Brazilian senators have voted to recommend charging President Jair Bolsonaro over his handling of the devastating Covid pandemic. A Senate panel backed a report calling for charges against President Bolsonaro including crimes against humanity, after six hundred thousand deaths from coronavirus. The president has maintained he is guilty of absolutely nothing but the crisis has dented his…
President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a message of condolence to United States President Joe Biden, over the death of former Secretary of State, General Colin Powell. President Buhari says he believes that as the first African-American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Powell was a great statesman and a global figure. In a statement by…
A top US college football coach has been fired for refusing to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Washington State University sacked Nick Rolovich, its highest-paid employee, and four of his assistants, for failing to meet a vaccine mandate. The mandate means all state workers in Washington have to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 or lose their jobs. Rolovich,…
American leaders have been paying tributes to former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell, who died of Covid-19 complications aged eighty-four. Leading the tributes is President Joe Biden, who described late Colin Powell as a dear friend with the highest qualities of both warrior and diplomat. On his part;…
The US says it will reopen its borders with Mexico and Canada to fully vaccinated travellers from November. The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that it will allow travel for non-essential purposes through land and ferry crossings. From January 2022, it will also require proof of vaccination for any travel over these crossings, essential…
Authorities in Missouri, United States, have executed a man for three murders in a robbery attack at a store in 1994. Sixty-one-year-old Ernest Johnson was given a lethal injection after the US Supreme Court refused to delay his execution. The Court also ignored pleas by advocates, including Pope Francis, for Johnson to be shown mercy and forgiveness.