DALLAS (Texas, Usa) – Si è svolto in Texas il consueto appuntamento tradizionale del Ferragosto Italiano. Pur con le ultime maggiori restrizioni per il Covid emanate dalle autorità della città di Dallas e con una giornata caratterizzata da avverse condizioni meteo, numerosi italiani ed Italo-americani hanno partecipato all’evento conviviale grazie all’iniziativa dell’Associazione dei Siciliani in Texas (Saat) e dal Comitato Tricolore per gli Italiani nel Mondo (CTIM), ospitati presso i locali di Cibo Divino Market. →
TORONTO – After last week’s news that 22 million doses of vaccine delivered to Canada are still unused, now Canada is going to buy another 40 million doses of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine over the next two years. →
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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of August 15, 2021, at 4:45pm EST.
On Sunday, health officials in Russia logged 21,624 new infections pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 6.6 million. Of the cumulative total, 89.1% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, Covid-related deaths increased by 816, bringing the total number of fatalities to 170,499.
TORONTO – Experience tells us that some decisions are just bad. Full stop. We all make them. Governments, no matter how powerful or well-intentioned, make, them too. Eventually, they come back to bite us in the rear, so to speak.
The infamous War in Afghanistan is a classic example. What does Afghanistan, 10,000 km from Canada, landlocked and now one of the poorest countries in the world, have to do with us, one might ask? →
OTTAWA – Canada will be a safe haven for more than 20,000 Afghans in a “vulnerable condition”: the Minister of Immigration, Marco Mendicino, announced it on Friday during a press conference with Foreign Minister Marc Garneau, Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan and the Minister of Women Maryam Monsef. A commitment that adds to the initiative put in place for previous thousands of Afghans who have worked for the Canadian government as interpreters and employees of the embassy. →