Day: January 11, 2022

Fauci Says Senator Rand Paul Is Fueling Threats Against Him

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A Senate hearing on the federal government’s Covid response briefly turned into a fierce back-and-forth between Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday, the latest in a series of heated exchanges between the two men stretching back to the early days of the pandemic. Mr. Paul accused Dr. Fauci of plotting with colleagues to undermine scientists with opposing views on the virus, something Dr. Fauci denied doing. The senator cited an email exchange between Dr. Fauci and Francis Collins, a former director of the National Institutes…

Pet parties: the surprising – and occasionally dangerous – trend for animal birthday celebrations

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Appearance: Either very jolly or entirely hellish, depending on your sensibility. Legality: Woolly. It cannot possibly be illegal for me to have a lovely birthday party for my adorable kitten. Let me ask you this: have you tried throwing a birthday party for a pet in China? Of course not. Well, don’t. A recent party for a dog named Doudou, in the city of Changsha, ended with the police threatening to open fire if something similar happened again. On the dog? No, on any drones used without permission. Doudou’s owner…

Former Xinjiang Security Official Takes Charge of Hong Kong Garrison

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Advertisement China’s military says the former head of internal security in the Xinjiang region will lead the People’s Liberation Army’s garrison in Hong Kong, in the latest of a series of moves aimed at bringing the semiautonomous city under Beijing’s tight control. A brief report on the Defense Ministry’s website Monday said Major General Peng Jingtang’s appointment had been signed by Xi Jinping, China’s president, Communist Party leader, and PLA commander. It said Peng had pledged to “perform defense duties in accordance with the law, resolutely defend national sovereignty, security…

Millions more Chinese people ordered into lockdown to fight Covid outbreaks

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Millions more people in China have been ordered into lockdown and Hong Kong has banned transit passengers from 150 places as China continues to battle outbreaks across several provinces a few weeks before the Winter Olympics. China’s national health commission reported 110 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases for Monday, including 87 in Henan province, 13 in Shaanxi, and 10 in Tianjin. The cases in Henan, which include at least some of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, prompted the lockdown of five million residents in the city of Anyang on Monday…