Posts by Amelia Frost
Moderna Loses $700M US Contract for Bird Flu Vaccine Development
Moderna announced Wednesday that the Trump administration has canceled a major contract worth nearly $700 million for the development of its bird flu vaccine. This decision ends a key pandemic preparedness project started during the Biden administration. In January, Moderna received $590 million from the US government to support clinical trials and build a vaccine…
Read MoreItalian Designer Maria Grazia Chiuri Out At Dior
Dior announced Thursday that Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri was stepping down as artistic director of the French fashion house’s women’s collection after almost a decade on the job. Dior has boomed since Chiuri took over in 2016, becoming the second-biggest brand in the stable of luxury labels owned by French powerhouse LVMH. The 61-year-old…
Read MoreS.African Woman Gets Life Term For Selling 6-year-old Daughter
A South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country. Joshlin Smith went missing in February last year from her home in Saldanha Bay, a fishing town 135 kilometres (85 miles) north of Cape Town, and has never…
Read MoreCalgary Sun Letters to the Editor for Thursday, May 29, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Opinion Letters Published May 29, 2025 • Last updated 53 minutes ago • 2 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney listens to a journalist’s question during a press conference on Parliament Hill following the Cabinet…
Read MoreDua Lipa, Public Figures Urge UK To End Israel Arms Sales
Pop star Dua Lipa joined some 300 UK celebrities in signing an open letter Thursday urging Britain to halt arms sales to Israel, after similar pleas from lawyers and writers. Actors, musicians, activists and other public figures wrote the letter calling on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to “end the UK’s complicity in the horrors in…
Read MoreMacron Decorates Indonesia Leader, Announces Cultural Partnership
French President Emmanuel Macron bestowed Indonesia’s leader with France’s top award on Thursday, before announcing a new cultural partnership with Jakarta on a visit to the world’s largest Buddhist temple. Macron’s trip to Indonesia is the second stop of a three-nation, six-day tour of Southeast Asia that began with Vietnam and concludes in Singapore. After…
Read MoreIsrael Announces Creation Of 22 Settlements In West Bank
Israel announced on Thursday the creation of 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, risking further strain on relations with the international community already taxed by the war in Gaza. Israeli settlements in the West Bank are regularly condemned by the United Nations as illegal under international law, and are seen as one of…
Read MoreForeign Students Seek To Quit Harvard Amid Trump Crackdown
Harvard University has been flooded with requests from foreign students to transfer to other institutions as US President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to ban it from hosting international scholars, a staff member said Wednesday. “Too many international students to count have inquired about the possibility of transferring to another institution,” Maureen Martin, director of immigration…
Read MoreMusk’s Most Memorable Moments As Trump’s Advisor
Billionaire Elon Musk has said he is leaving his role in the US government, in which he was tasked with reducing federal spending, shortly after his first major break with Donald Trump over the president’s signature spending bill. While classified as a “special government employee” and “senior advisor to the president,” the South African-born tycoon…
Read MoreThousands Storm Aid Warehouse In Gaza As Hunger Crisis Deepens
Thousands of desperate Palestinians stormed a United Nations warehouse in central Gaza on Wednesday, with the World Food Programme reporting two possible deaths in the tumult as Israel and the UN traded blame over the deepening hunger crisis. The humanitarian situation in Gaza, where aid has finally begun to trickle in after a two-month blockade,…
Read MoreLee Jae-myung’s Rise From Poverty To Brink Of South Korean Presidency
Lawsuits, scandals, armed troops and a knife-wielding attacker all failed to deter Lee Jae-myung’s ascendancy from sweatshop worker to the cusp of South Korea’s presidency. After losing by a gossamer thin margin in 2022, the Democratic Party candidate has returned to the ballot, and is now poised to replace the political rival he was instrumental…
Read MoreAfrica Elects Its Next ‘Super Banker’
The race to become Africa’s next “super banker” ends on Thursday, with five candidates, including one woman, vying to succeed Nigeria’s Akinwumi Adesina as head of the African Development Bank in a contest that appears too close to call. In 2015 it took six rounds of voting to elect Adesina as president of the AfDB,…
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