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Impact of COVID-19 on Africa underestimated — New report warns

New international report on COVID-19 in Africa shows why the impact of the pandemic on the continent has been underestimated until now and outlines what has to be done in light of limited vaccine supply and mounting threat of new virus variants —–New York, USA – 12 May, 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- As the world battles new COVID-19 variants and …

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Germany: CDU, CSU block deletion of “race” from Constitution

The term “race” will remain in the Basic Law for the time being. The plan to delete the controversial word from the German constitution is being blocked by the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Federal Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) announced in Berlin on Monday. Contrary to initial plans, the federal cabinet should have approved the deletion on Wednesday, but it was …

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Germany stops Facebook from gathering WhatsApp data of users

A German privacy regulator banned Facebook on Tuesday from gathering data on WhatsApp users, citing an update to its privacy policy that breaches EU data protection rules by allowing access to a lot more information on the messenger app’s users. The Hamburg data protection officer (Landesdatenschutzbeauftragter), Johannes Caspar, wants to ensure by order that no data from the chat service …

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