Month: December 2020

Brexit to take full effect as UK leaves EU single market

Brexit to take full effect as UK leaves EU single market

Brexit finally becomes a reality on Thursday as Britain leaves Europe’s customs union and single market, ending nearly half a century of often turbulent ties with its closest neighbours. The UK’s tortuous departure from the European Union takes full effect when Big Ben strikes 11:00 pm (2300 GMT) in central London, just as most of the European mainland ushers in 2021 at midnight. Prime Minister Boris Johnson called it an “amazing moment”, which would make Britain “an open, generous, outward-looking, internationalist and free-trading” country. “We have our freedom in our hands and it is up to us to make the…
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Bout of sciatica forces pope to skip New Year’s masses: Vatican

Bout of sciatica forces pope to skip New Year’s masses: Vatican

This handout photo taken and released on November 4, 2020, by the Vatican Media, shows Pope Francis (C) speaking during a private and restricted weekly general audience in the library of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican as part of precautionary measures against the spread of the Covid-19 caused by the novel coronavirus. (Photo by – / VATICAN MEDIA / AFP) Pope Francis will be unable to celebrate New Year’s masses Thursday evening and Friday morning at St Peter’s Basilica because he is suffering from sciatica, the Vatican announced. The chronic nerve condition that causes hip pain for the 84-year-old…
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Argentines celebrate approval of landmark abortion law

Argentines celebrate approval of landmark abortion law

People react during an anti-abortion rally after Argentina’s Senate voted to legalize abortion, in Buenos Aires, Argentina December 30, 2020. The poster reads: “Abortion is social failure.” REUTERS/Martin Villar  Pro-choice activists celebrated on the streets on Wednesday as Argentina joined a handful of South American nations to legalize abortion, a landmark decision in a country where the Catholic Church has long held sway. Senate president Cristina Kirchner confirmed the vote after more than twelve hours of debate that began Tuesday, sparking scenes of jubilation in the capital Buenos Aires. “Safe, legal and free abortion is law … Now we’re a…
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FHC orders Ebonyi Govt to reopen Crushed Rock shut quarry site

  Samuel Amah, Abakaliki A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, ordered the Ebonyi Government to reopen the quarry site of Crushed Rock Industries Limited, which was shut down recently. Justice Ahmed Mohammed gave the order while delivering judgment in a suit filed by lawyer to the mining firm, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN. Justice Mohammed also awarded N10 million damages against the State Government. FamousReporters gathered that the over 40-year-old company had, on April 23, in its suit marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/451/2020, sued the Ebonyi Government for alleged illegal shutdown of its quarry site. It alleged that its quarry site…
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Apple loses copyright suit against security startup

Apple loses copyright suit against security startup

Customers are pictured inside the Apple shop in Hong Kong on October 30, 2019, a day before the city’s third-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) figures are released. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)A federal judge Tuesday dismissed Apple’s copyright infringement lawsuit against cybersecurity startup Corellium in a case which could have implications for researchers who find software bugs and vulnerabilities. Judge Rodney Smith said Apple failed to show a legal basis for protecting its entire iOS operating system from security researchers. Apple sued the Florida-based startup in 2019 claiming its “virtualization” of iOS software constituted copyright infringement. But the judge…
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AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine approval unlikely in January: EU regulator

AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine approval unlikely in January: EU regulator

(FILES) An undated handout picture released by the University of Oxford on November 23, 2020 shows a vial of the University’s COVID-19 candidate vaccine, known as AZD1222, co-invented by the University of Oxford and Vaccitech in partnership with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca. – Britain on December 30, 2020 became the first country in the world to approve the coronavirus vaccine developed by drug firm AstraZeneca and Oxford University, with a mass rollout planned from January 4, 2021. (Photo by John Cairns / University of Oxford / AFP) /  The coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, which was approved Wednesday…
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Biden, Trump to campaign in Georgia on eve of crucial Senate elections

Biden, Trump to campaign in Georgia on eve of crucial Senate elections

(COMBO) This combination of file pictures created on October 30, 2020 shows Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden in Coconut Creek, Florida, on October 29, 2020; and US President Donald Trump arrives to a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin on October 30, 2020. – Biden and Trump will be holding dueling campaign rallies in Georgia on January 4, 2021, the eve of a pair of crucial Senate runoff elections in the southern state. (Photos by JIM WATSON and MANDEL NGAN / AFP) President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump will be holding duelling campaign rallies in Georgia on Monday, the…
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Yemen airport blasts kill 26 as government plane arrives

Yemen airport blasts kill 26 as government plane arrives

A video grab shows the moment an ordnance hit the airport in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on December 30, 2020, shortly after the arrival of a plane carrying members of a new unity government. – Explosions rocked Yemen’s Aden airport on Wednesday shortly after the arrival of a plane carrying members of a new unity government, an AFP correspondent at the scene said. “At least two explosions were heard as the cabinet members were leaving the aircraft,” the correspondent said. Yemen’s internationally recognised government and southern separatists formed a new power-sharing cabinet on December 18 and arrived…
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