WHO recommends primary doses and a first booster in healthy adults, children and adolescents with comorbidities.The World Health Organization (WHO) says it no longer recommends additional COVID-19 vaccine booster doses for regular, medium-risk adults, as the benefit is marginal. For people who have received their primary vaccination course and one booster dose, there is no risk in having further jabs, but the returns are slight, the WHO’s vaccine experts said on Tuesday. The UN health agency’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) issued updated recommendations after its regular biannual meeting. Its new advice reflects the impact of the…
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Indonesia’s president says Israel’s participation in the Under-20 football World Cup would bring no change to its foreign policy.Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has said Israel’s participation in the Under-20 football World Cup would bring no change to its foreign policy after the tournament’s draw was cancelled following protests against the Israeli team’s presence in the Muslim-majority nation. Jokowi, as the president is popularly known, underlined Indonesia’s support for Palestine and a two-state solution, adding that Israel’s qualification was secured long after his country won hosting rights. “I hereby guarantee Israel’s participation has nothing to do with the consistency of our…
The Toronto Maple Leafs will ice 11 forwards and seven defencemen again on Wednesday when they host the Florida Panthers. Forward Noel Acciari is listed as day-to-day with an undisclosed injury and will not play. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Having a forward sit out is good news for Toronto’s defencemen. Timothy Liljegren, Erik Gustafsson and Conor Timmins all sat on Sunday while the Maple Leafs won in Nashville, going with 12 forwards and six blueliners. Timmins has not played since Feb. 24 against Minnesota, when he logged 15:46 of ice time. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0…
The Orlando Police Department is investigating an incident involving Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal and a fan in Orlando, Fla., according to reports in the Washington Post and on ESPN.com. The alleged incident occurred after a March 21 game as Beal was walking to the locker room and a fan reportedly yelled, “You made me lose $1,300, you (expletive),” the report states. Reportedly, there was a verbal exchange between Beal and the fan, and Beal walked toward a second man, who made another comment. Beal allegedly swatted his right hand at the second man, knocking the man’s hat off and contacting…
Investigators are searching for clues to better understand the motive behind the latest school shooting in the United States, which left three children and three adults dead at a private Christian primary school in Nashville, Tennessee. Police on Tuesday were poring over what they described as a “manifesto” left by the attacker following the mass shooting at the Covenant School in the city’s leafy Green Hills community. They identified the assailant as 28-year-old former student at the school Audrey Elizabeth Hale. Authorities described the attacker as a woman, although a police official said she “identified” as transgender, without elaborating. Among…
A young woman working at Hugo Palmer’s Manor House Stables, owned by ex-Liverpool footballer Michael Owen, has collapsed and died, police said.The 25-year-old fell ill at around 8.50am on Tuesday at the Manor House Stables, owned by Owen, in Malpas, Cheshire.Emergency services attended the stables, but the woman was pronounced dead at the scene, Cheshire Police said in a statement.The force said the death is not being treated as suspicious and her next of kin have been informed. A file will be prepared for the coroner.Manor House Stables Twitter feed has posted a message, reading: “It is with deep sadness…
For the past year and a half, the Taliban has taken the international community and the Afghan population on a ride – a ride so wild that it has left its own high-ranking officials dizzy as well. The Taliban government has consistently backtracked on promises and stripped citizens of more and more rights. The policies it has introduced have been getting progressively worse – each new policy overshadowing the previous one with its grave consequences. Education for girls and women has been gradually restricted, employment for women has been limited, freedom of expression has been violated, dissidents have been detained…
It was disgracefully dubbed “Operation Iraqi Freedom” by the invading United States military forces, but for millions of Iraqis around the world, it was anything but. Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the start of what then-United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan described more appropriately as an “illegal” war on Iraq by the US and its allies. What we did learn from the war is the abhorrent hypocrisy of labels in conflicts when viewed through a Western lens. This war has, as an Iraqi, plagued my thoughts daily since March 2003. It has left hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead,…
Leading flat jockey Hollie Doyle will make her return to riding on Friday at Newcastle ahead of this weekend’s Lincoln meeting at Doncaster, live on Sky Sports Racing. The Group One-winning rider has been out of the saddle since January following an elbow injury sustained in a fall at Wolverhampton. Doyle enjoyed another memorable season in 2022 with over 150 winners, partnering Nashwa to a first Classic victory as well as landing another Royal Ascot success on Bradsell and further glory on star stayer Trueshan. She is set to make her return at Newcastle, taking the ride on Rhythm And…
At least six Palestinians have been injured after being attacked by Israeli settlers in the Palestinian town of Huwara, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. The town is the site of a settler rampage last month that killed one Palestinian and injured hundreds of others, before Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich called for it to be “wiped out”. Monday night’s attack came a few hours before a Palestinian man succumbed to gunshot wounds he sustained during a large-scale Israeli military raid last month in Nablus. Eleven Palestinians were killed and more than 100 others were injured in what…