress.com

Algo que me parece un ingrediente esencial, en cualquier situación, es como una vitamina de la que todos requerimos, debería venderse en un envase lista para tomarse, pero suele suceder, que de pronto es algo que en muchas ocasiones debe salir de nosotros mismos, no puedes esperar a que otros lo hagan por ti… Suelo […]

Motivación… — Hassentidoque.wordpress.com

If we love our life, we perceive ourselves grateful for what we receive, we will be generating harmony, we can always change or improve the aspects with which we are not fully convinced, we all have the ability to achieve it, just do not forget to have faith in ourselves, have faith that God performs miracles when we ask for them with our whole being, have faith that the collective conscience will be strengthened more and more if each one cooperates with the part that corresponds to us, let us not forget that the actions we generate have reactions around us .