‘Vaccine or jail?’: Duterte warns as COVID’s Delta variant surges
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Philippine president also threatens to use ‘shots for pigs’ on Filipinos who refuse to get inoculated against COVID.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to send people to prison for refusing to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, as the government placed the country’s border controls on “heightened alert” over new cases of the Delta variant. “You can choose: you get the vaccine or I will send you to jail,” Duterte said in Tagalog during a pre-recorded address on Monday night. The Philippines began its vaccination programme in March but there have been reports of low turnouts at several vaccination centres in the country, although people are also reportedly scrambling to get the limited supply of the Pfizer BioNtech jabs.
It will be ‘slaughter as usual’ for Israel in Gaza and Lebanon under the incoming Trump administration, analysts say.
A late start, a failure to differentiate herself from Biden, and the loss of key voting groups made victory impossible.
Lebanese officials said dozens of Israel air strikes in the east of the country have killed 40 people, wounded 53.
Polls show Republican and Democratic presidential candidates locked in close fight as Election Day voting set to begin.
In last day of campaigning for Republican, Democratic presidential candidates, polls indicate race couldn’t be tighter.
My grandfather survived the first Nakba in 1948; he didn’t make it to the end of the second – this war waged by Israel.
Trump’s first term showed that while a win for him could help Russia in Ukraine, it would bring its own challenges, too.
The candidates will hold rallies in Nevada today, where Harris will be joined by Jennifer Lopez.