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BLANTRYE, MALAWI – Malawi expects to receive more than 600,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine soon. In May, the country had to discard 20,000 doses due to a lack of demand. But officials say that when the new vaccine arrives, demand will be high and Malawi will be prepared. Over the next two months, Malawi is expected to receive about 372,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine and about 300,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Experts are warning the country needs to be ready to store and distribute it. In May, authorities burned about 20,000 expired doses of the AstraZeneca

Russian space officials said Friday that a software malfunction had caused the unexpected firing of thrusters on a newly arrived module, moving the International Space Station out of its intended attitude. The incident occurred Thursday, hours after the long-delayed Russian laboratory module, known as Nauka, docked with the ISS.  It took mission controllers nearly an hour to reposition the ISS, which had been bumped 45 degrees out of alignment.  Ground controllers fired Russian thrusters on other Russian elements at the station to fix the positioning. In a statement Friday, ISS Russian segment flight director Vladimir Solovyov said the software failure had

Gvern għan-Nies: Foundations laid for the first frequency converter station as part of the Grand Harbour Clean Air Project   Minister Ian Borg and Parliamentary Secretary Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi visited works carried out by Infrastructure Malta for the Grand Harbour Clean Air Project, where foundations for the first frequency converter station have been laid.   Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects Ian Borg explained that this will be the first frequency converter station for Malta, and one of the first of its kind on a global level.   “Such an initiative is a showcase of how progressive Malta really

  Malta has been a regular contributor to the Anna Lindh Foundation’s (ALF) budget since 2005, supporting the Foundation’s work in cultural dialogue in the Mediterranean.   The ALF focuses its work on combating extremist discourse and radicalisation; promoting an inclusive society; and promoting a culture-based dialogue. As a state that places the Mediterranean at the centre of its foreign policy priorities, Malta sees ALF activities as important to increase dialogue and cooperation in the region.   Malta and ALF have cooperated on several projects over the past years. In 2016, Malta hosted the Med Forum, focusing on youth sector

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa is fighting a strong “third wave” of coronavirus, leading President Cyril Ramaphosa to announce a raft of new restrictions to try to curb the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant.   The president said on national television late Sunday that the Delta variant has now been detected in five of the nation’s nine provinces. “The rapid spread of this variant is extremely serious,” he said.  “It is for this reason that I said I address you on a weighty matter tonight. Even if it is not more severe, the rate at which people are infected

GENEVA – A U.N. report examining systemic racism suffered by people of African descent is calling for an end to impunity for human rights violations by law enforcement, and for accountability and compensation for the victims. The report by the U.N. high commissioner for human rights was mandated by the Human Rights Council in June 2020 in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. The report cites the case of George Floyd, a Black man killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, as a moment of reckoning, not only for the United States, but other nations.   It says