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January 05, (THEWILL) - British opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer has tested positive for COVID-19, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. Starmer had been due to face Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a question and answer session in parliament. His deputy, Angela Rayner,...

January 05, (THEWILL) - President of Poland, Andrzej Duda has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating, his chief of staff Pawel Szrot said on Wednesday. “The president is fine, has no severe symptoms and is under constant medical care", Szrot...

January 05, (THEWILL) - While the world is grappling with the highly infectious Omicron strain of COVID-19, scientists in France have identified a new coronavirus strain, B.1.640.2, at the institute IHU Méditerranée Infection in Marseille. Named IHU, the new B.1.640.2...

January 04, (THEWILL) - The President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, and his wife, Isaura Nyusi, have tested positive for COVID-19. The President in a statement on Monday night, said he and his wife were asymptomatic. The statement read, “My wife and...

January 03, (THEWILL) - Cartel group, Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries  (OPEC) has elected Kuwait's former OPEC governor Haitham al-Ghais as new Secretary-general. Al-Ghais, who acted as the first-ever chairman of the OPEC+ Joint Technical Committee (JTC), was elected by...

January 03, (THEWILL) - United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday with mild symptoms. He said he would attend meetings virtually as he quarantines at home for the next five days. Lloyd in statement issued...

January 01, (THEWILL) - The requiem mass for the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu began on Saturday morning in Cape Town's Anglican cathedral, a ceremony he had arranged himself and which he wanted to be sober and simple. The ceremony is...

December 31, (THEWILL) - Have you received any bribes lately? Embezzled from your company? Got any stolen goods? The IRS would like to know if you are an American. Shocked at those questions? Don't, because the United states' Internal Revenue Service...

December 30, (THEWILL) - Germany on Thursday said it would lift in early January strict travel rules for people arriving from countries hardest hit by the Omicron variant of the COVID-19. All countries currently listed in the “virus variant” category,...

December 28, (THEWILL) - Malaysia has lifted the travel ban on the eight southern African countries that first reported the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, who disclosed the development on Tuesday, said given the rapid spread...