Chancellor Angela Merkel has referred to as on MPs to cross laws giving the federal authorities energy to impose Covid restrictions on Germany’s states, after officers criticized the gradual response of some areas to hovering circumstances. ...

Taiwan is “very keen” to work with the US and different “like-minded nations” to discourage China, the island’s president has mentioned, as she met an unofficial delegation from Washington despatched as a “private sign” by Joe Biden. ...

BEIJING — In a uncommon admission of the weak point of Chinese language coronavirus vaccines, the nation’s prime illness management official says their effectiveness is low and the federal government is contemplating mixing them to present them a lift. Chinese language vaccines “don’t have very excessive safety charges,” mentioned the ...

Former UFC ladies's bantamweight champion Miesha Tate is without doubt one of the most profitable feminine fighters on the planet however forward of her comeback to the UFC, she says that holding the world title can take fairly a toll on an athlete. ...

Russian driver Nikita Mazepin has suffered the worst attainable begin to the brand new F1 season, hitting a barrier in a race-ending crash on the first grand prix in Bahrain earlier than being the topic of on-line mockery over his distress. ...

This week was marked by a bombshell dropped by a spokesperson for former US president Donald Trump, Jason Miller, who mentioned that Trump is coming again to social media – however this time on his personal community. ...

UFC light-weight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov has helped dozens of drug addicts to beat their dependancy in his homeland of Dagestan, a neighborhood fighter signed to his Eagle Preventing Championship promotion has mentioned in an interview. ...

Los Angeles Lakers talisman LeBron James has hit out at plans to carry this yr's showcase NBA All-Star Recreation subsequent month - whereas the US continues to file a number of thousand deaths per day on account of the coronavirus pandemic. ...

In a standard world, the Washington Put up claiming the existence of a Russian ‘secret struggle’ towards the US primarily based on far-fetched conjecture and debunked conspiracy theories could be a laughing matter. We don’t stay in such a world. ...

Forward of the beginning of the following Method One season, the Haas F1 crew has been compelled to make very contrasting statements in regards to the two males who will lead them subsequent season, Nikita Mazepin and Mick Schumacher. ...