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“When news of our trip broke yesterday, my office received a persistent message from the Chinese embassy telling me to cancel the trip,” Michigan Democrat Reporter Elisa Slatkin wrote on Twitter on Thursday. “The auto industry’s largest supplier of microchips is here in Taiwan, so supply chain issues will definitely be on the agenda.” Slotkin said the side trip to …

WASHINGTON – Five U.S. lawmakers arrived in Taiwan on Thursday to meet with government officials, following a warning from Beijing to stay away from the hotly contested Democratic island. “When news of our trip broke yesterday, my office received a candid message from the Chinese embassy telling me to cancel the trip,” Rep. Elisa Slotkin, D-Mitch, wrote on Twitter. “The …

Washington is on edge as Russia’s military build-up threatens a confrontation, with fears growing after reports that US. Even as the country’s capital becomes quiet ahead of Thanksgiving, the Biden administration has to contend with reports that nearly 100,000 Russian troops are stationed at various locations on the country’s western border, with no sign of the numbers moving. Tensions have …

“It initially looked like some cluster outbreaks, but as of yesterday, the indication came from our scientists from the Genomic Surveillance Network that they were observing a new variant,” Health Minister Joe Fahle said, emphasizing that it is currently unclear where the Variant. – Currently dubbed B.1.1.529 – First emerged. It has so far been detected in South Africa, Botswana …

Fear of coronavirus variant sparks Africa travel curb BBC News WHO calls for special meeting to discuss new Covid variant found in South Africa with ‘a large number of mutations’ CNBC New COVID variant B.1.1.529, which could evade immunity, found in the countries Newsweek Fear of “worst ever” Covid variant as UK ban flights from South Africa – BBC News …

The state of Israel on Thursday informed both administration officials that it had closed a controversial plan to enroll a massive housing project in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Atarot, after a Washington resident, a senior Israeli official confirmed to the Times. In the project, which earlier this week received a preliminary approval from the Jerusalem local municipal planning committee, …

A devastating explosion at a Siberian coal mine on Thursday left 52 miners and rescuers dead about 250 meters (820 feet) underground, Russian officials have said. Hours after a methane gas explosion and fire filled the mine with toxic fumes, rescuers found 14 bodies but were then forced to stop searching for 38 others due to a buildup of methane …

A British government source told the BBC’s Political Editor Laura Kuensberg that talks earlier between Ms Patel and her French counterpart, Mr Dermanin, were positive and that both countries agreed that there needed to be more collaboration between the two. Two governments to help fight people smuggling. Source link

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain and France on Thursday traded charges after at least 27 people were drowned as they tried to cross the canal that divides the two countries into small inflatable boats, a catastrophe that delivered tragic impetus to long-range impetus. Emerging migrant crisis. In the wake of one of the deadliest incidents that has spread on their shores …

Steve Verze, who is 47 and an engineer from Heckney, East London, was given the left eye on Thursday and first tried it for size earlier this month. Moorfields Eye Hospital said in a press release Thursday that the prosthesis is the first fully digital prosthetic eye created for a patient. The eye is more realistic than other alternatives, and …