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Stories for December 28th 2021
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Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:35 UTC
UK Parliament Defense Committee report, “we're going to need a bigger Navy”
Britain’s parliamentary Defense Committee has fired a broadside at the government, raising significant concerns about the future size and capabilities of the Royal Navy in a report released this month” and reported by Defense News.
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Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:33 UTC
Venezuelan leader announces trip to Iran sometime next year
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has announced he would visit strategic ally Iran sometime next year following an invitation from his Iranian colleague Ebrahim Raisi to discuss further cooperation between the two countries.
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Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:30 UTC
Israel launches study about the effectiveness of 4th dose of COVID-19 vax
An Israeli heart surgeon has arguably become the world’s first healthy person to get a 4th dose of COVID-19 vaccine, The Times of Israel reported Monday.
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Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:20 UTC
The right enemy a major asset in politics
By Gwynne Dyer – The right enemy can be a major asset in politics, as Chilean voters have just demonstrated once again. All the opinion polls had the two presidential candidates neck and neck before the election, but a few days before the runoff vote it came out that the father of far-right candidate José Antonio Kast was a Nazi.
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Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:13 UTC
US halves quarantine time for new COVID-19 cases
Health authorities from the United States have agreed to cut by half the 10-day isolation period people newly-infected with SARS-CoV-2 needed to go through after catching the disease, it was announced Monday.
