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UNICEF urgently requires $164m for medical support across South Asia

UNICEF urgently requires $164m for medical support across South Asia

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-05-21 13:49:53

UNICEF urgently requires $164 million to procure oxygen and testing supplies, medical equipment, personal protective equipment and infection prevention and control material to help save lives amid a d...

Global coronavirus cases top 165 million

Global coronavirus cases top 165 million

-- 2021-05-21 10:46:48

Covid-19 continues its onslaught across the world, even with mass inoculations underway. The overall number of corona cases has now topped 165 million. The total cases and fatalities reached 165,253,...

Israel, Hamas agree to a ceasefire after 11 days of fighting

Israel, Hamas agree to a ceasefire after 11 days of fighting

REUTERS 2021-05-21 09:11:00

An Egyptian-mediated truce between Israel and Hamas began on Friday, but Hamas warned it still had its "hands on the trigger" and demanded Israel end the violence in Jerusalem and address the damages...

Renewed violence over Gaza despite ceasefire moves gaining speed

Renewed violence over Gaza despite ceasefire moves gaining speed

Reuters 2021-05-20 17:46:14

Diplomatic moves towards a ceasefire in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict gathered pace on Thursday after US President Joe Biden called for a de-escalation, but Israel kept up its bombardment of Gaza a...

Fears for shelters and supplies in Myanmar

Fears for shelters and supplies in Myanmar

Reuters 2021-05-20 13:03:46

People displaced by an upsurge of fighting in Myanmar's Chin State voiced concerns over shelter and supplies, as more flee the conflict between the army and insurgents opposed to the junta that seized...

Israel-Gaza crisis: Hamas official predicts ceasefire within days

Israel-Gaza crisis: Hamas official predicts ceasefire within days

-- 2021-05-20 12:23:36

A senior Hamas official has said that he expects Israel and Gaza militants to reach a ceasefire "within a day or two" as cross-border attacks continue. But Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on W...

Rescuers search for 49 missing as cyclone batters Indian coast

Rescuers search for 49 missing as cyclone batters Indian coast

Reuters 2021-05-20 11:29:53

Naval vessels and aircraft scoured the waters off India's west coast late on Wednesday after the most powerful cyclone in more than two decades battered the region, sinking an oilfield accommodation b...

Quarantine not mandatory in Kuwait for vaccinated travellers

Quarantine not mandatory in Kuwait for vaccinated travellers

-- 2021-05-19 20:56:34

Kuwait’s cabinet said on Tuesday that direct commercial flights for Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka are limited to departing flights only, while cargo flights will continue, unt...

52,000 Palestinians displaced by Israeli airstrikes, UN agency says

52,000 Palestinians displaced by Israeli airstrikes, UN agency says

-- 2021-05-19 19:22:44

More than 52,000 Palestinians have been displaced by Israeli airstrikes that have destroyed or badly damaged nearly 450 buildings in the Gaza Strip, the UN aid agency said on Tuesday. In a separate s...

India to begin clinical trials for Covid vaccine in children

India to begin clinical trials for Covid vaccine in children

-- 2021-05-19 16:45:00

Bharat Biotech is set to begin the phase II and III clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin in children in the age group of 2 to 18 years in the next 10-12 days, reports The Economics Times citin...

India sees 4,529 more Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours

India sees 4,529 more Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours

-- 2021-05-19 11:39:53

India's COVID-19 tally reached 25,496,330 on Wednesday, with 267,334 new cases registered in the past 24 hours, confirmed by the health ministry. The death toll rose to 283,248 with 4,529 more deaths...

Scores missing as cyclone hits Indian coast, killing at least 29

Scores missing as cyclone hits Indian coast, killing at least 29

REUTERS 2021-05-19 11:17:59

The Indian Navy mounted a massive air and sea rescue mission on Tuesday for 79 oil workers and crew whose barge sank in heavy seas following a powerful cyclone that tore up the west coast killing at l...

Taiwan to get another 400,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine

Taiwan to get another 400,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine

Reuters 2021-05-19 11:03:27

Taiwan will get 400,000 more AstraZeneca Covid-19 doses on Wednesday from the COVAX global sharing programme, the government said, as it faces a dwindling supply of shots during a spike in domestic in...

5.8 magnitude earthquake jolts Nepal, injures three

5.8 magnitude earthquake jolts Nepal, injures three

-- 2021-05-19 10:51:26

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 hit the Lamjung district in northern-central Nepal on Wednesday, leaving at least three people injured, a local official said. With the epicenter in Bhulbhule of...

How Myanmar army moved in on the telecoms sector to spy on citizens

How Myanmar army moved in on the telecoms sector to spy on citizens

REUTERS 2021-05-19 10:31:44

In the months before the Myanmar military’s Feb 1 coup, the country’s telecom and internet service providers were ordered to install intercept spyware that would allow the army to eavesdro...

No sign of ceasefire in Israel-Gaza conflict

No sign of ceasefire in Israel-Gaza conflict

Reuters 2021-05-19 09:59:54

Israel bombarded Gaza with air strikes and Palestinian militants kept up cross-border rocket fire, with no firm sign on Wednesday of any imminent ceasefire despite international calls to end more than...

Indian navy hunts for 80 missing at sea after devastating cyclone

Indian navy hunts for 80 missing at sea after devastating cyclone

Reuters 2021-05-18 19:08:28

The Indian Navy mounted a massive air and sea rescue mission on Tuesday for 81 missing oil workers and crew whose barge sank in heavy seas following a powerful cyclone that tore up the west coast of t...

Singapore approves Pfizer vaccine for use in 12-15 year olds

Singapore approves Pfizer vaccine for use in 12-15 year olds

REUTERS 2021-05-18 17:27:44

Singapore has authorised the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for those aged 12 to 15 years old in a bid to extend protection to more groups as the country tackles a recent increase of infe...

India unlikely to resume major exports of Covid vaccine until October

India unlikely to resume major exports of Covid vaccine until October

REUTERS 2021-05-18 14:37:48

India is unlikely to resume major exports of Covid-19 vaccines until at least October as it diverts shots for domestic use, three government sources said, a longer-than-expected delay set to worsen su...

Erdogan condemns Biden for approval of arms sales to Israel

Erdogan condemns Biden for approval of arms sales to Israel

-- 2021-05-18 11:53:24

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned his US counterpart Joe Biden for approval of arms sales to Israel. The US president was "writing history with bloody hands in this incident where...

Myanmar activists say over 800 killed by security forces since coup

Myanmar activists say over 800 killed by security forces since coup

Reuters 2021-05-18 11:42:03

More than 800 people have been killed by Myanmar's security forces since a wave of protests broke out across the country after the military seized power in a coup in February, an activist group said....

India's tally of virus cases surges past 25 million

India's tally of virus cases surges past 25 million

Reuters 2021-05-18 10:19:40

India's total coronavirus cases surged past the 25 million mark on Tuesday, boosted by 263,533 new infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths from Covid-19 rose by a record 4,329. India becomes...

Indian doctors, trained abroad, forced to stand by as Covid-19 sweeps nation

Indian doctors, trained abroad, forced to stand by as Covid-19 sweeps nation

Reuters 2021-05-18 09:59:21

Some 90,000 Indian doctors armed with medical degrees from Russia, China and Ukraine are urging the government to put them to work in the battle against Covid-19 instead of standing idly by, waiting f...

Israel-Gaza violence shows few signs of abating as global diplomacy ramps up

Israel-Gaza violence shows few signs of abating as global diplomacy ramps up

-- 2021-05-18 09:36:34

More than a week of fighting between Israel and Hamas showed few signs of abating on Tuesday despite intense US and global diplomacy to stop the region's fiercest hostilities in years. The Israeli mi...

Gujarat state braces for severe cyclone in over two decades

Gujarat state braces for severe cyclone in over two decades

Reuters 2021-05-17 18:45:02

Nearly 150,000 people were moved from their homes in the Indian state of Gujarat to safety on Monday and authorities closed ports and a main airport as the most intense cyclone in more than two decade...

China to ease birth policy but wary of social risks, sources say

China to ease birth policy but wary of social risks, sources say

REUTERS 2021-05-17 17:50:09

China will tread carefully in relaxing its birth policies for fear of harming social stability, even as the latest census highlights the urgency to address the country's declining birth trends and age...

India arrests seven for selling remdesivir smuggled from Bangladesh

India arrests seven for selling remdesivir smuggled from Bangladesh

-- 2021-05-17 17:29:20

Indian police have seized over 150 vials of Remdesivir drugs smuggled from Bangladesh and arrested seven people for their involvement in the smuggling of the drugs. The accused were identified as S V...

Israel kills Islamic Jihad commander, Palestinians renew rocket barrage

Israel kills Islamic Jihad commander, Palestinians renew rocket barrage

Reuters 2021-05-17 17:18:39

Israel killed a senior Palestinian militant commander in Gaza on Monday in air strikes which it said also targeted underground tunnels used by Hamas, and Islamist groups renewed rocket attacks on Isra...

KSA eases travel ban for vaccinated citizens

KSA eases travel ban for vaccinated citizens

AP 2021-05-17 16:58:39

Vaccinated Saudis will be allowed to leave the kingdom for the first time in more than a year on Monday as the country eases a ban on international travel aimed at containing the spread of the coronav...

India reports further decline in virus cases but expert says positive tests ominously high

India reports further decline in virus cases but expert says positive tests ominously high

-- 2021-05-17 13:42:18

India on Monday reported a further decline in new coronavirus cases though daily deaths remained above 4,000 and experts warned that the count was unreliable due to a lack of testing in rural areas, w...