SEOUL: North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un admitted there had been mistakes in developing the country's economy as he opened a rare congress of the ruling Workers' Party, state media reported Wednesday.The gathering is the first of its kind in five years, only the eighth in the nuclear-armed North's history, and comes weeks before US President-elect Joe Biden takes office.Relations with Washington have been deadlocked since talks between Kim and President Donald Trump and Kim stalled over sanctions relief and what Pyongyang would be willing to give up in return.At the same time the North is more isolated than ever after it closed its borders last January to protect itself against the coronavirus that first emerged in neighbour and key ally China.The congress opened on Tuesday in the capital, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.On the first day of his work review, Kim said there had been "shining successes achieved by our Party and people", KCNA said, but added that he also "analysed the mistakes manifested in the efforts for implementing the five-year strategy for national economic development".North Korea has suffered from chronic economic mismanagement and the plan was quietly scrapped last year, with a party meeting in
LONDON: Britain will allow people to be given shots of different Covid-19 vaccines on rare occasions, despite a lack of evidence about the extent of immunity offered by mixing doses.In a departure from other strategies globally, the government said people could be given a mix-and-match of two Covid-19 shots, for example if the same vaccine dose was out of stock, according to guidelines published on New Year's Eve."(If) the same vaccine is not available, or if the first product received is unknown, it is reasonable to offer one dose of the locally available product to complete the schedule," according to the guidelines.Mary Ramsay, head of immunisations at Public Health England, said this would only happen on extremely rare occasions, and that the government was not recommending the mixing of vaccines, which require at least two doses given several weeks apart."Every effort should be made to give them the same vaccine, but where this is not possible it is better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all," she said.Covid-19 has killed more 74,000 people in Britain - the second-highest death toll in Europe, and health officials are racing to deliver doses to help end the pandemic
I don’t get it. I just can’t figure it out. Of course Raphael Warnock has no business running for a serious political office. Still, he certainly is allowed to try. The man is a phony, a liar, a Jew-hater, a White-hater, a man messed with his wife, a man who would chant “Amen!” to those who would curse America. Still, he is allowed to seek high office, just as prominent haters in other states have done. The thing is, the people of other states see through the masquerades and camouflage. They reject the haters in statewide contests. Are the people of Georgia multiple times more stupid than the people in the rest of America? For example, a hater in Louisiana repeatedly has been rejected by that state’s voters. Are peaches and Coca-Cola more devastating to the brain that beignets and jambalaya? I am a Jew. So I readily regard Warnock as despicable. For me, that part is personal. Anyone who hates Jews — well, howdaya expect me to feel? Indeed, a statement recently was issued by more than 1,500 Orthodox rabbis, under the aegis of the Coalition for Jewish Values, recoiling from Warnock’s years of hatred. But Warnock does not only
