ARNHEM, The Netherlands – The video of a lion triplet born on Nov 26, 2020, being administered a vaccine against toxoplasmosis and cat flu on Feb 4 has gone viral. The Royal Burger’s Zoo at the city and municipality of Arnhem, in the Dutch province of Gelderland shared the video footage of the cubs getting vaccinated. The video shows how vet Henk Luten, along with other members of the staff, is holding them and weighing the three cubs before vaccinating them. “All the female triplets received their second and final vaccination against cat flu,” said the zoo officials. “They were…
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WAALRE, The Netherlands — An aspiring politician, also a popular Dutch baker, had to step down from the candidature of the upcoming national election after it was revealed that her confectionery items included making erotic cakes which were widely circulated on social media. The baker identified as Jolisa Brouwer, was one of the three candidates for the Islamic Unity Party that represents the Islamic community for the upcoming election. Brouwer hails from the town of Waalre in the Dutch province of North Brabant. “It’s all been blown out of proportion, at the end of the day, they are just cheeky…
PYRENEES, France – The Pyrenees mountain range, stretching across south-western France and north-eastern Spain, has been covered with dust due to a meteorological event, known as ‘blood rain’. It appeared like a Martian landscape as the event took place and was filmed on Feb. 6. The Pyrenees mountain range witnesses snows throughout the year. “We had not seen this incident in the last 30 years. At least not with this intensity,” said The Spanish State Meteorological Agency. The video footage shows how people are amazed to see the entire mountains covered with reddish dust. In some other videos, people are…
ZURICH, Switzerland — A video has been circulating online that has sparked a heated debate whether chivalry is dead after a man stood watching his girlfriend shovel snow around their car at a Swiss ski resort. The footage was shot by Swiss TikTok user and nursing assistant Justyna Spiess from the city of Zurich, who noticed a woman shoveling snow around a car while a man stands and watches her in the Alpine town of Davos on Jan 29. “This is how emancipation works!” she posted on her TikTok post. “I could see that they were a couple, they were…
NEW DELHI — Nearly half a century ago, women of the Raini village in north India had hugged trees as part of a protest. Their aim: to prevent the government from cutting down 2,000 trees earmarked for development projects. They were led by Gaura Devi and the protests were part of the Chipko Andolan — a non-violent movement from the 1970s in which protestors hugged or stuck to trees to save them from loggers. The movement began in the Himalayan region of the state of Uttar Pradesh, which would become the state of Uttarakhand in 2000. In the past three decades,…
PERM, Russia — Russia’s Air Force were seen flexing their muscles when they flaunted the MiG-31BM during a recent military exercise on Feb 5. The entire crew of MiG-31BM supersonic fighter-interceptor aircraft took part in exercise detecting aerial targets. Vladimir Putin’s Air Force conducted the exercise which included coordinating with the land forces while they carried out exercises in the skies above the Perm region. “Flight footage of the MiG-31 fighters” tweeted the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. The training mission involved the testing of the ability to work out maneuvering elements. The training also involved coordination with…
ULYANOVSK, Russia — A wolf escaped from its enclosure and attacked few civilians in the Leninsky district of the Russian city of Ulyanovsk before it was captured by zoo officials and returned to its cage. The wolf initially attacked a couple walking in the park with three daughters who were planning to go sledding. The man who has not been named was reportedly bitten while trying to keep the wolf away from his daughters, who were also attacked. The family had not expected to be attacked by the wolf when they went sledding, and a photograph of their bloodstained inflatable…
India has suspended a plan to allow communications related to public official’s salaries on social media platforms, including WhatsApp, under the new labor codes that would be implemented from April 1. The government’s new app called ‘Sandes’ might have been behind the directive, though the government said it was done because people objected to using WhatsApp due to its new privacy policy. The Sandes app, which the government is bringing to ensure secure communication among its employees, is already being used by a limited number of public officials on an experimental basis before a formal launch. WhatsApp’s policy, announced on Jan. 4,…
YAOUNDE, Cameroon- — A fishing community in Cameroon is racing against time to save Lake Ossa, one of the country’s largest, from a floating fern that thrives in slow-moving, nutrient-rich warm freshwater. The invasive plant — Salvinia molesta— has already covered 40 percent of the lake’s 9,884-acre (4,000-hectare) surface, according to the African Marine Mammal Conservation Organization in Cameroon. The plant is degrading the habitat of rare, protected wildlife, including the African manatee, which is listed as “vulnerable” on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. “The invasive plant doubles in size every 10 days. It…
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) symptoms can be mistaken for vaccine-related side effects during initial days after immunization, according to a study of 4,081 vaccinated healthcare workers in Israel. Published online in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, the study found that 22 of the workers developed lab-confirmed COVID-19 from 1 to 10 days after immunization with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. “Clinicians should not dismiss post-vaccination symptoms as vaccine-related and should promptly test for COVID-19,” write co-authors Sharon Amit, Sharon Alexsandra Beni, Asaf Biber, Amir Grinberg, Eyal Leshem and Gili Regev-Yochay from Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat…