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Malaysia shuts vaccination centre after 200 workers test Covid positive

Malaysia shuts vaccination centre after 200 workers test Covid positive

Reuters 2021-07-13 14:56:24

A Covid-19 vaccination centre in Malaysia was ordered to close for sanitisation on Tuesday after more than 200 volunteers and workers there tested positive over the weekend, the country's science mini...

China hotel collapse leaves eight dead

China hotel collapse leaves eight dead

Reuters 2021-07-13 14:10:17

Part of a hotel collapsed in the Chinese city of Suzhou killing eight people and rescue workers were searching on Tuesday for nine people missing in the ruins, state media reported. The collapse of p...

US puts new warning on J&J coronavirus vaccine

US puts new warning on J&J coronavirus vaccine

Reuters 2021-07-13 12:47:59

The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday added a warning to the fact sheet for Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine saying that data suggests there is an increased risk of a rare neurolo...

South Africa deploys army to quell violence linked to Zuma jailing

South Africa deploys army to quell violence linked to Zuma jailing

Reuters 2021-07-13 11:40:41

South Africa deployed soldiers on Monday to quell violence that erupted following the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma, after days of riots left at least six people dead. Police said disturbanc...

Plastic surgery on the rise in China despite dangers

Plastic surgery on the rise in China despite dangers

-- 2021-07-13 09:56:08

Like many of her peers, 23-year-old Ruxin scrolls her social media feed every day, but she is looking for something very specific - updates about cosmetic surgery. Ruxin is planning to have "doub...

Fire at coronavirus hospital in Iraq kills 44

Fire at coronavirus hospital in Iraq kills 44

-- 2021-07-13 08:51:39

At least 44 people were killed and over 67 injured in a fire likely caused by an oxygen tank explosion at a coronavirus hospital in Iraq's southern city of Nassiriya, health officials and police said...

Sydney braces for extended lockdown amid COVID-19 outbreak

Sydney braces for extended lockdown amid COVID-19 outbreak

Reuters 2021-07-12 17:59:17

Australia's largest city, Sydney, is bracing for a prolonged COVID-19 lockdown as officials warn new daily cases are likely to top 100 on Monday amid a fast-growing outbreak of the Delta virus variant...

Chinese producers to supply more than half a billion vaccines to COVAX

Chinese producers to supply more than half a billion vaccines to COVAX

REUTERS 2021-07-12 17:06:14

The GAVI alliance said on Monday it had signed two advance purchase agreements with Chinese drugmakers Sinopharm and Sinovac to provide up to 550 million COVID-19 vaccines to the COVAX programme. The...

Thailand to mix Sinovac, AstraZeneca jabs to increase protection

Thailand to mix Sinovac, AstraZeneca jabs to increase protection

Reuters 2021-07-12 15:31:20

Thailand said on Monday it will use AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine as a second dose for those who received Sinovac's shot as their first dose to increase protection against the disease. The plan, if...

Taiwan tech giants Foxconn, TSMC to buy 10m doses of Covid vaccine

Taiwan tech giants Foxconn, TSMC to buy 10m doses of Covid vaccine

-- 2021-07-12 14:05:13

Two of the world's biggest technology manufacturers are buying 10 million doses of a Covid vaccine for Taiwan. Taiwanese firms Foxconn, which makes devices for Apple, and chip giant TSMC brokered...

Cuba sees biggest protests in decades as pandemic adds to woes

Cuba sees biggest protests in decades as pandemic adds to woes

REUTERS 2021-07-12 13:05:23

Chanting "freedom" and calling for President Miguel Diaz-Canel to step down, thousands of Cubans joined street protests from Havana to Santiago on Sunday in the biggest anti-government demonstrations...

Haiti police arrest suspected mastermind in president's assassination

Haiti police arrest suspected mastermind in president's assassination

Reuters 2021-07-12 13:00:08

Haitian police said on Sunday they had arrested one of the suspected masterminds in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, a Haitian man whom authorities accused of hiring mercenaries to oust a...

11 killed in lightning strike while taking selfies in India

11 killed in lightning strike while taking selfies in India

-- 2021-07-12 10:59:48

Eleven people have died and many feared injured in a lightning strike in front of the 12th century Amer Palace near Jaipur city of India’s Rajasthan state. The incident took place when people w...

Sydney braces for extended lockdown amid worsening Covid-19 situation

Sydney braces for extended lockdown amid worsening Covid-19 situation

Reuters 2021-07-12 10:39:46

The prospect of an extended lockdown in Sydney loomed on Monday as Australian health officials reported yet another record daily rise in Covid-19 cases for the year, fuelled by the highly infectious D...

Unvaccinated Belgian woman contracted two COVID-19 variants simultaneously

Unvaccinated Belgian woman contracted two COVID-19 variants simultaneously

-- 2021-07-11 18:23:45

A 90-year-old Belgian woman who died from COVID-19 in March had contracted two variants of coronavirus at the same time, which is believed to be the first documented case of its kind, a scientific con...

Australia reports first 2021 COVID-19 death

Australia reports first 2021 COVID-19 death

REUTERS 2021-07-11 16:37:43

Australia reported its first coronavirus-related death of the year on Sunday and a 2021 record 77 new cases of the virus in the state of New South Wales, which is battling an outbreak of the highly...

Israel strikes Pfizer deal for new vaccine batch

Israel strikes Pfizer deal for new vaccine batch

AP 2021-07-11 16:30:15

Israel’s prime minister says the country has struck a deal with Pfizer to receive a fresh batch of coronavirus vaccines in August to help with its drive to vaccinate teenagers. Prime Minister N...

Former US President Jimmy Carter, wife Rosalynn celebrate 75 years of marriage

Former US President Jimmy Carter, wife Rosalynn celebrate 75 years of marriage

-- 2021-07-11 15:44:37

Former President Jimmy Carter on Saturday turned to his wife Rosalynn and thanked her for 75 years of marriage, telling her that she’s always been right for him, reports AP. “I want to ex...

India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh seeks to promote two-child policy

India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh seeks to promote two-child policy

-- 2021-07-11 11:39:29

India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, has proposed legislation that aims to discourage couples from having more than two children, becoming the second state ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

26 killed in clashes between police, Caracas gang in Venezuela

26 killed in clashes between police, Caracas gang in Venezuela

-- 2021-07-11 11:03:55

Clashes between police and a gang in northwestern Caracas this week have left at least 26 dead, including four officers, and 38 people injured, Venezuelan Interior Minister Carmen Melendez has said....

Ethiopia’s PM Abiy Ahmed wins election with huge majority

Ethiopia’s PM Abiy Ahmed wins election with huge majority

-- 2021-07-11 10:25:59

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has won the country's delayed elections with an overwhelming majority, the election board said on Saturday. The board said Mr Abiy's Prosperity Party won 410 o...

Death toll in Miami condo collapse reaches 86

Death toll in Miami condo collapse reaches 86

-- 2021-07-10 21:11:50

The number of people confirmed to have been killed in the collapse of a Miami-area condominium tower last month reached 86, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said on Saturday. No survivors...

Biden increases pressure on Putin to act on ransomware attacks

Biden increases pressure on Putin to act on ransomware attacks

-- 2021-07-10 17:58:03

US President Joe Biden increased pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to move against ransomware groups operating in Russia, warning the United States is prepared to respond if cyber...

Saudi Arabia to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha on July 20

Saudi Arabia to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha on July 20

-- 2021-07-10 17:20:56

Saudi Arabia will celebrate Eid-ul-Azha on July 20 as the crescent moon of the month of Zilhajj was not spotted in kingdom on Friday, according to an official. According to the Saudi Arabia official,...

Haiti seeks military assistance from UN, US for stabilisation

Haiti seeks military assistance from UN, US for stabilisation

-- 2021-07-10 17:10:07

Haiti has sought military assistance from the United Nations and the United States to protect its key infrastructure after the assassination of its President Jovenel Moise by suspected foreign mercena...

India's govt adviser says second-wave of Covid-19 not over yet

India's govt adviser says second-wave of Covid-19 not over yet

Reuters 2021-07-10 11:26:11

India's devastating second coronavirus wave, which has raged since March and killed thousands of people, is not over yet, a senior government official said on Friday, warning citizens to avoid crowdin...

We control over 85pc of Afghan territory, Taliban says

We control over 85pc of Afghan territory, Taliban says

-- 2021-07-09 18:27:38

A Taliban delegation in Moscow said on Friday that the group controlled over 85 per cent of territory in Afghanistan and reassured Russia it would not allow the country to be used as a platform to att...

Five years after South China Sea ruling, China's presence around Philippines growing

Five years after South China Sea ruling, China's presence around Philippines growing

Reuters 2021-07-09 12:24:51

Filipino fisherman Randy Megu has often braved the storms that spring up in the South China Sea, but these days he has a greater fear: seeing a Chinese maritime enforcement vessel on the horizon. Fiv...

Foreign hit squad assassinated Haiti's president, police say

Foreign hit squad assassinated Haiti's president, police say

-- 2021-07-09 12:07:17

A hit squad composed mostly of retired Colombian soldiers assassinated Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse earlier this week, police say. The group included 26 Colombians and two Americans of Ha...

Pfizer to seek US authorisation for Covid booster shot as Delta spreads

Pfizer to seek US authorisation for Covid booster shot as Delta spreads

Reuters 2021-07-09 11:37:30

Pfizer plans to ask US regulators to authorise a booster dose of its Covid-19 vaccine within the next month, the drugmaker's top scientist said on Thursday, based on evidence of greater risk of reinfe...