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Oct 14, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Mark Armstrong |Laura Pone
On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a statement granting additional exemptions from its November 27, 2024 deadline for compliance with certain product transaction requirements. The exemptions followed concerns from the stakeholders across the pharmaceutical supply chain about their ability to fully comply with the new requirements without significant impact to product distribution timelines.
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May 23, 2024 | 
independentnews.com | Mark Armstrong
Human history has allowed for the strong to kill the weak and unprotected. I am not condoning these civilian deaths. Nor the reasons of someone that could justify why these people’s lives were deemed a byproduct of war.
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Aug 6, 2023 | 
msn.com | Mark Armstrong
The ultimatum was presented by the West African bloc ECOWAS a week ago after the military toppled elected president Mohamed Bazoum. Failure to reinstate him opens up the possibility of using force. "We want diplomacy to work, and we want this message clearly transmitted to the leaders of the Junta in Niger that we are giving them every opportunity to reverse what they have done," explained Abdel-Fatau Musah, the bloc's Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security.
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Aug 6, 2023 | 
msn.com | Mark Armstrong
Two attacks with sea drones on Russian vessels have undoubtedly rattled Moscow. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova singled out the attack on the Russian tanker 'Sig' calling it a "barbaric action that has no remedy". “There can be no justification for such barbaric actions, they will not go unanswered and their authors and perpetrators will inevitably be punished,” she wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
euronews.com | Mark Armstrong
Thousands of Israeli protesters have ended their four-day march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in a mass mobilisation to oppose the government's justice system changes. Many are now camped in a park near the country's parliament. A final vote on the bill is due to take place on Monday. There have been months of protests in Israel over the reforms, which seek to limit the Supreme Court's powers.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
euronews.com | Mark Armstrong
By Mark Armstrong with AFP • Updated: 21/07/2023 - 09:27 The UK's ruling Conservative Party loses two out of three by-elections as support for the main opposition Labour Party soars ahead of the 2024 general election. Thursday was a bad day for the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak although not as bad as some people had predicted. Many thought his ruling Conservative Party would lose former PM Boris Johnson's old seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip on the outskirts of London.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
euronews.com | Mark Armstrong
By Mark Armstrong with AFP • Updated: 18/07/2023 - 14:19 A parliamentary committee has concluded that President Emmanuel Macron helped establish the cab-hailing firm Uber in France by way of a "privileged" relationship with the online platform. Macron was the Minister for the Economy in the government of President François Hollande at the time when Uber was attempting to gain access to France.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
msn.com | Mark Armstrong
More mercenaries from Russia's Wagner mercenary group are said to have rolled into Belarus as part of the deal that ended their mutiny. The state-controlled TV channel, Voen TV, showed footage of the Wagner fighters wearing black masks while training Belarusian soldiers. The video showed mercenaries instructing Belarusian soldiers how to shoot and provide medical assistance. The film has not been independently verified by journalists.
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
msn.com | Mark Armstrong
Despite the mutiny in Russia and the Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin saying he will move to Belarus, Lavrov claims the events "will not affect the relationship between Moscow and its African friends." "In addition to relations with this PMC (private military company, in reference to Wagner), the governments of CAR (Central African Republic) and Mali have official contacts with our leadership. At their request, several hundred soldiers are working in CAR as instructors.
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Jun 8, 2023 | 
msn.com | Mark Armstrong
The Argentine forward and World Cup winner, 35, has spent the last two seasons at Paris Saint-Germain where he played the club last Saturday, after moving from Barcelona in 2021, where he spent the majority of his career. However, although his form at PSG had improved recently, Messi had a sometimes difficult relationship with the club and its fans.
