Europe
The first joint COVID-19 Surveillance Bulletin launched WHO Europe and ECDC
The first joint COVID-19 weekly surveillance bulletin was released on 19 March 2021 by WHO/Europe and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
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Religion retains hold on Australian politics in ‘soft theocracy’
Until Australia becomes a republic, our democracy still embraces archaic religious ideology with institutions that rely on taxpayers to survive, writes Max Wallace. IN 2010, I defined a soft theocracy…
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Iceland recognizes Judaism as an official state religion
The country has only one rabbi, Avi Feldman, who initiated the Chabad Lubavitch of Iceland in 2018. Feldman and the community members have worked hard to gain Iceland's formal approval…
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Covid-19: European Union regulator says…
The EU's drugs regulator said on Thursday that it had found the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was "safe and effective" and was not linked to an increased risk of blood clots.…
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Iceland recognizes Judaism as a religion
Iceland has finally recognized Judaism as a religion. The process took over a year and, despite being home to a small Jewish community, Iceland has never before acknowledged the religion.…
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Madison woman returns library book after 63 years
Madison had been considering the move to a fully fine-free model since 2019, and in August ended most fines and zeroed out overdue accounts, ending the use of a collection…
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Music emanates from soul, not religion: Pt Hariprasad
Lucknow: “As artists, singers, flautists, we never see any differences due to religion with our counterparts,” said Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia on being asked about the Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb and his experience…
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America
With motive still disputed, some point to shooting suspect’s religion, shame
The Georgia man accused of killing eight people at three Atlanta-area spas was, on the surface, like legions of other young men spread out across the South — involved in…
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Europe
AstraZeneca declared safe by European Union regulator
After much debate, the European Union's medicines regulator has concluded that the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is safe to use after several EU countries suspended their rollouts following reports that it could…
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R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe Reflects On Audience Reaction To ‘Losing My Religion’
R.E.M's Michael Stipe recalls that the audience's response to the band's cult hit "Losing My Religion" was the "most powerful feeling" of his life. "You felt it before you saw…