by Jim Heath | Dec 20, 2020 | coronavirus, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Health
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has launched an attack on coronavirus vaccines, even suggesting that the one developed by Pfizer-BioNTech could turn people into crocodiles or bearded ladies. The far-right leader, often called the ‘Trump of South...
by Jim Heath | Dec 19, 2020 | Cyber Security, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Trump
Donald Trump has hit out at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for blaming Russia for the huge cyber attack. In a swipe at Pompeo, the one-term defeated president who has had a love-type relationship with Russia and its authoritarian leader Vladimir Putin, tweeted today...
by Jim Heath | Dec 18, 2020 | Cyber Security, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Putin, Trump
A massive suspected Russian hacking campaign that compromised broad swathes of the federal government and private sector is being called a ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ by members of both political parties. The sprawling attack, which went undetected for nearly...
by Jim Heath | Dec 15, 2020 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Joe Biden
Russian President Vladimir Putin today congratulated Joe Biden on having won the American presidential election — more than a month after the Democrat became the U.S. president-elect. Putin had been one of the last major holdouts among world leaders in sending Biden...
by Jim Heath | Nov 24, 2020 | Foreign Affairs
Scotland has become the first country in the world to make period products freely available to all who need them, after final approval was given to a landmark piece of legislation in Parliament today. The measures are intended to end “period poverty” — or the...
by Jim Heath | Nov 24, 2020 | coronavirus, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Health
Sweden has admitted it is seeing no signs of herd immunity slowing the spread of Covid-19 as the number of new infections soars. The Nordic country, whose approach to tackling the pandemic has garnered global attention, registered 17,265 new cases since Friday,...
