Al-anwar Newspaper English news in Australia

The coronavirus vaccine Australia has invested in has been dealt a major setback after researchers uncovered a suspected serious adverse reaction in a trial participant. The vaccine, being developed by pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, is being tested at dozens of sites around the world. The stage 3 trial – the final stage before safety and efficacy ...

Veganism has soared in popularity around the world, and data shows that Australia is at the forefront of the shift towards plant-based eating. Interest in veganism around the world has doubled over the past five years, and shows no signs of slowing down, according to research by culinary website Chef’s Pencil. Australia is the second-most popular nation in the world ...

Business conditions have gone backwards for the month of August as ongoing lockdowns in Victoria smother the prospect of Australia’s economic snapback. Latest figures from National Australia Bank’s monthly business survey shows conditions in August had slipped, reversing the gains experienced in the previous month. Business conditions fell six points to an index position of negative six, which has been ...

Melbourne tech industry luminaries, including venture capitalist Paul Bassat, are fearful the Victorian government’s harsh lockdown restrictions will have a severe and lasting impact on the state’s economy and damage its emerging startup sector. Mr Bassat, who is also an AFL Commission board director, said there was a “certain irony” to weekly team meetings at his Square Peg Ventures investment ...

US President Donald Trump says he is prepared to dip into his own fortune to fund his re-election campaign after reports emerged showing his team had blown the huge cash advantage it once held over Democratic rival Joe Biden. If Trump did substantially self-fund his campaign he would follow in the footsteps of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who spent ...

The PM will be praying for a Republican win in the US to back up his inaction on climate and the Paris Agreement. A year out from Barack Obama›s election in 2008, John Howard made a stunning admission that he thought Americans should be praying for a Republican victory. Ideologically this was unremarkable. But the fact Howard said so publicly ...

Interviewed by/ Sam Nan   The Iraqi media Announcer, Hadil Sabah, is one of the generation of media professionals who had been shown on the Iraqi screen and achieved a good presence from her beginnings in 2005 until her arrival to Sydney as a reporter for the Iraqi satellite channel. Hadil presented many successful programs on Iraqi TV and worked ...