Monday, February 15, 2021

World News Briefs -- February 15, 2021

France 24: WHO sees 17% drop in cases, but experts say Covid-19 variants pose new threats 

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Thursday a 17 percent drop in new Covid-19 cases worldwide, a trend recorded in all six regions it monitors. 

But this hopeful statistic may mask incomplete data from smaller countries and a lack of understanding regarding new variants of the virus. 

The WHO’s latest tally recorded 3.15 million new cases of Covid-19 worldwide in one week – a 17 percent drop from the previous week and the fourth consecutive week of declines. 

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 MIDDLE EAST 






Turkish President Erdogan accuses US of backing Kurdish militants. 





 ASIA 










 AFRICA 

Ethiopia's secret war in Tigray region: Ethnic killings, rapes, near-starvation reported. 


Guinea declares new Ebola epidemic, five years after West Africa’s deadliest outbreak. 




DR Congo's Tshisekedi names new PM after power struggle. 


 EUROPE 










 AMERICAS 









 TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR 





 ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS 





Jaguar car brand to be all-electric by 2025.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

More than 2.7million Texans are without power after wind turbines FREEZE as coast-to-coast Winter Storm Uri brings perilous ice, heavy snowfall and dangerously low temperatures to 150 million people.


This was a major political battle that Democrats lost and will lose over the next week.

Is it Kursk sized?

Remains to be seen.

This Act of God is laid squarely at the feet of the Democrats since their policy prescriptions were followed. Texas lost 10% of their electrical capacity.

Just think if Texans had Californicated and mandated that all utilities especially furnaces
be electrical and not gas, People would be dying of hypothermia. People still might.

Utility crews are risking life and limb to deice wind turbines using fossil fuel powered helicopters and fossil fuel based deicers.