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Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Thursday that the UK’s early response to the COVID-19 pandemic was hampered by China’s lack of transparency, and called for “a fully independent investigation in China” into the origin of the CCP virus. Appearing before the UK Parliament’s Health and Social Care Committee and Science and Technology Committee, Hancock said he did not know whether theories that the virus originated from a lab leak in Wuhan were correct, but he thought an independent probe was “vital” to establish the origin of the pandemic. “It is vital that we have a fully independent investigation in China to find out…

Novak Djokovic moved into the semi-finals at Roland Garros for a 58th showdown with Rafael Nadal, surviving a third-set hiccup to beat Matteo Berrettini 6-3, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 in a match soundtracked by cheers and silence after the players were forced to leave the court so spectators could be persuaded to go home as the national curfew approached. A rowdy crowd had convened for the first night session with fans allowed at this year’s tournament due to the relaxation of restrictions in France and a later 11pm curfew. Although they roared for his opponent, they witnessed Djokovic tear past…

BRUSSELS has been dealt a brutal blow by Swedish citizens after a recent poll showed 76 percent reject the bloc’s demand to adopt the euro. A recent poll issued by Europe Elects revealed 76 percent of Swedish citizens surveyed are adamantly against joining the eurozone. The poll saw 9216 respondents between April 28 and May 27 asked: “Should the Euro replace the Swedish Krona as national currency?”. Only 24 percent of the respondents said yes, while 16.5 percent were undecided. Sweden has been a member of the European Union since 1995. Its accession to the bloc under the Treaty of Maastricht puts the…

Top Republicans on Wednesday asked Dr. Anthony Fauci to explain what they described as an “apparent discrepancy” between his recent testimony before Congress and comments made during a conference years ago. In 2012, Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, described the type of work later done at a laboratory in China as “gain-of-function” research, or enhancement of a virus’s transmissibility, adaptability, or pathogenicity. “What historically investigators have done is to actually create gain-of-function by making mutations, passage adaptation, or other newer genetic techniques such as reverse genetics and genetic reassortment,” Fauci, the longtime director of the National…

Michael Gove acted unlawfully when the government awarded a contract without a tender last March to a polling company owned by long-term associates of his and Dominic Cummings, then Boris Johnson’s chief adviser, a judge has ruled. Mrs Justice O’Farrell, who gave the ruling on the Cabinet Office contract with the company Public First, said: “The decision of 5 June 2020 to award the contract to Public First gave rise to apparent bias and was unlawful.” The ruling is the first in a series of judicial review legal challenges brought by the Good Law Project (GLP) against government Covid-19 contracts awarded with no…

More than 170 health care workers at a Houston, Texas, hospital were reportedly suspended for two weeks without pay this week for choosing to not get the coronavirus vaccine by the hospital’s Monday deadline, which the hospital requires of its workers. The employees will be fired after the two weeks if they don’t get vaccinated, FOX 4 in Dallas reported. Houston Methodist Hospital President and CEO Marc Boom said that 99% of it more than 25,000 workers had been vaccinated by the deadline. “It is unfortunate that today’s milestone of Houston Methodist becoming the safest hospital system in the country is being overshadowed by a…

TOP eurocrat Charles Michel has threatened to slap Britain with trade sanctions unless Boris Johnson backs down in the Brexit row over Northern Ireland. The European Council President said officials are reviewing the “tools at our disposal” if the Prime Minister refuses to implement swathes of Brussels red tape in the region. His remarks come ahead of a crunch meeting of top UK and EU officials in London today. Speaking at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Mr Michel said: “We believe deeply in the rule of law. Pacta sunt servanda – when agreements are reached, they must be implemented in…

A SCATHING internal report has revealed Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission has been blighted by fraud and harassment. Brussels bosses investigated 95 badly behaving eurocrats last year for a vast array of alleged offences, including sending abusive emails, faking invoices and sexual harassment. Despite 84 cases of wrongdoing being sent up to Commission chiefs, just three officials were sacked in 2020. Incredible details of the naughty eurocrats are contained in an internal disciplinary report seen by Express.co.uk. The 12-page dossier of delinquency reveals 20 officials were disciplined, 11 were handed a warning and 48 got away with no repercussions…

The Amsterdam-based Market Information Research Foundation (SOMI) sued the video-sharing platform TikTok on behalf of 64,000 Dutch parents, seeking 1.4 billion euros (about $1.7 billion) for allegedly collecting data from millions of children. Meanwhile, TikTok has updated its privacy policy in the United States with regard to collecting personal data such as facial and voice recognition. According to Dutch media, on June 2, SOMI filed the lawsuit in a court in Amsterdam against the Chinese social media app for violating the European Union’s data protection law. The organization claims that TikTok is collecting the data of children without proper permission, that some videos on…

GOOGLE users have been hit by new terms and conditions this month which allows the tech giant to delete Gmail and Photos accounts. That’s bad enough but it’s worth remembering that WhatsApp also has some similar rules and here’s all you need to know. Google has just changed its terms and conditions which means it can now delete Gmail, Photos and Drive accounts from its online servers without needing permission from the user. This update came into force this month with anyone not using their accounts for a long period of time facing the possibility of losing their content. “If you’re…