The Atlantic: Is BA.5 the 'Reinfection Wave'?.

"Thirty-five manufacturers around the world have signed agreements to produce generic versions of Pfizer’s Covid pills and sell them inexpensively in 95 lower-income countries that together are home to more than half the world’s people."

"Lawmakers in New Zealand have passed in a near-unaninimous vote a bill banning conversion therapy, the dangerous and discredited practice that seek to change or suppress a person's sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression."

>"A version of a gene that doubles the risk of death from COVID-19 in people under 60 is carried by more than half of people with South Asian ancestry."

>"Over the past decade, Vladimir Putin's resurgent Russia has been a perpetual concern for many in the West."

>"Lawyers and campaigners have drawn up a framework to take action against these coercive practices, says Helena _...Read More_

The world is now engaged in a vaccination program unlike anything we have seen in our lifetimes, and with it, unprecedented scrutiny of ultra-rare but dangerous side effects. An estimated 852 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been _...Read More_

>"The most concerning versions of the virus are not simply mutating—they’re mutating in similar ways."

>"A university is accused of giving traumatising electric shocks in the 1970s to "cure" homosexuality."

[https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/14/middleeast/israel-uae-agreement-trump-intl/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/14/middleeast/israel-uae-agreement-trump-intl/index.html) >"This is not THE Middle East peace deal that has beguiled a generation of American presidents, the one President Donald Trump commissioned his _...Read More_

>"A gay man and a lesbian share their experiences of so-called "gay conversion therapy" in Jordan."

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