Israel confirmed Thursday that it plans to seize a large plot of fertile Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank near Jericho, a move expected to draw even more worldwide rebuke.
Just hours after Wang delivered a press conference on the state of the Chinese economy, the Central Commission on Discipline Inspection announced that he is under investigation for “serious violations of party discipline,” which usually refers to corruption.
“Zika is following the same path. It’s using a very similar mosquito vector introduced into Brazil, a large population area, and now has spread through Nicaragua, Colombia, going through the Mediterranean”.
The tests reinforce concerns about flare-ups of the virus that has killed more than 11,300 people since 2013 in the world’s deadliest outbreak of Ebola.
China’s state-run media has warned Taiwan’s president-elect Tsai Ing-wen against pursuing a pro-independence path and that a formal split from the mainland would be a “dead end”.
Urvoas has been named Justice Minister Wednesday Jan.27, 2016 after Justice Minister Christiane Taubira has resigned, objecting to President Francois Hollande’s push to revoke citizenship from convicted terrorists with dual nationality.
Yet underscoring the strain that continues to exist between the USA and Iran, the Obama administration also announced new penalties Sunday on 11 individuals and entities involved in Tehran’s ballistic missile program.
While the exact correlation between a Zika infection and microcephaly is unclear, officials believe that pregnant women who are bitten by infected mosquitoes may be transmitting the virus to their fetuses through the placenta.
The Aedes aegypti can spread the Zika virus, which is spreading in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean and usually causes a mild illness but is now suspected in an unusual birth defect and possibly other health issues.
The head of the Syrian opposition’s negotiating team said he was not optimistic about upcoming peace talks, casting further doubt on whether the group will attend meetings planned for Friday in Geneva.