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More Countries to Require Travelers Have Booster Shots

A growing number of nations – and one state – are coming up with rules that encourage or require travelers to get a booster vaccine, Forbes reported. Hawaii Gov. David Ige says visitors who’ve received a third vaccine dose will be able to bypass a five-day quarantine without showing a pre-travel negative test, Forbes reported. Ige said the change will be announced soon. Currently, Hawaii says people who are fully vaccinated – having two doses of mRNA vaccines or one dose of another vaccine such as Johnson &…

UAE forces say they intercepted Houthi missile strike, the third attack this month

UBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates says it has intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile that was fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels over an uninhabited area. The UAE's Ministry of Defense said Monday morning's attack did not cause any losses, and the country's civil aviation authority added that civil air operations are now back to normal. "There were no casualties resulting from the attack and the fragments of the ballistic missile fell outside of populated areas," the defense ministry said…

20 years ago, the US coined the phrase ‘axis of evil’. Guess who’s been the most evil since?

Robert Bridge Judging by the way past US leaders have described their rivals, you’d think Washington has been fighting against the likes of Darth Vader. On March 8, 1983, then-President Ronald Reagan branded the Soviet Union, America’s Cold War adversary, as an “evil empire” that was the “focus of evil in the modern world.” Fast forward nearly two decades later to January 29, 2002 and George W. Bush echoed Reagan’s fiery sermon in his State of the Union message when he described North Korea, Iran, and Iraq as rogue states…

Islamic State may have been forgotten, but they are not gone

Anyone remember Islamic State? For a time, they took over large swathes of Syria and Iraq, and their other activities included chopping people’s heads off and committing acts of terror. They were, for a while, front page news almost every day, dominating the TV channels and airwaves. They also managed to export their warped ideology out of the Middle East, which led to a number of terrorist attacks across Europe, including in Paris, Brussels, Nice, Manchester, London, and many, many more. However, they are…