Adding peanuts to young children’s diet can help avoid allergy: study on January 21, 2022Paris: Including peanuts in children’s diets early in life could help stave off allergies against the legume, which can be fatal and affect swathes of youngsters globally, according to a new study Friday. Researchers found that introducing peanut products to babies and infants, and gradually increasing exposure, led to greater tolerance for the common allergen. […]
Russia risks ‘quagmire’ in Ukraine: UK on January 21, 2022Sydney: Russia risks becoming embroiled in a “terrible quagmire” if it invades Ukraine, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is to warn Friday in a speech in Sydney. The UK’s top diplomat will tell Russian President Vladimir Putin that he is on the brink of making a strategic blunder by launching military action and “has not […]
Mexico sees drop in murders in 2021 on January 21, 2022Mexico City: Mexico recorded 33,308 murders last year, marking a 3.6 percent decrease compared with 2020, in a country long plagued by drug cartel violence, official figures showed Thursday. Homicides were on a “downward trend,” Security Minister Rosa Icela Rodriguez said after the second consecutive annual improvement. Murders hit 34,690 in 2019, the highest on […]
South Korean plant poacher jailed in US on January 21, 2022Los Angeles: A South Korean man who traveled around the world stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of plants to smuggle to Asia was jailed in the US on Thursday. Kim Byungsu admitted digging up $150,000 worth of Dudleya succulents from remote parks in northern California. The plant, which grows in bud-like circles and […]
Biden warns of ‘disaster for Russia’ if they invade Ukraine on January 20, 2022Washington: US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he expects Russia to “move-in” on Ukraine but warned that Moscow will pay a stiff price for a full-blown invasion. Biden said he did not believe that President Vladimir Putin wants a war, but said the Russian leader has created a situation that is proving extremely difficult […]
US Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to block Capitol attack document release on January 20, 2022Washington: The US Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by former president Donald Trump to block the release to a congressional committee of documents related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Citing executive privilege, Trump had sought to prevent the records held by the National Archives from being given to the panel […]
Snow falls on Chinese capital as two-week Olympics countdown starts on January 20, 2022Beijing: Beijing was hit by a blanket of snow Thursday, as the Winter Olympics countdown clocked two weeks until the Chinese capital hosts the sporting extravaganza. Temperatures fell below minus nine degrees Celsius (15 degrees Fahrenheit) as commuters struggled to work Thursday morning, with snow dusting roads, buildings, and Olympics venues across the megacity of […]
First aid flights on route to disaster-isolated Tong on January 20, 2022Sydney: The first humanitarian flights departed for Tonga early Thursday, carrying much-needed aid supplies to the volcano and tsunami-devastated Pacific island nation. “A C17 Globemaster left from Amberley Airport Base around 7 am today (2000 GMT),” an Australian defense official told AFP. A second Australian aid flight is due to depart later Thursday. New Zealand […]
Natural immunity more potent than vaccines during US Delta wave: study on January 20, 2022Washington: During America’s last surge of the coronavirus driven by the Delta variant, people who were unvaccinated but survived Covid were better protected than those who were vaccinated and not previously infected, a new study said Wednesday. The finding is the latest to weigh in on a debate on the relative strengths of natural versus […]
UK inflation accelerates to near 30-year peak on January 19, 2022London: British annual inflation accelerated in December to its highest level for almost three decades, official data showed Wednesday, fuelled by price gains for clothing, food, and furniture. The annual rate jumped to 5.4 percent last month after 5.1 percent in November, the Office for National Statistics said in a statement, adding it was the […]