U.S. Issues ‘Do Not Travel’ Advisories For Spain & Portugal
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and the State Department of the United States of America warned against travelling to Spain and Portugal because of the rising cases of COVID-19 in the countries. The CDC raised its travel advisory to “Level Four: Very High” for those countries telling Americans they should avoid travel […]
LEGO Demands US Company To Stop Producing Glock Pistol Covering Looking Like A Toy
A gun manufacturer in the United States of America has come under controversy when it started selling a gun kit that made a pistol look like a toy. Lego has sent Utah-based company Culper Precision a demand to stop producing the red, blue and yellow covering for handguns. “Our organisation reached out to Lego, which then sent […]
South Korea To Start Own Food Service For Olympic Athletes
South Korea is all set to start its own full-fledged food service for its athletes and delegates from a hotel near the Olympic village in Tokyo, according to a report by the country’s Yonhap news agency. The decision reflects South Korea’s concerns that meals containing ingredients from Fukushima Prefecture, home to the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. […]
Mastercard Banned In India From Issuing New Cards
Mastercard has been ordered from taking in new customers and issuing new cards in India due to their failure of compliance to the country’s regulation as to the way the data should be stored. Authorities have said that the company violated the rules and was given enough time to comply with the new regulation. The […]
Canada Eclipses US In Percentage Of Fully Vaccinated Residents
After lagging behind other developed countries in the early months of the COVID pandemic, Canada has officially surpassed the United States of America in terms of percentage of fully vaccinated residents. According to a report from CTV News’ Vaccine Tracker, 48.8% of Canadian residents are fully vaccinated compared to the 48.1% of US residents. Despite […]
Toyota Cancels Tokyo Olympics TV Ads in Japan
Toyota Motor Corp. was a corporate sponsor of the Tokyo Olympics but it has now decided to pull out of the sponsorships and the Olympic-related ads in Japan. Japanese media speculated Monday that the decision was made because the car manufacturer fears association with the troubled Summer Games, which are deeply unpopular in Japan, may […]
Iran Faces Driest Summer In Fifty Years
The semi-arid country of Iran is facing its driest summer in the last fifty years. The country is on a fast track towards water scarcity and having stressed the role of agriculture in assuring its economic independence, faces an onslaught of threats to its water supply, including climate change, population growth, mass migration, political instability, […]
Boris Johnson Confirms Most British Troops Have Left Afghanistan
On Thursday, Prime Minister of Britain, Boris Johnson, confirmed that most of the British troops have left Afghanistan, almost 20 years after the U.K. and other Western countries sent troops into the country to engage in the “war on terror.” In the statement, Boris went to say that the threat of Al-Qaida has been significantly […]
Did You Know That Vaseline Has Other Uses Than Just For Skin?
We have all seen at least one bottle of Vaseline lying around in our house. It is most commonly used to hydrate your skin and lips and is most used in the winters when the cracks begin to appear on different body parts. The traditional Vaseline, which normally costs about $4, is a multipurpose product […]
Enormous Lake Disappears in Antarctica, Dumps 26 Billion Cubic Feet Water Into Ocean
Within a matter of days, a massive ice-covered lake in Antarctica has vanished, leading the scientific community to a state of panic over the dangerous trends of climatic change and global warming. The event that occurred in 2019 on Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica was only noticed in satellite images. According to the scientists, […]