Hudson’s first coronavirus vaccinations performed at Palisades Medical Center: ‘Everybody’s looking forward to the end’
Updated Dec 18, 2020;
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Stephanie Alvarez’s mother had one request after learning her daughter would be receiving a COVID-19 vaccination Friday: take a picture so she can print and save it.
The registered nurse at North Bergen’s Palisades Medical Center was among the first to get the shot within Hudson County as the hospital administered the Pfizer vaccine Friday, just nine months after first bearing witness to the devastation of the virus.
Alvarez teared up as she said she wished she could give her past self a reassuring pat on the back, promising this day would come.
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The US House foreign affairs committee criticised Turkey’s government on Wednesday, singling out six of Ankara s policies that “undermine the Nato alliance .
Departing Democratic committee chairman Eliot Engel and the leading Republican on the committee, Michael McCaul, expressed “grave concern” over relations with Turkey.
“While we continue to see real value in a strong US-Turkey relationship, its destabilising actions need to be more strongly addressed, they said in a joint statement. And the United States must work with its European and Nato allies and partners to continue to use all of the tools at their disposal to demand that Turkey reverse course.
Will US and EU sanctions make Erdogan toe the line or make him more defiant?
Sun Online Desk
15th December, 2020 05:50:09
The past week must have been one of the worst for Turkey s arrogant President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as both the US and the EU, showing their frustration with his numerous unsavoury actions, decided to impose sanctions on Turkey.
This week the US Congress is expected to approve sanctions against Turkey for the purchase from Russia of the S-400 system worth USD 2.5 billion and this time President Donald Trump is not expected to oppose the sanctions, as he has been doing since 2017, when the Countering America s Adversaries Through Sanctions (Caatsa) act was passed, with an overwhelming majority in both houses of the Congress.
The US imposed sanctions on Turkey’s defense industry over the purchase of Russian S-400 missiles, a move that’s set to put more strain on a key NATO ally’s military but spares its economy from any punitive action. The sanctions effectively cut off Turkey’s top defense procurement agency from US financial institutions, military hardware and technology. Although the Turkish defense industry as a whole wasn’t targeted, Monday’s punitive action could endanger Turkey’s military clout in its region, after it has built up its army as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for more than half a century.
U.S. Sanctions Turkey’s Arms Industry, Spares Banks, Economy
Bloomberg 12/15/2020 Nick Wadhams, Selcan Hacaoglu and Firat Kozok
(Bloomberg) The U.S. imposed sanctions on Turkey’s defense industry over the purchase of Russian S-400 missiles, a move that’s set to put more strain on a key NATO ally’s military but spares its economy from any punitive action.
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The sanctions effectively cut off Turkey’s top defense procurement agency from U.S. financial institutions, military hardware and technology. Although the Turkish defense industry as a whole wasn’t targeted, Monday’s punitive action could endanger Turkey’s military clout in its region, after it has built up its army as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for more than half a century.