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According to a report, international studies confirm that mRNA vaccines such as Pfizer and Moderna are substantially more effective than traditional vaccines such as Astrazenica and Johnson and Johnson/Janssen against delta and previous strains of covid 19.

According to the report scientific evidence proves that boosting a single Astrazenica shot with Pfizer or Moderna induces around ten times the antibodies than two shots of Astrazenica could.

Reportedly .4% of those tested for covid 19 in Ireland over the past fortnight were positive, amounting to 20,000 cases of which 17% were fully vaccinated.

According to a report, due to reduced health service executive services, covid 19 since the end of 2019 has resulted in an extra 10,000 people waiting for in patient treatment. Reportedly there are 77,000 on the inpatient waiting list and an unprecedented 630,000 are waiting for out patient appointments.

Cancellations of operations and appointments, reportedly a requirement for an as called national public health emergency team was said to be partly due to people being worried about catching covid in hospital though Ireland did not have the onslaught of hospital patients suffering from covid or fatalities experienced elsewhere.

According to some figures the delta variant is resulting in fewer deaths, reportedly nearly zero in the uk where delta is said to account for approximately 99% of covid cases. According to usa figures, delta accounts for more than 90% of cases, the fatality rate was said to be approximately .18%. Reportedly delta may account for 70% of Irish cases. Recent fatalities were said to be related to foreign travel.

According to a report the polish government yesterday voted in a draft law limiting the media ownership and influence of non European contingents. Reportedly the eu have responded by advocating media pluralism and diversity of opinions. The draft is said to have to be approved by the president and the senate.

According to a report Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been accused of genocide at the International criminal court. Reportedly 1,160 people believed to be indigenous have died of the corona virus and Brazilian tribes have accused him of negligence.

Situated in the Hague. the icc is a u.n. institution founded on the Rome statute in 1998 and has been in place since 2002. According to their documentation the icc, extra to national courts are concerned with all matters such as genocide, crimes against humanity, gender equality and workplace culture.

According to a report the assassination of the said to be western backed Afghanistan government’s media officer last Friday has been blamed on the taliban. The assassination of Dawa Khan Manapal, head of the government media and information centre which seemingly provides a u.s. perspective was said to be the latest in a series of assassinations. Reportedly, taliban fighters intensified clashes with Afghan forces last week and attacked militias attached to the government. Zaranje and dozens of districts were said to have been taken back.

According to recent news Herat, a historical city, and Ghazni, 130km from the capital were taken today. Reportedly the Afghanistan government have made a power sharing proposal to the taliban.

According to a report Nick Clegg, former leader of the liberal democrats who served as British deputy prime minister for five years has been Facebook’s vice president for global affairs and communications since 2018 and was said to be taking more of the workload from Sheryl Sandberg, chief operations officer who came to facebook from google and reportedly used the specific data of users to tailor advertising which made facebook highly lucrative. According to the report she failed to deal with criticisms concerning the company adequately and Nick Clegg who was said to have broken into the inner circle is taking on more of her workload.

A criticism of Facebook, a seeming advocate for free speech has been related to the organising of protests that sometimes go wrong. The challenge for Facebook is said to be navigating the political waters internationally. Nick Clegg is described as ambitious and reportedly sees the future of politics and global governance being at the interception of technology.

According to a report, locals and activists held a protest near a New Dehli crematorium where a nine year old girl was hurriedly cremated after allegedly being raped and murdered. Reportedly, nine year old Gudiya had gone out to fetch water. Her mother was told she had been electrocuted after stepping on a wire, and to come to the cremotorium. She rushed to the crematorium and found signs of abuse on her daughter’s body.

According to the report Gudiya’s parents said that their daughter had been cremated to destroy evidence by the thought to be crematorium priest and other men even before Gudiya’s father could arrive.

The priest reportedly said, “Don’t make a noise, don’t shout, or else you will have to face a lengthy court case”. The family is of the Dalit caste. The caste system in India has changed. Reportedly four men have been arrested for rape, murder and wrongful confinement. The case has stirred new protests in New Dehli against grevious sexual violence.

According to reports, most northern Ireland sea checks are suspended until the end of September. Reportedly, a British paper published in July seeks an end to all customs formalities including all sanitary and phytosanitary checks and certificates except for goods prelisted as being destined for southern Ireland. The uk are said to want British products not approved by the eu to trade in northern Ireland and to remove the european commision and the european court of justice from having a part in overseeing the protocol. Instead, according to the report they hope to set up their own international arbitration system to deal with any problems.

Reportedly London recently disclosed that 300 medicines currently entering northern Ireland will be discontinued at the end of the current period of grace.

According to reports heroine with an estimated value of €12.3 million was seized at Rosslare europort. The said to be 88kg load of heroine reportedly the largest ever intercepted in the south of Ireland was discovered using an xray machine. According to a report, intelligence, said to be part of an international investigation into the trafficking of heroine by hiding it in plant machinery lead to a truck and loader of plant machinery being selected for inspection on the dockside of Rosslare. The truck and loader had reportedly travelled in a ferry from a european port, not specified.

According to a report more than 5000 mainly women and children from northern Ireland sought asylum in the south following the introduction of internment without trial in August 1971. Reportedly Irish nationalist houses were burned, according to one source from 1969 leading to the first flight of refugees. According to reports they were mainly put in camps in the south and many didn’t settle.