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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday, the Sun and Mail on Sunday newspapers reported. A spokeswoman for Johnson’s Downing Street office declined to comment on the reports. The Sun said guests were invited at the last minute to the central London ceremony, and said even senior members of Johnson’s office were unaware of the wedding plans. https://youtu.be/m7WSN-zaYTg Weddings in England are currently limited to 30 people due to COVID-19 restrictions. Johnson, 56, and Symonds, 33, have been living together in Downing Street since Johnson became prime minister…

Abu Dhabi Department of Health (DoH) has announced that it will provide free booster jabs of the Sinopharm vaccine against COVID-19. The booster dose will be administered to all those recipients who had received their second dose of the vaccine a minimum of six months ago. As part of its continuous efforts to protect public health, DoH will offer the free booster doses by walk-in at any of the more-than-100 vaccination centres across Abu Dhabi. https://twitter.com/admediaoffice/status/1398549767198752770?s=20

Based on the Civil Service Bureau (CSB)’s instructions 4/2021 regarding the mandatory periodic Rapid Antigen Tests for government employees at workplaces, the Information Affairs Ministry held a training workshop for the period testing team. 20 volunteers and the Ministry’s employees attended the workshop, presented by the international expert, Hassan Al-Nuaimi. The workshop reviewed mechanisms to deal with rapid tests, in addition to the best practices in organising medical testing campaigns and ensuring the safety of employees. It also included practical training for the team on how to take samples and analyse them in a safe and fast manner to ensure…

Chief of the Ministries and Public Entities’ Prosecution said that the Public Prosecution had completed its investigations into the dolphin catching case at Bahrain’s territorial waters, and referred four defendants to trial. Case documents reveal that the Public Prosecution had received a notification from the Coast Guard Command, indicating that some suspects had caught dolphins at Bahrain’s territorial waters in order to hand them over to a dolphin-show facility, in agreement with the latter’s manager. The Coast Guard Command also indicated that it had monitored the handover of one dolphin to the facility’s staff, and that it had found three…

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday. The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978, according to the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation, which said the remains were found with the help of a ground penetrating radar specialist. https://youtu.be/4XNQJswDQuE “We had a knowing in our community that we were able to verify,” Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Chief Rosanne Casimir said in a statement.…

Authorities in Vietnam have detected a new coronavirus variant that is a combination of the Indian and UK COVID-19 variants and spreads quickly by air, the health minister said on Saturday. After successfully containing the virus for most of last year, Vietnam is grappling with a rise in infections since late April that accounts for more than half of the total 6,856 registered cases. So far, there have been 47 deaths. “Vietnam has uncovered a new COVID-19 variant combining characteristics of the two existing variants first found in India and the UK,” Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said, describing it as a hybrid of…

EU approves Pfizer jab for 12-15 year olds The EU’s medicines agency (EMA) has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for 12-15 year olds – the first jab allowed for this age group in the bloc. Individual member states must now decide if they will offer the jab to children. German leaders gave the green light on Thursday. The US and Canada approved the Pfizer jab for adolescents earlier this month. Friday’s announcement came as the World Health Organization (WHO) said Europe needed to speed up its vaccine rollout. WHO Europe director Hans Kluge warned that the pandemic would not be over…

BRAVE Combat Federation’s Muhammad Mokaev is arguably one of the biggest up-and-coming international MMA stars today. The 20-year-old has been standing out from the pack since his amateur days and now, as an undefeated professional Mixed Martial Artist, he’s been drawing more and more attention. But that doesn’t mean that it was all rainbows and unicorns for the MMA prodigy, as he made clear in an exclusive unseen footage from his Road To Greatness interview, a mini documentary produced by BRAVE Films. The level of abdication in order to thrive in the highly competitive Mixed Martial Arts world left some…

The EU’s medicines agency (EMA) has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for 12-15 year olds – the first jab allowed for this age group in the bloc. Individual member states must now decide if they will offer the jab to children. German leaders gave the green light on Thursday. The US and Canada approved the Pfizer jab for adolescents earlier this month. Friday’s announcement came as the World Health Organization (WHO) said Europe needed to speed up its vaccine rollout. WHO Europe director Hans Kluge warned that the pandemic would not be over until at least 70% of the population had been vaccinated.…

Russia said on Friday a U.S. decision not to rejoin the Open Skies arms control pact, which allows unarmed surveillance flights over member states, is a “political mistake” ahead of a summit between the countries’ presidents. The original U.S. decision to quit the pact was taken last year by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, but Moscow had hoped his successor Joe Biden would reverse it. On Thursday, however, the Biden administration informed Moscow that it would not re-enter the pact, accusing Russia of violating it, something Moscow denied. Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, said on Friday that…