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Jordan bars media from publishing news on royal rift

Jordan bars media from publishing news on royal rift

-- 2021-04-06 17:32:06

Jordan banned all news outlets and social media users on Tuesday from publishing any content related to King Abdullah's half-brother Prince Hamza after the latter was accused of plotting to destabilis...

Gunmen help more than 1,800 inmates flee in attack on Nigerian prison

Gunmen help more than 1,800 inmates flee in attack on Nigerian prison

-- 2021-04-06 17:09:19

More than 1,800 prisoners are on the run in southeast Nigeria after escaping when heavily armed gunmen attacked their prison using explosives and rocket-propelled grenades, the authorities said on Tue...

Indian capital imposes night curfew until April 30

Indian capital imposes night curfew until April 30

-- 2021-04-06 16:10:59

The authorities of Indian capital have announced a night curfew across the city until April 30 in the wake of a relentless surge in Covid-19 cases. The "sudden increase in Covid-19 cases" and "high p...

British Airways CEO optimistic travel can resume on May 17

British Airways CEO optimistic travel can resume on May 17

-- 2021-04-06 15:40:31

The chief executive of British Airways said he is optimistic that international travel can resume from May 17 despite Britain warning on Monday that it was too soon to say whether holidays could resta...

Global Covid-19 death toll surpasses 3.0 million

Global Covid-19 death toll surpasses 3.0 million

REUTERS 2021-04-06 15:39:37

Coronavirus-related deaths worldwide crossed 3.0 million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, as the latest global resurgence of Covid-19 infections is challenging vaccination efforts across the...

Netanyahu to form next Israeli government

Netanyahu to form next Israeli government

Reuters 2021-04-06 15:30:11

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got a new lease on his political life on Tuesday, receiving a mandate from Israel’s president to form a new government after an inconclusive election. Israel&r...

Russian police step up security at Navalny prison ahead of protest

Russian police step up security at Navalny prison ahead of protest

-- 2021-04-06 14:59:23

Russian police stepped up security at the prison holding Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Tuesday as his supporters prepared to stage a protest outside the facility to demand that authorities give him...

Saudi Arabia to allow only ‘vaccinated or recovered’ pilgrims to Makkah

Saudi Arabia to allow only ‘vaccinated or recovered’ pilgrims to Makkah

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-04-06 14:44:09

Only pilgrims and worshippers who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 or have recovered from coronavirus will be allowed into the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Hajj and Um...

Indian states seek widening of vaccinations

Indian states seek widening of vaccinations

Reuters 2021-04-06 12:36:00

Many Indian state leaders have asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to open up vaccinations to most of the country’s hundreds of millions of adults, following a second surge in infections that has...

North Korea pulls out of Tokyo Olympics over Covid fears

North Korea pulls out of Tokyo Olympics over Covid fears

-- 2021-04-06 11:56:35

North Korea will not join the Tokyo Olympics this year due to coronavirus concerns, the country’s sports ministry said on Tuesday, dashing South Korean hopes the Games could be a catalyst to rev...

Over 1,800 break out of Nigerian prison

Over 1,800 break out of Nigerian prison

Reuters 2021-04-06 11:53:07

More than 1,800 inmates escaped from a Nigeria prison after an attack by gunmen carrying rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, explosives and rifles, according to a BBC report run by Reuters on Tue...

Russia's Putin signs law that could keep him in Kremlin until 2036

Russia's Putin signs law that could keep him in Kremlin until 2036

Reuters 2021-04-06 10:07:15

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that could keep him in office in the Kremlin until 2036, the government said on Monday. The legislation allows him to run for two more six-year terms...

US Supreme Court brings end to Trump Twitter battle

US Supreme Court brings end to Trump Twitter battle

Reuters 2021-04-06 09:59:36

The US Supreme Court on Monday brought an end to a legal fight over former President Donald Trump’s effort to block critics from following his now-frozen Twitter account, deciding the dispute wa...

US shuts once-secretive ‘Camp 7’ at Guantanamo Bay

US shuts once-secretive ‘Camp 7’ at Guantanamo Bay

-- 2021-04-05 19:30:59

The US military has shut down the once-secretive “Camp 7” at its notorious terror suspect detention facility Guantanamo Bay, moving some of its most high-profile prisoners to the main part...

Russia extends punitive Twitter slowdown until May 15

Russia extends punitive Twitter slowdown until May 15

-- 2021-04-05 18:32:56

Russia said on Monday it would extend a punitive slowdown of Twitter until May 15 though it acknowledged the US social media company had speeded up deletion of banned content. Moscow has traditionall...

Floods, landslides after tropical cyclone kill 76 in Indonesia, East Timor

Floods, landslides after tropical cyclone kill 76 in Indonesia, East Timor

-- 2021-04-05 16:45:18

Floods and landslides triggered by tropical cyclone Seroja in a cluster of islands in southeast Indonesia and East Timor have killed at least 76 people and displaced thousands, officials said on Monda...

Vietnam picks former state security official as new prime minister

Vietnam picks former state security official as new prime minister

-- 2021-04-05 16:36:18

Vietnam's National Assembly confirmed the nomination of Pham Minh Chinh, a career security official, as the Southeast Asian country's next prime minister at an official ceremony on Monday. Chinh, 62,...

Magnitude 5.8 quake strikes North Island, New Zealand

Magnitude 5.8 quake strikes North Island, New Zealand

Reuters 2021-04-05 15:29:19

An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck the eastern coast of North Island in New Zealand on Monday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 30 kms (18.6...

ASEAN leaders to meet over Myanmar

ASEAN leaders to meet over Myanmar

REUTERS 2021-04-05 15:12:44

Brunei, the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, on Monday threw its support behind a regional leaders' meeting to discuss developments in Myanmar and said it has ask...

Boris Johnson launches mass Covid-19 testing programme

Boris Johnson launches mass Covid-19 testing programme

-- 2021-04-05 13:33:26

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday everyone in England will be able to take a Covid-19 test twice a week in a new drive to track the pandemic as society reopens and the vaccine rollou...

Global coronavirus cases surge past 131 million

Global coronavirus cases surge past 131 million

-- 2021-04-05 11:40:51

The global Covid-19 cases surpassed 131 million on Monday despite the rapid vaccination campaign across the world, according to the data compiled by Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The JHU data shows...

India's daily virus cases cross 100,000 mark for first time

India's daily virus cases cross 100,000 mark for first time

Reuters 2021-04-05 10:45:52

India’s daily Covid-19 cases soared by 103,558 on Monday, the biggest such daily increase, data from the health ministry showed, taking the total to 12.59 million. The country added 478 new dea...

Young Pakistanis rush to purchase Russian vaccine

Young Pakistanis rush to purchase Russian vaccine

-- 2021-04-05 10:13:48

Thousands of Pakistanis rushed to get inoculated in the first round of commercial sales of COVID-19 vaccines that began over the weekend, with vaccination sites in the southern city of Karachi saying...

India imposes restrictions in and around Mumbai as Covid-19 cases surge

India imposes restrictions in and around Mumbai as Covid-19 cases surge

-- 2021-04-05 10:07:22

India’s richest state, Maharashtra, announced stringent COVID-19 restrictions from Monday, after a rapid rise in infections now accounting for more than half the country’s daily new cases....

Pope Francis slams weapons spending in time of pandemic

Pope Francis slams weapons spending in time of pandemic

-- 2021-04-05 09:57:13

Pope Francis urged countries in his Easter message on Sunday to quicken distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, particularly to the world’s poor, and called armed conflict and military spending durin...

12 dead, four missing after fishing boat sinks in eastern China

12 dead, four missing after fishing boat sinks in eastern China

-- 2021-04-04 20:44:40

A Chinese fishing boat capsized and sank early Sunday off the coast of the eastern Zhejiang province, killing at least 12 people and leaving four missing, according to state media reports. Four of th...

Pope describes military spending during pandemic as scandalous

Pope describes military spending during pandemic as scandalous

-- 2021-04-04 18:50:33

Pope Francis urged countries in his Easter message on Sunday to quicken distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, particularly to the world's poor, and called armed conflict and military spending during a pa...

22 Indian security members killed in Maoist attack

22 Indian security members killed in Maoist attack

-- 2021-04-04 16:14:57

At least 22 members of Indian security forces were killed in a central Indian state by Maoist fighters, one of the bloodiest attacks by the extreme left-wing insurgent groups this year, officials said...

US removes AstraZeneca from plant that scuppered Covid vaccine

US removes AstraZeneca from plant that scuppered Covid vaccine

REUTERS 2021-04-04 14:10:56

The United States has put Johnson and Johnson in charge of a plant that ruined 15 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine and has stopped British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc from using the facility, a sen...

Flash Floods, landslides kill 23 in Indonesia, East Timor

Flash Floods, landslides kill 23 in Indonesia, East Timor

-- 2021-04-04 14:02:04

Flash floods unleashed by torrential heavy rains early on Sunday killed 23 people on Indonesia’s island of Flores, injuring nine while five went missing, as the tiny neighbouring nation of East...