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A year on, markets buzzing in Chinese city where coronavirus cases popped up

A year on, markets buzzing in Chinese city where coronavirus cases popped up

-- 2020-12-08 19:44:46

Hundreds of shoppers pack a wet market on a December weekday morning in the Chinese city of Wuhan, jostling to buy fresh vegetables and live fish, frogs and turtles, reports Reuters. Almost a year si...

New Zealand mosque shooter visited India before attack: Report

New Zealand mosque shooter visited India before attack: Report

-- 2020-12-08 19:39:43

Brenton Tarrant, the Australian-born attacker who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch in 2019, travelled extensively around the world, including India where he spent nearly thr...

Four lions at Spanish zoo test positive for COVID-19

Four lions at Spanish zoo test positive for COVID-19

Reuters 2020-12-08 18:28:21

Four lions at Barcelona Zoo have tested positive for COVID-19, veterinary authorities said on Tuesday, in only the second known case in which large felines have contracted coronavirus. Three female...

China, Nepal announce new height of Mount Everest as 8848.86 metres

China, Nepal announce new height of Mount Everest as 8848.86 metres

-- 2020-12-08 17:15:40

China and Nepal jointly announced the new height of Mount Everest, known as Mount Qomolangma in China, as 8848.86 metres on Tuesday, ending years of debate over the three-metre difference that the two...

Biden selects retired general Lloyd Austin for defence secretary position   

Biden selects retired general Lloyd Austin for defence secretary position  

-- 2020-12-08 17:00:39

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen retired General Lloyd Austin, who oversaw US forces in the Middle East under President Barack Obama, to be his defence secretary, two people familiar with the...

Kuwait emir reappoints Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid as PM

Kuwait emir reappoints Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid as PM

-- 2020-12-08 16:42:41

Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah reappointed Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah as prime minister on Tuesday following parliamentary polls in the Gulf Arab state, which faces its worst econom...

800-page report reveals how New Zealand mosque shooter eluded detection

800-page report reveals how New Zealand mosque shooter eluded detection

AP 2020-12-08 15:36:49

A comprehensive report into the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in which 51 Muslim worshippers were slaughtered sheds new light on how the gunman was able to elude detection by authorities as he pl...

India reports lowest daily coronavirus cases in five months

India reports lowest daily coronavirus cases in five months

Reuters 2020-12-08 15:08:31

India reported 26,567 new coronavirus infections, data from the health ministry showed on Tuesday, the lowest daily increase since July 10, according to a Reuters tally. Daily cases have been falling...

90-year-old British grandma first in world to get Pfizer vaccine

90-year-old British grandma first in world to get Pfizer vaccine

REUTERS 2020-12-08 14:16:19

Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother, on Tuesday became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine shot outside of a trial as Britain began vaccinating its population....

Britain begins rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine

Britain begins rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine

Reuters 2020-12-08 12:49:40

Britain will start rolling out the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Tuesday, the first Western country to start vaccinating its general population in what was hailed as a decisive...

Japan targets boosting birth rate by funding AI matchmaking

Japan targets boosting birth rate by funding AI matchmaking

-- 2020-12-08 12:28:58

Japan plans to boost its tumbling birth rate by funding artificial intelligence matchmaking schemes to help residents find love. From next year it will subsidise local governments already running or...

US imposes sanctions on 14 Chinese officials

US imposes sanctions on 14 Chinese officials

-- 2020-12-07 23:22:06

The United States on Monday imposed financial sanctions and a travel ban on 14 Chinese officials over their alleged role in Beijing’s disqualification last month of elected opposition legislator...

China’s FM hopes US policy on China can return to objectivity

China’s FM hopes US policy on China can return to objectivity

-- 2020-12-07 19:17:18

China’s State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday he hoped and believed that US policy on China could eventually “return to objectivity and rationality”. China&rs...

India arrests 10 men under new anti-conversion law

India arrests 10 men under new anti-conversion law

-- 2020-12-07 18:25:45

Police in northern India have arrested 10 men for allegedly compelling women to change their religion after getting married, using a new anti-conversion law popularly called the "Love Jihad" law, offi...

Prince William, Kate begin UK tour to thank workers for coronavirus efforts   

Prince William, Kate begin UK tour to thank workers for coronavirus efforts  

-- 2020-12-07 17:46:03

William, Queen Elizabeth's grandson and second-in-line to the throne, and Kate are travelling 1,250 miles across England, Scotland and Wales on board the Royal Train as part of their three-day trip....

Biden picks Becerra as health secretary

Biden picks Becerra as health secretary

Reuters 2020-12-07 17:22:57

President-elect Joe Biden will nominate California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for secretary of health and human services as soon as Monday, a source familiar with the decision said, as he builds...

European powers rebuke Iran over announcement of uranium enrichment

European powers rebuke Iran over announcement of uranium enrichment

REUTERS 2020-12-07 15:46:29

France, Britain and Germany said on Monday they were “deeply concerned” by an Iranian announcement that it intended to install additional advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges and a parli...

India's indigenous tribes find remedies for coronavirus in forests

India's indigenous tribes find remedies for coronavirus in forests

Reuters   2020-12-07 15:46:14

A few weeks ago, Mukteshwar Kalo, a member of the Kondh tribe in eastern India, suddenly came down with a fever, cough and aches. Nearly anywhere else, these symptoms would be enough to raise fears o...

India reports nearly 33,000 new Covid-19 cases

India reports nearly 33,000 new Covid-19 cases

Reuters 2020-12-07 15:31:47

India reported 32,981 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, data from the federal health ministry showed on Monday. Cumulative cases now total 9.68 million, the second-highest tally in the worl...

Report says UK's Johnson ready to walk away from Brexit talks

Report says UK's Johnson ready to walk away from Brexit talks

Reuters 2020-12-07 14:38:20

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is ready to pull out of Brexit talks unless the European Union agrees to budge on its demands, The Sun newspaper reported on Monday. “Today he will tell the...

One dead, 227 hospitalised in India’s Andhra Pradesh due to mysterious illness

One dead, 227 hospitalised in India’s Andhra Pradesh due to mysterious illness

-- 2020-12-07 13:49:04

At least one person has died and 227 have been hospitalised by an unidentified illness in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The patients had a wide range of symptoms from nausea to fits and f...

Global Covid-19 cases cross 67 million mark

Global Covid-19 cases cross 67 million mark

-- 2020-12-07 12:12:02

The number of global coronavirus (Covid-19) cases has crossed 67 million, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU). According to the data compiled by JHU, the total caseload globally reached 67,00...

US preparing to slap new sanctions on Chinese officials

US preparing to slap new sanctions on Chinese officials

-- 2020-12-07 11:28:31

The United States is preparing to impose sanctions on at least a dozen Chinese officials over their alleged role in Beijing’s disqualification of elected opposition legislators in Hong Kong, acc...

India's Serum seeks emergency use approval for AstraZeneca's Covishield

India's Serum seeks emergency use approval for AstraZeneca's Covishield

Reuters 2020-12-07 09:44:35

Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine producer by volume, has sought emergency use authorisation in the country for AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine on Sunday, according to several...

First female Afghan general dies

First female Afghan general dies

BBC 2020-12-06 18:52:12

Suhaila Siddiq, Afghanistan's only female lieutenant general and one of a small number of women to hold a ministerial post in the country, died in hospital on Friday at the age of 72. She had Alzheime...

Pakistan man throws his five children in a canal due to poverty

Pakistan man throws his five children in a canal due to poverty

Hindustan Times 2020-12-06 18:31:14

A father facing acute financial problems threw his five children into the Jamber canal in Pattoki on Sunday, causing the death of two children while the other three went missing. Citing rescue source...

Queen Elizabeth may go public after having COVID vaccine

Queen Elizabeth may go public after having COVID vaccine

-- 2020-12-06 17:01:04

Britain's Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip may "let it be known" once they have received a vaccine against COVID-19, The Times newspaper reported, citing unnamed royal aides. The 94-year...

Dozens quarantined after coronavirus found in frozen food in China

Dozens quarantined after coronavirus found in frozen food in China

Xinhua 2020-12-06 16:58:26

A total of 43 people were placed under quarantine after a frozen-food sample in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province tested positive for novel coronavirus, local authorities said Saturday. Authori...

California COVID-19 surge prompts new lockdowns

California COVID-19 surge prompts new lockdowns

Reuters 2020-12-06 16:45:38

Designed to kick in when intensive care units in any of five regions have little remaining capacity, the order affecting Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley will close bars, hair salons and...

Venezuela votes in parliamentary election boycotted by opposition

Venezuela votes in parliamentary election boycotted by opposition

REUTERS 2020-12-06 16:25:49

Venezuelans on Sunday choose a new congress in an election that the opposition is boycotting and most Western nations call a fraud by President Nicolas Maduro to retake the last state institution not...