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12 people, possibly foreigners, killed in attack on Mozambique gas hub town

12 people, possibly foreigners, killed in attack on Mozambique gas hub town

-- 2021-04-08 21:13:49

Twelve people, possibly foreigners, were found beheaded following an Islamic State-claimed attack on the northern Mozambique town of Palma, near natural gas projects worth $60 billion, a local police...

New Zealand suspends entry for travellers from India

New Zealand suspends entry for travellers from India

REUTERS 2021-04-08 17:33:41

New Zealand on Thursday temporarily suspended entry for all travellers from India, including its own citizens, for about two weeks following a high number of positive coronavirus cases arriving from t...

Rallies, religious gatherings aggravate India's worst coronavirus surge

Rallies, religious gatherings aggravate India's worst coronavirus surge

REUTERS 2021-04-08 17:02:12

India's COVID-19 cases have soared 13-fold in barely two months, a vicious second wave propelled by open disregard for safety protocols in much of the vast country. Election rallies led by Prime Mini...

Myanmar protesters fight troops with hunting rifles, firebombs as 11 more killed

Myanmar protesters fight troops with hunting rifles, firebombs as 11 more killed

-- 2021-04-08 16:10:42

Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar fought back with hunting rifles and firebombs against a crackdown by security forces in a town in the northwest but at least 11 of the protesters were killed, domest...

Bhutan vaccinates over 60pc people in record time

Bhutan vaccinates over 60pc people in record time

-- 2021-04-08 15:42:36

At a time when all the countries in the world are racing against time to give Covid-19 vaccine to most of their population, the little Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has created a record. The country may...

Italy, Britain suggest age limits for AstraZeneca vaccine

Italy, Britain suggest age limits for AstraZeneca vaccine

Reuters 2021-04-08 11:53:13

Italy recommended on Wednesday that AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 shot only be used on those over 60 and Britain that people under 30 should get an alternative, due to possible links between the vaccin...

Giorgio Armani could consider an Italian partner

Giorgio Armani could consider an Italian partner

-- 2021-04-08 11:30:25

Giorgio Armani may consider a joint venture with another Italian company, the founder of the Milanese fashion house told US magazine Vogue, opening the door for the first time to a potential business...

Sri Lankan beauty pageant crowned, de-crowned, crowned again

Sri Lankan beauty pageant crowned, de-crowned, crowned again

-- 2021-04-08 11:25:59

The Mrs Sri Lanka beauty pageant descended into chaos at the weekend when a former title holder declared that the winner was ineligible because she was divorced, and forcibly removed her crown. A vid...

US to restore more than $200m in aid to Palestinians

US to restore more than $200m in aid to Palestinians

-- 2021-04-08 10:57:39

The Biden administration plans to provide at least $235 million in US aid to the Palestinians, restarting funding for the United Nations agency supporting refugees and restoring other assistance cut o...

Trump adviser Giuliani asks judge to throw out $1.3b lawsuit over 'big lie' election claims

Trump adviser Giuliani asks judge to throw out $1.3b lawsuit over 'big lie' election claims

-- 2021-04-08 10:47:52

Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani asked a judge on Wednesday to throw out a voting machine company’s $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit relating to his false claims about th...

France to open Mitterrand's Rwanda archives to commemorate genocide

France to open Mitterrand's Rwanda archives to commemorate genocide

Reuters 2021-04-08 10:14:30

France will open the Rwanda archives of former French president Francois Mitterrand, as part of an effort to better understand the nation’s role in the African country during its 1990s genocide,...

Serum needs Rs 30b to scale up vaccine production

Serum needs Rs 30b to scale up vaccine production

-- 2021-04-07 20:39:13

Serum Institute of India (SII) needs around Rs 30 billion to scale up production from the current capacity of 60 to 65 million per month in three months. SII Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla c...

North Korea tells WHO it’s still coronavirus-free

North Korea tells WHO it’s still coronavirus-free

-- 2021-04-07 19:35:51

Isolated North Korea has continued to claim a perfect record in keeping out the coronavirus in its latest report to the World Health Organisation, reports AP. At the beginning of the pandemic more th...

Myanmar troops kill at least 13 anti-coup protesters on Wednesday

Myanmar troops kill at least 13 anti-coup protesters on Wednesday

-- 2021-04-07 19:18:58

Myanmar troops fired at anti-coup protesters on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding several, media said, as a series of small blasts hit the commercial capital Yangon and a Chinese-owne...

May shoot down Chinese drones in South China Sea, Taiwan says

May shoot down Chinese drones in South China Sea, Taiwan says

-- 2021-04-07 17:24:56

Taiwan has spotted Chinese drones circling the Taipei-controlled Pratas Islands in the South China Sea and may shoot them down if they stray too close, a government minister said on Wednesday, a move...

India sees 13-fold rise in Covid cases in over two months

India sees 13-fold rise in Covid cases in over two months

Reuters 2021-04-07 15:46:23

India’s second wave of coronavirus infections continued to swell as it reported a record 115,736 new cases on Wednesday, a 13-fold increase in just over two months and raising pressure on the go...

Indonesia landslides death toll rises to 119

Indonesia landslides death toll rises to 119

-- 2021-04-07 15:42:43

The death toll from mudslides in eastern Indonesia has risen to 119 with scores still missing, officials said Wednesday, as rain continued to pound the region and hamper the search, reports AP. The...

UK begins rollout of Moderna's Covid vaccine

UK begins rollout of Moderna's Covid vaccine

Reuters 2021-04-07 14:44:02

Britain begins rolling out Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday in Wales and expects to be using it in the rest of the United Kingdom in the coming days in a boost to the country’s heal...

Myanmar troops open fire on anti-coup protesters, killing five

Myanmar troops open fire on anti-coup protesters, killing five

-- 2021-04-07 14:26:15

Myanmar troops fired at anti-coup protesters on Wednesday, killing at least five people and wounding several, media said, as activists defied a bloody crackdown and internet blockade by the ruling jun...

Global coronavirus cases top 132 million

Global coronavirus cases top 132 million

-- 2021-04-07 13:53:49

The worst of the Covid-19 pandemic seems to be far from over. The overall number of global corona cases has now surged past 132 million, while the death toll is fast nearing 3 million. According to J...

California's Carlsbad Flower Fields welcome visitors

California's Carlsbad Flower Fields welcome visitors

-- 2021-04-07 11:45:33

People took pictures amid waist-high blossoms in every imaginable hue of orange, pink, yellow and purple at California’s famous Flower Fields in Carlsbad as it opened to the public. The attract...

Suez Canal may expand southern channel

Suez Canal may expand southern channel

Reuters 2021-04-07 11:42:07

The Suez Canal Authority is considering expanding the southern section of the waterway where the container ship Ever Given became stranded, its chairman said on Tuesday. It is also looking into procu...

Amazon's Bezos, Tesla's Musk top Forbes' record-setting billionaire list

Amazon's Bezos, Tesla's Musk top Forbes' record-setting billionaire list

-- 2021-04-07 11:17:40

Forbes’ annual world’s billionaires list includes a record-breaking 2,755 billionaires, with Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos topping it for the fourth consecutive year, the media company...

Dozens of dolphins wash up dead on beaches near Accra

Dozens of dolphins wash up dead on beaches near Accra

Reuters 2021-04-07 11:00:38

At least 80 dolphins and large numbers of fish have washed up dead on beaches near Ghana’s capital Accra since Friday, prompting investigations by the authorities. The cause of death was not ye...

World powers, Iran, US launch indirect talks to revive nuclear deal

World powers, Iran, US launch indirect talks to revive nuclear deal

-- 2021-04-07 10:25:43

Iran and world powers held what they described as “constructive” talks on Tuesday and agreed to form working groups to discuss the sanctions Washington might lift and the nuclear curbs Teh...

Iran cargo ship attacked in Red Sea

Iran cargo ship attacked in Red Sea

Reuters 2021-04-07 10:01:57

An Iranian cargo ship has come under attack in the Red Sea, Al Arabiya TV reported on Tuesday, quoting unnamed sources, and semi-official Iranian news agency Tasnim said the vessel was targeted by a l...

Death toll reaches 119 from floods landslides after cyclone in Indonesia

Death toll reaches 119 from floods landslides after cyclone in Indonesia

-- 2021-04-06 21:42:17

Rescuers searched for dozens missing in the remote islands of southeast Indonesia on Tuesday, as reinforcements arrived to help in the aftermath of a tropical cyclone that killed at least 119 people....

Threats, hate speech turn Rohingya activist's Malaysia home into a prison

Threats, hate speech turn Rohingya activist's Malaysia home into a prison

REUTERS 2021-04-06 20:40:51

Zafar Ahmad Abdul Ghani, a Rohingya Muslim refugee and activist who fled persecution and ethnic strife in Myanmar, has called Malaysia home for nearly three decades. Now, it’s more like a priso...

Truck landed on train track minute before deadly Taiwan crash

Truck landed on train track minute before deadly Taiwan crash

-- 2021-04-06 19:36:01

The truck which collided with a Taiwanese express train last week killing 50 people slid onto the tracks only around one minute before the accident happened, the government said on Tuesday, as it rele...

India’s ‘double mutant’ Covid-19 variant detected in US

India’s ‘double mutant’ Covid-19 variant detected in US

Hindustan Times 2021-04-06 18:41:31

The “double mutant” variant of the coronavirus behind the ongoing surge in Covid-19 cases in India has now been detected in the US. The first confirmed infection was reported on Monday. I...