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CAIRO—Two trains collided on Friday in southern Egypt, apparently after someone activated the emergency brakes, killing at least 32 people and leaving 108 injured, Egyptian authorities said. Dozens of ambulances rushed to the scene in the southern province of Sohag, according to a statement by Egypt’s heath ministry. The wounded were transferred to four nearby […]

SUEZ, Egypt—A maritime traffic jam grew to more than 200 vessels Friday outside the Suez Canal and some vessels began changing course as dredgers worked frantically to free a giant container ship that is stuck sideways in the waterway and disrupting global shipping. One salvage expert said freeing the cargo ship, the Ever Given, could

As central banks, including the Federal Reserve, are looking into implementing their own digital currencies, a Republican lawmaker warned of a key risk associated with their adoption, namely whether they could be exploited to curb civil liberties. Nations across the world are mulling developing central bank digital currencies (CBDC) to modernize their financial systems, ward

College students across the United States will take part in a new study that will test how effective Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is in preventing transmission of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. Two separate cohorts of 6,000 students will be followed post-vaccination through questionnaires, daily nose swabs, and periodic blood samples, along with roughly 5,000 people the

OSLO—Norway will delay its decision on whether to resume the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine by up to three weeks, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) said on Friday. Authorities on March 11 suspended the rollout of the vaccine after a small number of younger inoculated people were hospitalized for a combination of blood

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said he believes the CCP virus, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, originated from a Chinese laboratory. “It’s not unusual for respiratory pathogens that are being worked on in a laboratory to infect a laboratory worker,” Redfield said in an interview with CNN on

Former President Donald Trump reacts to President Joe Biden’s first news conference. What does he have to say about Biden’s claim that Trump left children starving at the border? A string of deadly tornadoes ripped through southern states on Thursday. It’s the second tornado outbreak to affect the region in a week.  After the horrific

A Georgia lawmaker, state Rep. Park Cannon (D-Atlanta), was arrested on Thursday and charged with felony obstruction of law enforcement and with “disrupting General Assembly sessions or other meetings of members.” The incident occurred while Gov. Brian Kemp was holding a press conference after he signed into law a sweeping state election reform bill. As Kemp delivered

The mayor of Oakland, California, on Tuesday announced a privately funded program that will give low-income families of color $500 per month in a trial program similar to the “universal basic income” idea that gained national attention when proposed by former presidential candidate Andrew Yang. Under the 18-month long pilot that is to be up

President Joe Biden during his solo first press conference Thursday consulted notes that assisted him with key policy points and data. Read More RSS Feed | The Epoch Times