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New York made another batch of monkeypox vaccines available on Tuesday, but the appointment site crashed within minutes due to overwhelming demand, health officials said. About 267 New Yorkers have already tested positive for monkeypox, a smallpox-like virus with milder symptoms. Nearly 7,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine have been made available in New York since June 23. Another 14,500 vaccines are expected to arrive later this week. Workers sit outside DC Health’s first smallpox vaccination clinic, which administers the first doses of Jynneos vaccine distributed in the U....

It spreads quickly and is highly contagious. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the presence of BA.5 in the US accounted for 65% of new infections last week. It is also currently the most dominant strain of the COVID-19 virus. The subvariant is the only strain of the virus currently classified as a “variant of concern” by the CDC. BA.5 also happens to be the dominant strain of COVID-19 in New Jersey....

While monkeypox has sometimes caused serious illness in humans, the virus is not as contagious or deadly as the coronavirus. Monkey pox is generally spread through close contact with lesions and skin or with objects that have come into contact with an infected person, such as sheets or towels. Most cases reported so far have involved men who have reported recent sex with one or more male partners, although not exclusively, according to the World Health Organization....

A campaign source told The Times on Friday: “We weren’t installing the phone lines – we didn’t have anything until last Friday.” The revelation of Ms Mordaunt’s approaches to colleagues in January cast doubt on that version of events. She also faced fresh questions about her stance on transgender rights, after a leaked memo appeared to challenge her claim this week that she had never been in favor of gender self-identification....

On July 8, police responded to reports of an assault in the area of ​​Kennedy Road and Steeles Avenue East around 2:15 p.m. Police say a 74-year-old woman was walking from a nearby shopping center to a bus stop when a man stepped off a footpath on the west side of Steeles Avenue. The suspect allegedly ran up to the woman and pulled her hair, causing her to fall to the ground, police say....

Publié à 12:16 Vincent Larin La Presse Dans un long message posté sur Facebook dimanche, le parti du premier ministre François Legault est revenu sur la production de cette publicité, diffusée sur plusieurs plateformes depuis quelques semaines. Cette publication fait suite à la publication, dans les pages du quotidien Le Devoir, d’une lettre d’opinion de la fille de la dame de presque 80 ans, Chantal Landry, selon laquelle sa mère n’aurait pas reçu une compensation financière suffisante pour sa participation à cette publicité dont la diffusion est désormais terminée....

The leaders of Russia and Ukraine held separate talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday about plans to reopen safe grain routes through the Black Sea. Erdogan’s phone calls with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky will boost hopes that he is making progress toward brokering a deal that would allow grain shipments from Ukrainian ports to resume. “President Erdogan noted that it was time for the United Nations to take action on the plan regarding the formation of safe corridors through the Black Sea for the export of grain,” according to a Turkish readout of his call with the Russian president....

bloqué Destiné aux abonnés Cherchant à blanchir l’association Cholet Events, organisatrice du feu d’artifice qui a fait deux morts à Cholet (Maine-et-Loire), le maire a qualifié les spectateurs de “premiers coupables” pour avoir approché l’interdiction de tir, alors qu’aucun périmètre de sécurité n’est interdit. accès. dans cette zone. Les spectateurs qui se sont approchés de la plate-forme de lancement du feu d’artifice, à côté du parc du Moine, ont été qualifiés de “principaux coupables” par le maire de Cholet, Gilles Bourdouleix....

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The stunning conclusion came just 18 seconds into the fifth and final round after Fiziev blasted the former lightweight champion with the punch that put dos Anjos on the canvas. Another shot followed as referee Mark Smith rushed to stop the fight before dos Anjos could absorb any further damage. Immediately afterwards, dos Anjos appeared to be protesting the stoppage. In hindsight, however, the 37-year-old Brazilian had no complaints about the way it ended....

I was given exclusive access to a working-class voter focus group run by Public First, which described Ms Mordaunt as the strongest candidate in the Tory leadership contest and the front-runner to unseat Labour. The group, which was made up of five first-time Tory voters from Wolverhampton, gave a damning assessment of the former defense secretary’s closest rivals, branding Rishi Sunak ‘out of touch’ and Liz Truss as ‘a John Major, gray type character’....

The various plans and talking points that witnesses have revealed also highlight what a president has the power to do. Government and legal experts say the bigger question is: Can further limits be placed on presidential power to ensure they don’t happen again in 2020 under future administrations? WHAT LAWS ARE THE BASIS FOR PRESIDENTIAL POWERS? There are two main laws: the Sedition Act, first enacted in 1792, and the National Emergencies Act of 1976....

Österreich setze sich in multilateralen Gremien für stärkere Standards zum Schutz von Journalisten in Friedens- und Konfliktzeiten ein und unterstütze auch konkrete Projekte, die unmittelbar Betroffenen zugute kommen, erklärte die Außenministerin. Schallenberg wies darauf hin, dass die Bundesregierung der UNESCO im März 100.000 US-Dollar (über 90.600 Euro) an Mitteln der Austrian Development Agency (ADA) zur Verfügung gestellt habe, um die Arbeit von rund 1.000 freien Journalisten in der Ukraine zu unterstützen....

The prospect of global thermonuclear war haunted humanity for 50 years during the Cold War. And while the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s largely relegated such a comprehensive scenario to the relics of a bygone era, the threat never went away. Today, the most likely scenarios include a skirmish along the India-Pakistan border raging out of control, or a nuclear mistake — a computer hack, unstable leader or miscommunication that causes a missile launch....

Nach Angaben des ukrainischen Generalstabs greift russische Artillerie die Stadt Charkiw massiv an und bereitet eine Großoffensive im Osten des Landes vor. Es werden Raketenwerfer und Panzer eingesetzt. Die stellvertretende Ministerpräsidentin der Ukraine, Irina Wereschtschuk, ruft die Zivilbevölkerung im besetzten Süden des Landes zur Flucht auf und sagt, die Ukraine bereite einen Gegenangriff vor. Bei russischen Raketenangriffen auf ein fünfstöckiges Wohnhaus in Chasiv Jar in Donezk wurden 15 Menschen getötet und 23 Menschen werden vermisst....

„Kein anderes Land der Welt stellt eine so große terroristische Bedrohung dar wie Russland“, sagte Selenskyj. Die Suche nach den Vermissten in den Ruinen werde fortgesetzt, sagte der Präsident am Donnerstagabend in einer Videoansprache in Kiew. Es gibt viele Schwerverletzte. Bis Freitag wurden 23 Todesfälle gezählt. https://twitter.com/MFA_Austria/status/1547662388022759425?cxt=HHwWgsCi5b6vs_oqAAAA Unter den Toten seien laut Selenskyj ein vierjähriges Mädchen und zwei Jungen im Alter von sieben und acht Jahren. Auch das österreichische Außenministerium verurteilte den Angriff....

President Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said in a televised statement that he informed Rajapaksa that parliamentary leaders met and decided to ask him to step down and the president agreed. However, Rajapaksa will remain until Wednesday to ensure a smooth transition of power, Abeywardena added. “He asked me to inform the country that he will submit his resignation on Wednesday the 13th because there is a need to hand over power peacefully,” Abeywardena said....