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Global Covid cases cross 181 million

Global Covid cases cross 181 million

-- 2021-06-29 12:52:38

The global Covid-19 caseload surged past 181 million Tuesday even with mass inoculations underway. The total caseload and fatalities stand at 181,388,210 and 3,928,804, respectively, as of Tuesday mo...

Hong Kong bans all incoming flights from UK to curb Covid spread

Hong Kong bans all incoming flights from UK to curb Covid spread

-- 2021-06-29 11:54:36

Hong Kong is to ban all flights from the UK to curb the spread of the Delta variant of Covid. The UK is to be classified as an "extremely high-risk" country, the highest rating Hong Kong has for...

US troops come under rocket fire in Syria

US troops come under rocket fire in Syria

-- 2021-06-29 09:35:59

US troops came under rocket fire in Syria on Monday, but escaped injury, in apparent retaliation for weekend US airstrikes against Iran-aligned militia in Syria and Iraq. A US military spokesman said...

UN peacekeeping missions globally prepare for possible shutdown

UN peacekeeping missions globally prepare for possible shutdown

-- 2021-06-29 08:34:20

United Nations peacekeeping missions globally are preparing for a possible shutdown on Thursday if the 193-member UN General Assembly is unable to agree on a new $6 billion budget for the year to June...

India announces to provide free visas to 500,000 tourists

India announces to provide free visas to 500,000 tourists

-- 2021-06-28 22:10:33

India will provide free visas to 500,000 tourists as part of the country’s measures to revive the tourism sector battered by the Covid-19 pandemic. India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sithar...

North Koreans worried about Kim Jong’s apparent weight loss, state media says

North Koreans worried about Kim Jong’s apparent weight loss, state media says

Reuters 2021-06-28 09:53:34

Everyone in North Korea is heartbroken over leader Kim Jong Un's apparent weight loss, said an unidentified resident of Pyongyang quoted on the country's tightly controlled state media, after watching...

Twin blasts rock Indian Air Force base in first-ever drone attack

Twin blasts rock Indian Air Force base in first-ever drone attack

-- 2021-06-27 19:56:37

In a first-ever drone attack on a military facility in India, two back-to-back blasts rocked a high-security Air Force station in the central government-controlled territory of Jammu and Kashmir early...

Iran warns it will not negotiate nuclear deal forever

Iran warns it will not negotiate nuclear deal forever

REUTERS 2021-06-27 13:50:46

Iran said on Saturday it believes a reinstatement of its 2015 nuclear deal with major world powers is possible but warned that Tehran “will not negotiate forever”. "Out of a steadfast com...

India's daily COVID-19 infections rise by 50,040

India's daily COVID-19 infections rise by 50,040

-- 2021-06-27 12:53:25

India's daily COVID-19 infections rose by 50,040 on Sunday, official data showed, as concerns grew about the detection of the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus in some states. The CO...

Two blasts rock Indian Air Force station in Jammu

Two blasts rock Indian Air Force station in Jammu

-- 2021-06-27 11:44:14

Two back-to-back blasts rocked a high-security Indian Air Force station in the central government-controlled territory of Jammu and Kashmir early on Sunday morning. Fortunately, no casualties were re...

India's digital database for farmers raises concerns about privacy, exclusion

India's digital database for farmers raises concerns about privacy, exclusion

Thomson Reuters Foundation 2021-06-26 15:05:36

A plan by India to build digital databases of farmers to boost their incomes has raised concerns about privacy and the exclusion of poor farmers and those without land titles. Tech firm Microsoft wil...

Myanmar forces seize arms cache

Myanmar forces seize arms cache

REUTERS 2021-06-26 13:41:18

Myanmar security forces seized a large cache of weapons on a truck bound for Mandalay this week, after arresting insurgents following a firefight in the second-biggest city, state media reported on Fr...

Myanmar forces seize huge cache of illegal arms  

Myanmar forces seize huge cache of illegal arms  

-- 2021-06-26 12:07:41

Myanmar security forces seized a large cache of weapons on a truck bound for Mandalay this week, after arresting insurgents following a firefight in the second-biggest city, state media has reported....

India's Maharashtra shuts malls, cinemas as new variant spreads

India's Maharashtra shuts malls, cinemas as new variant spreads

Reuters 2021-06-26 10:42:15

India's richest state on Friday ordered malls and cinema halls to close as it scrambles to control a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus that has scuppered plans to ease lockdown measures....

93pc organisations in Saudi Arabia faced a cyberattack last year

93pc organisations in Saudi Arabia faced a cyberattack last year

-- 2021-06-25 19:38:55

Nearly 93 per cent organisations, of 252 surveyed in a study, in Saudi Arabia experienced a cyberattack last year, according to a report. VMware, an American cloud computing technology company, relea...

Israel requires masks indoors again as Delta variant drives up cases

Israel requires masks indoors again as Delta variant drives up cases

REUTERS 2021-06-25 19:28:42

Israel told its citizens on Friday they must again wear masks indoors, 10 days after being allowed to ditch them, amid a sustained surge in coronavirus infections attributed to the highly contagious D...

Fire at martial arts centre in China kills 18, mostly children

Fire at martial arts centre in China kills 18, mostly children

Reuters 2021-06-25 12:37:59

A fire tore through a martial arts training centre in China on Friday killing 18 people, with one state media outlet saying most of the victims were children who were staying there. The blaze broke o...

Oman introduces long-term residence visas for foreign investors

Oman introduces long-term residence visas for foreign investors

REUTERS 2021-06-24 20:06:35

Oman will start granting long-term residence visas to foreign investors, state media said on Wednesday, as the debt-burdened Gulf state pursues wide-ranging reforms to fix its shaky finances. The mov...

Bhutan ready to mix COVID-19 doses to deal with vaccine shortages

Bhutan ready to mix COVID-19 doses to deal with vaccine shortages

-- 2021-06-24 17:30:32

Bhutan's Prime Minister on Thursday said he "has no problem" in mixing-and-matching COVID-19 vaccine doses to immunise a population of about 700,000 people in the tiny Himalayan nation. Bhutan, nestl...

Russia assures Myanmar junta leader of strengthening military ties

Russia assures Myanmar junta leader of strengthening military ties

-- 2021-06-23 19:31:54

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told Myanmar's junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing that Moscow is committed to strengthening military ties with it, Russia's RIA news agency reported. R...

Japanese couples must choose same surname

Japanese couples must choose same surname

REUTERS 2021-06-23 16:19:39

Japan's top court on Wednesday threw out a challenge by three couples who wanted to keep their own surnames after marriage, ruling those laws stipulating Japanese couples must choose one family name w...

Seven injured in blast in Pakistan's Lahore

Seven injured in blast in Pakistan's Lahore

-- 2021-06-23 14:10:02

At least seven people were injured when a blast went off inside a residential area in Lahore, the capital city of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province Wednesday, local media reported. The nature of the...

US blocks 36 Iran-affiliated websites

US blocks 36 Iran-affiliated websites

Reuters 2021-06-23 14:04:24

The US Justice Department said on Tuesday it seized 36 Iranian-linked websites, many of them associated with either disinformation activities or violent organisations, taking them offline for violatin...

New restrictions as Australia’s Sydney fights ‘dangerous’ Covid outbreak

New restrictions as Australia’s Sydney fights ‘dangerous’ Covid outbreak

-- 2021-06-23 13:28:46

Sweeping new restrictions will be imposed across Sydney as Australia's largest city grapples with a fast-growing Covid outbreak. Authorities reported 16 new infections on Wednesday, which brings...

India's COVID tally crosses 30 million

India's COVID tally crosses 30 million

-- 2021-06-23 12:41:34

India's COVID-19 tally surpassed 30 million-mark and the death toll crossed 390,000 on Wednesday, said the federal health ministry. While the tally rose to 30,028,709, the aggregate death toll reache...

Global coronavirus cases top 179 million

Global coronavirus cases top 179 million

-- 2021-06-23 11:49:20

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to devastate countries across the world. The total caseload has now surged past 179 million. In fact, the global case count and fatalities stand at 179,095,448 and 3,8...

India says 'Delta plus' variant a new concern

India says 'Delta plus' variant a new concern

Reuters 2021-06-23 09:14:30

India on Tuesday declared a new coronavirus variant to be of concern, and said nearly two dozen cases had been detected in three states. The variant, identified locally as "Delta plus", was found in...

Palestinians, settlers clash in tense Jerusalem neighborhood

Palestinians, settlers clash in tense Jerusalem neighborhood

AP 2021-06-22 21:56:44

Palestinians and Jewish settlers hurled stones, chairs and fireworks at each other overnight in a tense Jerusalem neighborhood where settler groups are trying to evict several Palestinian families, of...

Philippines' Duterte threatens to jail people refusing COVID-19 vaccine

Philippines' Duterte threatens to jail people refusing COVID-19 vaccine

REUTERS 2021-06-22 20:41:58

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to jail people who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Philippines battles one of Asia's worst outbreaks, with over 1.3 million case...

Myanmar security forces clash with a newly-formed militia group

Myanmar security forces clash with a newly-formed militia group

REUTERS 2021-06-22 17:35:50

Myanmar security forces backed by armoured vehicles clashed on Tuesday with a newly formed militia group in the second-biggest city of Mandalay resulting in at least two casualties, according to membe...