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   The  Saudi Arabian  Ministry of Health  said a vaccine against the new  coronavirus  (  COVID-19  ) would be freely available to everyone living in the Kingdom. "The COVID-19 vaccine will be available to everyone in Saudi Arabia free of charge ... We hope to have enough vaccines to cover 70 percent of the country's population by the end of 2021," said a Health Ministry statement carried by state television station  Al-Ekhbariya TV. Health Ministry spokesman Mohammed Abdelali said in a daily coronavirus press conference, as quoted in  Arabiya English , Tuesday (24/11/2020), said;  "Every vaccine must be safe, effective, and approved by the relevant authorities." To date Saudi Arabia has reported 355,489 confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection, 343,816 patients recovered, and 5,796 deaths. The race to produce a vaccine to fight COVID-19 has produced several leading vaccine candidates. Pfizer and Moderna announced earlier this mo...

The  United States  (US)  military , for the first time, has released footage  of the F-35A  Joint Strike Fighter  stealth fighter jet  dropping an inert or imitation nuclear bomb at speeds exceeding the speed of sound or supersonic.  Actual nuclear weapons testing was prohibited under the 1996 agreement. The the footage, compiled by Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), shows the test flight took place Aug. 25 at the Tonopah Test Range, part of the Nevada Test. and Training Range which also houses Area 51. Video of testing the dropping of an inert nuclear bomb at supersonic speeds was also uploaded to YouTube by  The Drive .  The Pentagon's F-35 Joint Program Office previously published photos in June of another test at Edwards California Air Force Base where the F-35 was also dropped the inert B61-12 nuclear bomb. reference  https://international.s...

       Vijay Nambiar, a retired Indian diplomat who served at the  United Nations , said there was an increasing threat that countries were withdrawing from multinationalism.  He said it was because of the arrogance of many  great world powers .      He stressed that it was time for the United Nations to reform and review its basic structure before it was too late.  Nambiar said there was evidence that countries were moving to find solutions to their problems, approaching other regional and international organizations.      Due to the failure of the United Nations, as many as 34 regional and international groupings have emerged in the world, outside of world bodies ranging from the European Union (EU) to the G7, G20, NATO, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Association of South-East Asian Nations and others.  Also, there are the Nuclear Security Group, the Missile Technology Control Regime, the Australian Group, ...

       Anne Moore, a Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry and Cell Biology at University College Cork, Ireland, revealed a number of "weaknesses" of the covid 19 vaccines .  He said this "drawback" applies to the majority of newly developed vaccines.      According to him, a new vaccine for a new disease means a lot of questions about this.  The majority of those questions, he explained, were still unanswered, at least so far.      "We don't know how long (the vaccine) will last. It's important to understand that it's going to be three months, six months, a few years and only time will tell us that. , "he said, as reported by Sputnik.      "So now we know that it will protect in the short term. Another thing we don't know is what the threshold of the immune response is needed to provide protection," he continued. If a person only needed a small amount such as neutralizing antibodies, he said, then it would likely have...

       South Korea is reportedly considering first tighten some social distancing rules in Seoul and its surroundings.  This step was taken after South Korea reported 300 new cases  in five Covid-19 consecutive days.      South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-Kyun said that officials will discuss whether to enforce stricter distance regulations for the Seoul region as well as the country's southwest region, to curb the spread of Covid-19 .      Under South Korea's coping with Covid-19 guidelines, the level of restriction is determined by certain benchmarks, such as a significant increase in a short period of time, or when the daily national tally exceeds 300 for more than a week.      However, Chung said, the government is studying whether to tighten social distancing rules in some parts of South Korea before it faces more than 300 cases per day. reference https://international.sindonews.com/read/241596/40...

       Many of the United States  (US)  fighter jets , including the new F / A-18E / F Super Hornet, F-16, F-22 Raptor, and F-15C / D Eagle failed to meet their intended mission targets.  This was revealed in a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).      According to the GAO report, about half of all aircraft could not reach readiness standards even one year in the stated duration.  However, the F-15E Strike Eagle can meet its annual mission capability level in 4 out of 9 years.       "GAO examined 46 aircraft types and found that only three met their annual mission capability targets in most of the years for 2011 to 2019 fiscal years and 24 did not meet their annual mission capability targets," said the GAO report, quoted by the  EurAsian Times , Monday ( 23/11/2020).      One of the top three performing aircraft was the US Air Force's UH-1N Huey helicopter, which has been ...