Top news of the week: 29.11.2022.
China censors maskless crowd footage in World Cup broadcasts
As protesters in Chinese cities rage against Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy, TV feeds are edited to avoid crowd scenes
White House health officials: up-to-date vaccines key to move on from Covid
Fauci and Jha comments come amid campaign to encourage public to get the new coronavirus boosters as well as flu shots
Revealed: Tory peer Michelle Mone secretly received £29m from ‘VIP lane’ PPE firm
Documents suggest husband passed on money from PPE Medpro, which secured £200m contracts after Mone lobbied ministers
Hawaii Gov. Ige looks back on coronavirus, tourism shutdown
HONOLULU (AP) — As Hawaii's governor, David Ige faced a volcanic eruption that destroyed 700 homes, protests blocking construction of a cutting-edge multibillion-dollar telescope and a ...
Fauci urges Americans to get Covid shot, as study finds new booster is best yet
The latest booster shots provide better protection than original vaccines, CDC data shows ahead of health official’s retirement
U.S. Says Russia Abruptly Postpones Arms Control Talks
The commission has not met in more than a year, initially because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but has since languished due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
US renews push for COVID boosters as data show they protect
Americans who got the updated COVID-19 booster shots are better protected against symptomatic infection than those who haven’t — at least for now, U.S. health officials said Tuesday. ...
How ‘gaslighting’ became Merriam-Webster’s word of the year
"In this age of misinformation — of ‘fake news,’ conspiracy theories, Twitter trolls, and deepfakes — gaslighting has emerged as a word for our time,” the dictionary company said.