AstraZeneca is withdrawing its COVID-19 vaccine from worldwide circulation and marketing authorizations. The British-Swedish company recently acknowledged side effects such as blood clots and low platelet counts in court papers, Reuters news agency reported Tuesday. But AstraZeneca said in a statement that the slipping COVID-19 market has become saturated with newer vaccines, hurting Vaxzevria‘s sales. […]
ISTANBUL — Workers, activists and others around the world took to the streets on Wednesday to mark May Day with protests over the pressure of rising prices and calls for greater labor rights. Pro- Palestinian sentiments were also on display. Police in Istanbul used tear gas and fired rubber bullets to disperse thousands of people […]
Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and the streaming wars, movie theaters have had a hard time bringing back audiences ever since 2020. The seemingly endless supply of poorly-received big-budget blockbusters isn’t helping any — the 2023 box office suffered numerous financial failures. One growing trend utilized by an increasing number of theaters, however, seems to […]
Ezra Klein has an interview today with political scientist Jennifer Sciubba who studies demography around the world. She’s the author of a book titled “8 Billion and Counting.” But as the conversation quickly points out, we’re probably only going to be counting upward for a few more decades. Many of the world’s most populous countries […]
Tens of millions of women worldwide are persecuted for their religious beliefs or nonbeliefs, advocates at the International Religious Freedom Summit 2024 say, but their stories often go untold because of their gender. “The research points to the fact that because they’re women, sometimes they’re sold into sex slavery; sometimes there are forced conversions; sometimes […]
A database to show the extent of persecution Christians worldwide face every day has been unveiled in an effort to document the threat that exists to religious freedom. The database was developed by Global Christian Relief, according to their news release. The group said the database “is the first and only events-based global religious freedom […]
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