Name: Another Canadian sentenced to death by China
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Description: A court in China has sentenced a Canadian citizen to death for producing and trafficking methamphetamine. Fan Wei, is the second Canadian to be sentenced to death this year. Relations between Canada and China have been at an all time low, since the December arrest of a Huawei executive in Vancouver. Canada claims Beijing is arbitrarily using the death penalty.

A court in China has sentenced a Canadian citizen to death for producing and trafficking methamphetamine. Fan Wei, is the second Canadian to be sentenced to death this

Another Canadian sentenced to death by China

A court in China has sentenced a Canadian citizen to death for producing and trafficking methamphetamine. Fan Wei, is the second Canadian to be sentenced to death this year. Relations between Canada and China have been at an all time low, since the December arrest of a Huawei executive in Vancouver. Canada claims Beijing is arbitrarily using the death penalty.

Facebook has restored Australian news content on its social media website after signing a deal with three local news publishers. Australians had been barred from sharin

Facebook has restored Australian news content on its social media website after signing a deal with three local news publishers. Australians had been barred from sharing and accessing news on Facebook&nbsp;for about a week.&nbsp;The media deal follows passing of a new law by Australia that mandates tech giants like Facebook&nbsp;and Google to pay local media outlets for using their news content.&nbsp;Facebook said that letters of intent had been signed with independent news organizations Private Media, Schwartz Media and Solstice Media. The financial details have not been made public and the deal is subjected to signing of full agreements within the next 60 days.&nbsp;
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US President Joe Biden believes that it is important to modernise the immigration system which includes making sure that highly skilled workers stay in the US and go th

US President Joe Biden believes that it is important to modernise the immigration system which includes making sure that highly skilled workers stay in the US and go through the proper processes to stay in the country, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said. Earlier, Biden revoked a policy issued by his predecessor Donald Trump during the coronavirus pandemic that blocked many Green Card applicants from entering the US,&nbsp;a move that will benefit many Indians working in America on the H-1B visa.

Twitter has said that it is planning to offer a subscription service, in which users will have to pay for special content from high-profile accounts, as part of an econ

Twitter has said that it is planning to offer a subscription service, in which users will have to pay for special content from high-profile accounts, as part of an economic model. The social media giant announced the potential new 'Super Follows' service at its annual investor meeting, as it is looking out for ways to generate revenue apart from targeted advertisements. However, no timeline has been given for when Super Follows might become a feature, but it is expected to roll-out in the coming months.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II said that her coronavirus jab 'didn't hurt at all' and urged people to get their shot when they are offered. The monarch and the Duke of Ed

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II said that coronavirus jab 'didn't hurt at all' and urged people to get their shot when they are offered. The 94-year-old Queen and 99-year-old Prince Philip received their first doses of the vaccine last month from a household doctor at their Windsor Castle residence, with their age putting them in the priority group for England&rsquo;s coronavirus vaccine rollout. 
Queen in a video call said the jab was swift and it didn't hurt at all. She further said she felt protected after her first dose&nbsp;and has been getting letters from people who have been surprised at how easy it was to take the vaccine.&nbsp;

Dalal Street is feeling the global jitters of rising yields indicating cheap money bets are lowering and inflationary bets rise. Wall Street saw t

Dalal Street is feeling the global jitters of rising yields&nbsp;&nbsp;indicating cheap money bets are lowering&nbsp;and inflationary bets rise.&nbsp; Wall Street saw the biggest fall since October and the&nbsp;nervousness has spread to Dalal Street as well with the Sensex and Nifty both trading much lower in the final day of trade of the week.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Bond yields in the US have now surged back to the pre-pandemic levels and even though it indicates higher growth it signals possible inflation and cost of money rising. The Indian bond markets are also&nbsp;signaling&nbsp;the&nbsp;same&nbsp;.&nbsp;The rupee continues to trade significantly lower to the greenback&nbsp;while brokerages&nbsp;are raising their&nbsp;year end&nbsp;target for the&nbsp;10 year&nbsp;yield as well.&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial and technology continuing to be sore point on Dalal Street mirroring global&nbsp;weakness&nbsp; in&nbsp;sectors.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for supporting Covid vaccine equity.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for supporting Covid vaccine equity. PM Modi's commitment to COVAX &amp; sharing Covid-19 vaccine doses is helping 60 plus countries start vaccinating their healthworkers &amp; other priority groups, he said. The WHO chief added that he hoped other countries would follow India's example. The Indian govt on Thursday said that India has provided close to 362 lakh doses of anti-coronavirus vaccines to various countries, out of which 67.5 lakh doses have been supplied as grant assistance and 294.44 lakh on commercial basis

US President Joe Biden spoke on phone with King Salman of Saudi Arabia and "affirmed the importance" the US "places on universal human rights and the rule of law", the

US President Joe Biden spoke on phone with King Salman of Saudi Arabia and "affirmed the importance" the US "places on universal human rights and the rule of law", the White House said. BBC reported that Biden made the call after reading a forthcoming US report into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The report, due to be released shortly, is expected to implicate the king's son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The naming of the crown prince would put further stress on the US-Saudi relationship.

Global markets under pressure as Wall Street saw the worst sell-off since October.

Global markets under pressure as Wall Street saw the worst sell-off since October. The 500 stock gauge S&amp;P saw the biggest drop in a month sliding&nbsp;2.5%.&nbsp; The tech tumble exaggerated it's losses with the Nasdaq&nbsp;Composite&nbsp;slid 3.5%, this marks it's biggest sell-off since Oct. 28. Marquee names like&nbsp;Alphabet, Facebook, and Apple all fell more than 3%, while Tesla sunk another 8%.
Traders were spooked as the 10 year yield sky rocketed to the highest level since Feb 2020 in what many traders called a flash spike.&nbsp;
Higher rates on the yield signal bad news for corporates&nbsp;especially tech companies that bank of them for lower borrowing rates.&nbsp;

The United Nations and the United States have welcomed the India, Pakistan joint statement on ceasefire along the LOC saying it is a positive step.

The United Nations and the United States have welcomed the India, Pakistan joint statement on ceasefire along the Line of Control saying it is a positive step.
A spokesperson for UN secretary general Antonio Guterres said that the world body chief hopes that the ceasefire agreement would "provide an opportunity for further dialogue".
Reacting to the ceasefire, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki&nbsp;said the deal is a positive step. She added that US keeps encouraging both the countries to keep building upon this progress.

Lady Gaga's dog walker was shot in the chest and two of the pop star's French bulldogs have also been stolen on Wednesday night in Los Angeles, reports said. The two do

Lady Gaga's dog walker was shot in the chest and two of the pop star's French bulldogs have also been stolen on Wednesday night in Los Angeles, reports said. The two dogs were the singer's French Bulldogs named Koji and Gustav and the victim was Gaga's dog walker, an official statement confirmed. The dog walker was walking with three of the star's pet dogs when a gunman shot him once in the chest. The robbers took two dogs and fled the scene. The third dog was rescued by the officers of the area. Gaga has also offered reward money of USD 500,000 for information about the dogs.

The global terror watch dog Financial Action Task Force has said Pakistan will continue in its "grey list" as there are "serious deficiencies" in checking terror financ

The global terror watch dog Financial Action Task Force has said Pakistan will continue in its "grey list" as there are "serious deficiencies" in checking terror financing and the country lacks an effective system to deal with it. The global body against money laundering and terror financing said Pakistan will continue to remain on increased monitoring list. The FATF said that the deadline given to Pakistan has already expired and asked Islamabad to address their concerns quickly. The country is yet to demonstrate taking action against the UN designated terrorists and their associates, it added.

China's National Medical Products Administration on Thursday approved two more Covid-19 vaccines for public use, increasing the number of domestic vaccines approved in

China's National Medical Products Administration on Thursday approved two more Covid-19 vaccines for public use, increasing the number of domestic vaccines approved in China to four.&nbsp;The two newly approved vaccines are made by CanSino Biologics Inc and Wuhan Institute of Biological Products, an affiliate of China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm).&nbsp;They join a vaccine from Sinovac Biotech approved earlier this month, and another from Sinopharm's Beijing unit approved last year.&nbsp;So far, China has not approved Covid-19 vaccines developed by Western drugmakers.

The US govt is expected to release a declassified US intelligence report on Thursday that is likely to point out that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approv

The US govt is expected to release a declassified US intelligence report on Thursday that is likely to point out that&nbsp;Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi&nbsp;in&nbsp;2018,&nbsp;reports said quoting officials familiar with the matter.
The report for which the CIA&nbsp;is the main contributor is part of the&nbsp;Biden&nbsp;administration&rsquo;s policy to realign ties with Riyadh, after years of giving the Arab&nbsp;nation, a pass on its human rights record.
President Joe Biden&nbsp;has read the report and expected to speak on phone with Saudi Arabian King Salman, the father of the crown prince, the country's 35-year-old de facto ruler.

A law has been introduced in the US Congress for countering the Chinese propaganda by creating new sanctions authority against state-backed disinformation networks. It

A law has been introduced in the US Congress for countering the Chinese propaganda by creating new sanctions authority against state-backed disinformation networks. It is based on recommendations from the Republican Study Committee's National Security Strategy and authorises sanctions against the United Front Work Department, which is an overseas influence arm of the ruling Communist Party of China. The bill requires the Secretary of State to examine whether or not the United Front Work Department meets the criteria to be sanctioned under this new authority.

US biotech firm Moderna is set to begin testing a new version of its Covid-19 vaccine that is specifically designed to target an emerging variant of the coronavirus tha

US biotech firm Moderna is set to begin testing a new version of its Covid-19 vaccine that is specifically designed to target an emerging variant of the coronavirus that was first reported in South Africa.&nbsp;Moderna said that it has shipped doses of its variant-specific shot to the US National Institutes of Health for testing. This development is part of Moderna's efforts to counter Covid strains that are circulating and to get ahead of the constantly mutating virus. The South African variant is considered the most dangerous mutation of Covid-19.
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It's as gruesome and revolting as it can get. A man accused of a triple murder in the US sliced one victim's heart from her body and cooked it with potatoes to serve to

It's as gruesome and revolting as it can get. A man accused of a triple murder in the US sliced one victim's heart from her body and cooked it with potatoes to serve to other victims before attacking them, local media reports said. The suspect, Lawrence Paul Anderson, allegedly removed the heart from the body of a neighbor he had stabbed to death, cooked it and served it to his uncle, investigators reportedly told the Grady County Court in Chickasha on Tuesday. He later killed his uncle and his four-year-old granddaughter. Reports said that Anderson cooked the heart to feed to his family to "release the demons".

A real-world test of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine in more than a million people confirms that it's very effective at preventing serious illness or death, even after one do

A real-world test of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine in more than a million people confirms that it's very effective at preventing serious illness or death, even after one dose. The vaccine proved 92 percent effective in a real world study involved 1.2 million people in Israel. Results published on Wednesday showed the vaccine was 92% effective at preventing severe disease after two shots and 62% after one. Its estimated effectiveness for preventing death was 72% two to three weeks after the first shot. It seemed as effective in patients over 70 as in younger people.

Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli has signalled that he has no intention of resigning from his post, a day after the country’s Supreme Court reinstated the diss

Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli has signalled that he has no intention of resigning from his post, a day after the country&rsquo;s Supreme Court reinstated the dissolved Parliament, and ordered the government to summon a House session by March 6. Oli mocked his opponents, Pushpa Kamal Dahal &lsquo;Prachanda&rsquo; and Madhav Kumar Nepal who jointly head a rival faction of the ruling Nepal Communist Party, for distributing sweets after the court verdict. The top court's move comes two months after&nbsp;Oli dissolved the House and called for an early election amid a tussle for power with his rivals in the ruling communist party.&nbsp;

Following in Google's footsteps, Facebook has said that it plans to invest $1 billion to "support the news industry” over the next three years. The social network

Following in Google's footsteps, Facebook has said that it plans to invest $1 billion to "support the news industry&rdquo; over the next three years. The social networking giant, which has been tussling with Australia over a law that would make social platforms pay news organisations, said it has invested $600 million since 2018 in news. Google said in October last year that it would pay publishers $1 billion over the next three years. News companies want Google and Facebook to pay for the news that appears on their platforms.

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday revoked an order from his predecessor Donald Trump that blocked many green card applicants from entering the United States. Trump is

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday revoked an order from his predecessor Donald Trump that blocked many green card applicants from entering the United States. Trump issued the ban last year, saying it was needed to protect US workers amid high unemployment due to the coronavirus pandemic. Biden on Wednesday rescinded the visa ban. He said it had prevented families from reuniting in the United States and harmed US businesses.

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