Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] After the August-18-military-coup in Mali that ousted then President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, the nation has appointed a new president. The retired Colonel Bah Ndaw was nominated for the role, and he named veteran diplomat Moctar Ouane as interim prime minister of the expected 18 month-long transitions. Mali’s transitional leaders […]
Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] In the final game of this year’s NBA season, the Los Angeles Lakers clinched the Championship from the Miami Heat beating them 106-93. With this Game 6 win, the Lakers’ claim their 17th NBA championship. Lebron James, who formerly played for the Heat, was awarded MVP for the season. […]
Rachel Stevens, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s pick for a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy, said she would rule based on the law, not her personal views, in prepared remarks issued on Sunday ahead of her Senate confirmation hearing this week. Barrett, a conservative appeals court judge, said that in her […]
Rachel Stevens, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Johnson & Johnson said on Tuesday it would take a few days at least to hear from a safety monitoring panel about its review of the company’s late-stage COVID-19 vaccine trial after announcing that the large study had been paused due to an unexplained illness in one participant. The […]
Rachel Stevens, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected President Donald Trump’s latest offer on COVID-19 stimulus on Tuesday, in the latest sign that a bipartisan deal on coronavirus relief remains unlikely ahead of the November election. In a letter to colleagues, Pelosi laid out what Democrats view as the shortcomings of […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Over the weekend, residents of coastal Louisiana began repairing the wind and water damage inflicted by Hurricane Delta. This is the second storm to hit the region in two months. Delta made landfall early Friday evening as a Category 2 hurricane with sustained winds of 100 mph. The storm […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] American poet Louise Gluck won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for works exploring family and childhood in an “unmistakable…voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” the Swedish Academy said. Born in New York, Gluck becomes the 16th woman to win the literary world’s most prestigious distinction since the […]
Rachel Stevens, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The Madrid region had 741 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people in the two weeks to Oct. 7, according to the World Health Organization, making it Europe’s second most dense COVID-19 cluster after Andorra. Reuters TV footage showed on Oct. 8 activity at hospitals and primary care health centers in […]
Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Two detained members of a British Islamic State cell were brought before a U.S. court and charged with eight different counts, which include hostage-taking resulting in death and conspiracy to murder U.S. citizens outside of the United States. The two accused, El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey, are part […]
Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The United States issued fresh sanctions on Iran’s financial sector, targeting 18 Iranian banks under U.S. Executive Order 13902 in an effort to further shut Iran out of the global banking system as Washington ramps up pressure on Tehran. However, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement that […]
