[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is banned from attending the Olympic Games as head of his country’s National Olympic Committee (NOC) as part of provisional sanctions imposed by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC banned two other officials from the NOC, including Lukashenko’s son, Viktor, who is the first vice president of the national […]

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said Congress should pass a U.S. coronavirus relief package without either the business liability protections that Republicans want or the aid to state and local governments that is a Democratic priority. “What I recommend is we set aside liability and set aside state and local, and […]

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Tuesday Britain began mass-vaccinating its people in a global drive that poses one of the biggest logistical challenges in peacetime history. Health workers started inoculating the most vulnerable with the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, with the country a test case for the world as it contends with distributing a compound that […]