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Oman suspends entry for travellers from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan

Oman suspends entry for travellers from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan

-- 2021-04-21 21:29:58

Oman has decided to bar entry to arrivals from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan as part of the efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The travel suspension will come into effect on April 24, reports...

Queen Elizabeth marks 95th birthday, days after husband's funeral

Queen Elizabeth marks 95th birthday, days after husband's funeral

-- 2021-04-21 20:46:04

Britain's Queen Elizabeth, the world's oldest monarch, turns 95 on Wednesday, but there will be no public celebrations of an occasion that comes just days after she bade a sad farewell to her husband...

Sri Lanka reports six cases of blood clots among AstraZeneca vaccine recipients, three dead

Sri Lanka reports six cases of blood clots among AstraZeneca vaccine recipients, three dead

-- 2021-04-21 19:49:50

Sri Lanka has found six cases of blood clots among recipients of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, three of whom have died, Sri Lankan Health Minister Pavithra Waniarachchi told parliament on Wednesda...

India allows vaccine sales in open market from May 1

India allows vaccine sales in open market from May 1

-- 2021-04-21 18:22:45

India has allowed sales of COVID-19 vaccine doses in the open market from May 1 with an aim to bring everyone over the age of 18 can under vaccination programme and to encourage vaccine makers to boos...

Oxygen leak leaves 22 Covid-19 patients dead in India

Oxygen leak leaves 22 Covid-19 patients dead in India

BBC 2021-04-21 17:08:09

At least 22 Covid patients have died in a hospital in India after they lost oxygen supply due to a leak. The incident occurred on Wednesday while an oxygen tanker was refilling a storage tank at the...

Delhi running out of medical oxygen as India battles coronavirus ‘storm’

Delhi running out of medical oxygen as India battles coronavirus ‘storm’

-- 2021-04-21 12:55:46

Authorities said hospitals in the Indian capital of Delhi would start running out of medical oxygen by Wednesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country faced a coronavirus "storm" overwhelmi...

China, Myanmar among countries criticised for 'rising religious persecution'

China, Myanmar among countries criticised for 'rising religious persecution'

Reuters 2021-04-21 11:58:16

Violations of religious freedom are increasing and persecution takes place in more than 25 countries, with China and Myanmar among those that have the worst records, according to a report by a Vatican...

One killed, two wounded in shooting at NY grocery store

One killed, two wounded in shooting at NY grocery store

-- 2021-04-21 11:24:23

A suspect in a shooting at a suburban New York grocery store on Tuesday was arrested after remaining at large for hours, local police said. The shooting, leaving one dead and two others injured, oc...

Former US police officer Chauvin convicted of George Floyd murder

Former US police officer Chauvin convicted of George Floyd murder

Reuters 2021-04-21 09:54:19

Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was convicted on Tuesday of all three charges of murder and manslaughter in the deadly arrest of George Floyd, a milestone in the fraught racial history of t...

Modi urges state governments to use lockdown as last resort

Modi urges state governments to use lockdown as last resort

Reuters 2021-04-20 22:30:22

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged state governments on Tuesday to use lockdowns as the last resort to contain the spread of the second wave of COVID-19 infections, even as cases and deaths sur...

WHO delivers Covid warning as world hits weekly case records

WHO delivers Covid warning as world hits weekly case records

CNN 2021-04-20 20:04:24

Covid-19 infections have been rising at an alarming rate for eight consecutive weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, as the virus sweeps unabated through hotspots in several corners o...

Rahul Gandhi tests positive for coronavirus

Rahul Gandhi tests positive for coronavirus

-- 2021-04-20 17:42:17

India's Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday tested positive for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). He took to Twitter to announce that he has mild symptoms. "After experiencing mild sympto...

Chad President Idriss Deby dies on frontlines, army spokesman says

Chad President Idriss Deby dies on frontlines, army spokesman says

-- 2021-04-20 17:37:04

Chad's President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the frontline of a fight against northern rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday, the day after Deby was declared the winner of a pres...

China calls for fairer world order as rivalry with US deepens

China calls for fairer world order as rivalry with US deepens

-- 2021-04-20 17:31:52

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for a rejection of hegemonic power structures in global governance, amid growing tensions between Washington and Beijing over a widening range of issues...

EU sanctions against Myanmar military, companies expanded

EU sanctions against Myanmar military, companies expanded

AP 2021-04-20 16:40:13

The European Union expanded its sanctions against Myanmar’s military leaders and army-controlled companies ahead of a regional meeting to discuss the worsening crisis after army leaders deposed...

Chinese scholar blames BBC for ‘biased tone’ on Hong Kong issue

Chinese scholar blames BBC for ‘biased tone’ on Hong Kong issue

Global Times 2021-04-20 16:31:34

A Chinese scholar, Victor Gao, was recently invited to the BBC's Newsnight to debate Hong Kong’s politician Nathan Law after imprisonment of media tycoon Jimmy Lai and other opposition figures o...

India suffers record daily Covid deaths

India suffers record daily Covid deaths

Reuters 2021-04-20 16:04:11

India reported 1,761 deaths from Covid-19 overnight, its highest daily toll, with large parts of the country now under lockdown, as the country battles a second wave that has left people fighting for...

China's Xi calls for fairer world order amid deepening rivalry with US

China's Xi calls for fairer world order amid deepening rivalry with US

REUTERS 2021-04-20 15:20:27

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for a rejection of hegemonic power structures in global governance, amid growing tensions between Washington and Beijing over a widening range of issues...

ASEAN calls summit on Myanmar crisis

ASEAN calls summit on Myanmar crisis

REUTERS 2021-04-20 12:46:01

Southeast Asian countries will discuss the crisis in Myanmar at a summit in Jakarta on Saturday, the ASEAN bloc's secretariat said on Tuesday, after the European Union imposed its toughest sanctions y...

US will raise 'Do Not Travel' advisories to 80 per cent of world

US will raise 'Do Not Travel' advisories to 80 per cent of world

REUTERS 2021-04-20 11:33:35

The US State Department said on Monday it will boost its "Do Not Travel" guidance to about 80 per cent of countries worldwide, citing "unprecedented risk to travellers" from the Covid-19 pandemic. "T...

Former US Vice President Walter Mondale dies

Former US Vice President Walter Mondale dies

-- 2021-04-20 10:00:25

Former US Vice President Walter Mondale has died in Minneapolis on Monday aged 93, his family has announced. Mr Mondale was Jimmy Carter's running mate for his winning 1976 presidential bid and d...

India to vaccinate all adults over 18 as infection surges

India to vaccinate all adults over 18 as infection surges

-- 2021-04-20 09:43:00

India has widened its vaccination programme as infections surge and the capital goes into lockdown. All adults over the age of 18 will be offered a coronavirus jab starting from 1 May, the govern...

'I don't want that' - France struggles to pitch AstraZeneca vaccine

'I don't want that' - France struggles to pitch AstraZeneca vaccine

-- 2021-04-19 22:17:38

Tasked with persuading shoppers at an outdoor market to consider taking the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Paris city hall employee Leo Martin was finding it a tough sell. "Which vaccine is it?" one w...

Former Indian PM Manmohan Singh hospitalised after contracting coronavirus

Former Indian PM Manmohan Singh hospitalised after contracting coronavirus

-- 2021-04-19 20:23:36

Former prime minister of India Manmohan Singh has been hospitalised after contracting for COVID-19, according to reports in the Indian media. The veteran Congress leader underwent a COVID-19 test aft...

US warns of consequences if Navalny dies in prison

US warns of consequences if Navalny dies in prison

-- 2021-04-19 20:08:45

US President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the United States government has told Russia “there will be consequences” if Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny dies...

Japanese journalist picked up by Myanmar troops from his home in Yangon

Japanese journalist picked up by Myanmar troops from his home in Yangon

REUTERS 2021-04-19 19:41:37

Myanmar authorities detained a Japanese journalist in Yangon on Sunday evening, Japan's government said on Monday, adding that it was trying to seek his release. BBC Burmese quoted a witness as sayin...

Delhi locks down as Covid cases surge

Delhi locks down as Covid cases surge

REUTERS 2021-04-19 16:45:24

India's capital region of Delhi ordered a six-day lockdown on Monday as daily Covid-19 cases nationwide hit a new record and the health system crumbled under the weight of new infections. India's hos...

FedEx shooter legally bought guns used in shooting

FedEx shooter legally bought guns used in shooting

AP 2021-04-19 16:24:48

The former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis legally bought the two rifles used in the attack despite red flag laws designed to prevent such purchases, poli...

India accepts Serum Institute’s request for $400 million as grant

India accepts Serum Institute’s request for $400 million as grant

-- 2021-04-19 16:21:09

India is set to accept the Serum Institute of India's (SII) request for a grant of 30 billion rupees ($400 million) to boost its capacity to make the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, a government source...

Philippines lifts suspension on AstraZeneca vaccine for under 60s

Philippines lifts suspension on AstraZeneca vaccine for under 60s

Reuters 2021-04-19 16:15:41

The Philippines will resume administering AstraZeneca's (AZN.L) COVID-19 vaccine to people below 60 years of age, health officials said on Monday, ending a temporary suspension over reports of rare bl...