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  The Supreme Court hinted on Wednesday that it is on the verge of significantly curtailing abortion rights in the United States, and that it is likely to maintain a Mississippi law that violates one of the key principles of the Roe v. Wade decision, which was handed down over 50 years ago. It was uncertain if the court would finally overturn Roe, which held that women have a fundamental right to terminate their pregnancies. Mississippi's statute forbidding most abortions after 15 weeks, according to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., is not a "dramatic departure" from viability, and gives women adequate time to decide whether or not to terminate their pregnancies. However, none of the court's six conservative members expressed support for upholding the court's ruling that states cannot prohibit abortion before fetal viability, which is commonly believed to be between 22 and 24 weeks of pregnancy. "Why would 15 weeks be an improper line?" he continued. O

In reaction to the spread of the "extremely contagious" Omicron Covid strain across Europe, the European Commission president has suggested that obligatory vaccination be considered. Ursula von der Leyen, in a call to action, urged the EU's 27 member states should provide booster dosages quickly, and a commission communiqué backed nations that choose to temporarily require pre-travel PCR tests even within the bloc's borders. In the EU, there have been 59 occurrences of the Omicron variation, all of which have featured mild symptoms or have been asymptomatic. Von der Leyen, who worked as a doctor before entering politics, told reporters in Brussels: "We have the vaccines, the life-saving vaccines, but they are not being used adequately everywhere." And this comes at a price... This is going to be a huge health cost.

According to sources in France, French President Emmanuel Macron referred to Boris Johnson as a "clown" in a private chat. According to Macron, the British prime minister has "the attitude of a vulgarian," according to the political magazine Le Canard enchaîné, which is often referred to as the French equivalent of Private Eye. It happened after Macron chastised Johnson for his behavior during a phone call between the two leaders following the drowning of a refugee boat in the English Channel last Wednesday. After Johnson tweeted a letter outlining a five-point plan to address the issue of Channel crossings, the French president was enraged. "I had a serious conversation with Prime Minister Johnson two days ago," Macron said following the tweet during a press briefing on Friday. "I, for one, will continue to do so, as I will with all countries and leaders." When methods aren't serious, they surprise me. On these subjects, we do not communicat

Joe Biden outlined new measures to combat the coronavirus in the United States, including a nationwide push to encourage vaccine boosters, the expansion of at-home diagnostics, and tighter foreign travel restrictions. The US president visited the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, on Thursday, where he set out a pandemic battle plan for the winter months, despite the appearance of the Omicron variety and political blowback from Republicans. After the first US case of the Omicron variety of Covid-19 was discovered in California on Wednesday and a second in Minnesota on Thursday, the campaign has taken on new urgency. During December, the president promised to enhance pharmacy availability, and pharmacy partners will send millions of messages, calls, and emails to eligible customers with information on how to make an appointment or come in for a booster shot. A public education campaign will also be launched to urge adults to obtain boosters, with a particular focus on

The Duke of Sussex has warned that the Covid pandemic will be prolonged by "corporate greed and political incompetence," linking a "spectacular failure" of global vaccination equity to millions of people's struggle to get HIV drugs. Prince Harry said lessons must be learned from the HIV/AIDS pandemic in a letter read out at a World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS event on World Aids Day. Do we truly want to repeat the mistakes of the past? Everything I've learnt from Sentebale's youth [his nonprofit in Lesotho and Botswana] says no. They recognize that repeating these errors is damaging and self-defeating, as well as a betrayal of future generations." He said his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, would be "deeply grateful" to the scientific community for their work in combating the disease. Diana, Princess of Wales, who helped to highlight the work of Aids charities, would be "deeply grateful" to the scientific communit