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India struggles with Covid bed shortage

India struggles with Covid bed shortage

REUTERS 2021-04-19 15:40:48

India's daily Covid-19 cases jumped by a record 273,810 on Monday as the health system crumbled under the weight of patients, bringing total infections closer to that of the United States, the world's...

Long-awaited Australia-New Zealand travel bubble finally opens

Long-awaited Australia-New Zealand travel bubble finally opens

-- 2021-04-19 12:48:34

Tearful reunions filled Auckland airport on Monday as residents from Australia were able to travel freely to New Zealand for the first time in more than a year. The long-awaited Australia-New Zea...

Russia expels 20 Czech diplomats over explosion row

Russia expels 20 Czech diplomats over explosion row

-- 2021-04-19 12:00:02

Russia has announced that 20 diplomats from the Czech Republic will be expelled from the country. The Czech Republic expelled 18 Russian diplomats on Saturday. Czech local intelligence a...

Deadly clashes after Islamists take police hostage in Lahore

Deadly clashes after Islamists take police hostage in Lahore

-- 2021-04-18 21:33:12

Police in Pakistan said a hardline Islamist group had taken six security personnel hostage at its headquarters in Lahore on Sunday after a week of violent clashes following the arrest of the group's l...

Canada reports second case of blood clots after immunisation with AstraZeneca vaccine

Canada reports second case of blood clots after immunisation with AstraZeneca vaccine

-- 2021-04-18 20:54:06

Canada on Saturday reported a second case of rare blood clots with low platelets after immunisation with AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine in a week, while it said it still recommended the use of the sho...

Officials of Saudi Arabia, Iran hold direct talks in Iraq

Officials of Saudi Arabia, Iran hold direct talks in Iraq

-- 2021-04-18 18:15:58

Senior Saudi and Iranian officials held direct talks in a bid to repair relations between the two regional rivals, according to a report that quoted officials briefed on the discussions. The first ro...

Israel lifts public mask mandate, opens schools

Israel lifts public mask mandate, opens schools

AP 2021-04-18 17:29:03

Israel has lifted a public mask mandate and fully reopened its education system in the latest easing of coronavirus restrictions following its mass vaccination drive. All primary and secondary school...

China, US agree to boost climate commitments

China, US agree to boost climate commitments

Reuters 2021-04-18 17:24:40

China and the United States agree that stronger pledges to fight climate change should be introduced before a new round of international talks at the end of the year, the two countries said in a joint...

Iran has started enriching uranium to 60pc purity: IAEA

Iran has started enriching uranium to 60pc purity: IAEA

REUTERS 2021-04-18 15:21:12

Iran has started the process of enriching uranium to 60 per cent fissile purity at an above-ground nuclear plant at Natanz, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Saturday, confirming earlier statements by I...

India under siege from Covid-19

India under siege from Covid-19

REUTERS 2021-04-18 14:13:57

India reported a record daily increase of coronavirus infections over the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Sunday, exacerbating shortages of oxygen supplies and hospital beds in some of t...

Pfizer agreed to supply additional doses of Covid vaccines, Japanese minister says

Pfizer agreed to supply additional doses of Covid vaccines, Japanese minister says

-- 2021-04-18 12:14:36

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has agreed to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's request to supply additional doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, the vaccine minister of Japan said on Sunday. "They have ag...

US Sikh group demands probe of possible hate bias

US Sikh group demands probe of possible hate bias

-- 2021-04-18 12:07:31

Half of the eight workers shot to death at an Indianapolis FedEx facility by a former employee before he killed himself belonged to the Sikh religious community, leading an advocacy group to urge a pr...

Myanmar military leader to attend ASEAN summit in 1st foreign trip since coup

Myanmar military leader to attend ASEAN summit in 1st foreign trip since coup

-- 2021-04-18 11:36:06

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will attend an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Indonesia on April 24, Thailand said on Saturday, for his first known foreign trip since he...

Queen Elizabeth stands alone as her 'strength' Philip is laid to rest

Queen Elizabeth stands alone as her 'strength' Philip is laid to rest

-- 2021-04-17 22:10:55

Queen Elizabeth and her family paid their last respects to Prince Philip at a funeral on Saturday that celebrated his naval past, his international heritage and seven decades of service in which he he...

Prince Philip makes final journey followed by Charles, William and Harry

Prince Philip makes final journey followed by Charles, William and Harry

REUTERS 2021-04-17 20:35:48

Prince Philip began his final journey on Saturday, his coffin borne on a specially modified Land Rover hearse, followed on foot by a procession of senior royals including Prince Charles and Princes Wi...

Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny at growing risk of kidney failure

Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny at growing risk of kidney failure

-- 2021-04-17 19:16:57

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is at increasing risk of kidney failure and his vision is deteriorating after more than two weeks on hunger strike, a medical trade union with ties to the oppositi...

Modi appeals for low-key Hindu festival as virus infections surge

Modi appeals for low-key Hindu festival as virus infections surge

-- 2021-04-17 19:13:31

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday appealed to devotees to keep a key Hindu festival symbolic, amid worries about the spread of COVID-19 infections as the country reported more than 200,0...

Qatar hopeful to host COVID-free football World Cup next year

Qatar hopeful to host COVID-free football World Cup next year

-- 2021-04-17 17:33:17

Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani has said his country is ready to host the FIFA World Cup next year. The top diplomat of Qatar said the country has also started...

Myanmar junta chief to attend ASEAN summit on first foreign trip since coup

Myanmar junta chief to attend ASEAN summit on first foreign trip since coup

Reuters 2021-04-17 16:47:39

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will attend an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Indonesia on April 24, a Thai foreign ministry spokesman said on Saturday, for his first known forei...

China likely to approve BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine by July

China likely to approve BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine by July

-- 2021-04-17 16:46:53

China is planning to authorise the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Germany's BioNTech SE by July, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter, according to Reuters...

Russia to expel 10 US diplomats in retaliatory move

Russia to expel 10 US diplomats in retaliatory move

-- 2021-04-17 16:39:10

Russia will ask 10 US diplomats to leave the country in retaliation for Washington's expulsion of the same number of Russian diplomats over alleged malign activity, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lav...

US condemns sentencing Hong Kong pro-democracy activists

US condemns sentencing Hong Kong pro-democracy activists

-- 2021-04-17 16:17:31

The United States on Friday condemned the sentencing of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and other pro-democracy activists on what it called "politically motivated charges." "Beijing and Hong Kong au...

India reports daily increase of 234,692 COVID-19 infections

India reports daily increase of 234,692 COVID-19 infections

Reuters 2021-04-17 16:14:43

India reported a record daily increase of 234,692 COVID-19 infections over the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Saturday. It was the eighth record daily increase in the last nine days....

Covid-19 infections approaching highest rates ever: WHO

Covid-19 infections approaching highest rates ever: WHO

REUTERS 2021-04-17 11:17:14

Covid-19 infections are approaching their highest rates since the pandemic began just over a year ago, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday, reports UN News. “Arou...

Castro era in Cuba to end as Raul announces his retirement

Castro era in Cuba to end as Raul announces his retirement

Reuters 2021-04-17 11:13:36

Raul Castro confirmed he was handing over the leadership of the Cuban Communist Party to a younger generation at its congress that kicked off on Friday, ending six decades of rule by himself and older...

Putin to decide on counter sanctions against US

Putin to decide on counter sanctions against US

-- 2021-04-16 20:37:29

The Kremlin said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would decide what counter sanctions to impose on Washington, a day after US President Joe Biden hit Moscow with an array of punitive me...

Southeast Asian nations weigh aid mission to Myanmar

Southeast Asian nations weigh aid mission to Myanmar

-- 2021-04-16 19:33:06

Southeast Asian countries are considering a proposal to send a humanitarian aid mission to Myanmar as a potential first step in a long-term plan to broker a dialogue between the junta and its opponent...

India's COVID-19 patients turn to black market for drugs due to shortage

India's COVID-19 patients turn to black market for drugs due to shortage

BBC 2021-04-16 19:09:54

Akhilesh Mishra started getting a fever and a cough last Thursday but he initially thought it was just the flu. Akhilesh began to worry the next day, when his father Yogendra developed similar sympto...

‘South Asia fast becoming new global epicentre of Covid-19’

‘South Asia fast becoming new global epicentre of Covid-19’

UNB 2021-04-16 17:59:18

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said a humanitarian calamity is engulfing South Asia as Covid-19 skyrockets across several countries setting new records, wi...

Eight killed in mass shooting at FedEx warehouse in Indianapolis

Eight killed in mass shooting at FedEx warehouse in Indianapolis

-- 2021-04-16 15:30:12

At least eight people were killed in a shooting at a FedEx warehouse in Indianapolis late Thursday, and the gunman was believed to have taken his own life, reports  bdnews24.com citing The N...