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Global coronavirus cases top 160 million

Global coronavirus cases top 160 million

-- 2021-05-13 14:25:54

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to devastate countries across the world. In fact, the total caseload has now surpassed 160 million. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total Covid caselo...

Iran exceeds 2.7m cases of coronavirus

Iran exceeds 2.7m cases of coronavirus

-- 2021-05-13 14:17:23

Iran has reported 16,409 new COVID-19 cases, raising the country's total infections to 2,707,761. The pandemic has so far claimed 75,934 lives in Iran, up by 366 in the past 24 hours, the Iranian Min...

India registers 362,727 new coronavirus infections

India registers 362,727 new coronavirus infections

Reuters 2021-05-13 12:15:34

India had 362,727 new Covid-19 infections over the last 24 hours while deaths climbed by 4,120, taking the toll to 258,317, health ministry data showed. The South Asian nation's total caseload now st...

EU Commission urges limiting travel from India

EU Commission urges limiting travel from India

-- 2021-05-13 11:39:47

The European Union's executive has called on countries of the bloc to temporarily halt non-essential travel from India, to limit the spread of a Covid-19 variant. The European Commission on Wednesday...

Maldives president orders military to enforce Covid-19 measures

Maldives president orders military to enforce Covid-19 measures

-- 2021-05-13 11:09:51

Maldives President Ibrahim Solih has ordered the security forces to implement health and safety measures in order to curb the ongoing fourth wave of COVID-19 infections, local media reported on Thursd...

Australia secures 25m doses of Moderna vaccine as govt ramps up inoculation drive

Australia secures 25m doses of Moderna vaccine as govt ramps up inoculation drive

-- 2021-05-13 11:04:03

Australia has secured 25 million doses of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine as the government seeks to boost supplies to support its delayed vaccination drive. The government said 10 million doses of...

Hamas hits deep in Israel, which vows to keep pummelling Gaza

Hamas hits deep in Israel, which vows to keep pummelling Gaza

Reuters 2021-05-13 10:03:24

Hamas launched rockets at Tel Aviv and toward Jerusalem early on Thursday and Israel vowed to keep pummelling the Islamist faction in Gaza despite a prediction by US President Joe Biden that their fie...

'A hell out here': COVID-19 ravages rural India

'A hell out here': COVID-19 ravages rural India

REUTERS 2021-05-12 23:14:31

India's coronavirus death toll crossed 250,000 on Wednesday in the deadliest 24 hours since the pandemic began, as the disease rampaged through the countryside, leaving families to weep over the dead...

Iran’s former president Ahmadinejad to run in election again

Iran’s former president Ahmadinejad to run in election again

-- 2021-05-12 21:25:07

Iran’s hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday registered to run again in an election in June which is being seen as a test of the legitimacy of the country’s clerical r...

Israeli police injure seven worshippers in Al-Aqsa Mosque

Israeli police injure seven worshippers in Al-Aqsa Mosque

-- 2021-05-12 19:13:05

Violent confrontations renewed at dawn Wednesday in the Old City of Jerusalem, especially inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex, after Israeli police stormed its courtyards and fired rubber bullets and so...

Fears of Israel-Gaza war as violence escalates

Fears of Israel-Gaza war as violence escalates

BBC 2021-05-12 17:29:44

The deadly exchange of fire between Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli military has escalated significantly, with the UN fearing a "full-scale war". More than 1,000 rockets have...

Japan’s Covid-19 vaccine booking system crashes

Japan’s Covid-19 vaccine booking system crashes

Reuters 2021-05-12 15:27:41

Technical problems derailed Japan's coronavirus vaccination booking system on Wednesday, compounding frustration over the government's handling of new outbreaks of infections and an inoculation drive...

India’s daily Covid deaths hit record high

India’s daily Covid deaths hit record high

-- 2021-05-12 11:04:33

India on Wednesday posted a record rise in deaths from coronavirus (Covid-19) over the last 24 hours, pushing its total fatalities past the 250,000 mark. Deaths from COVID-19 swelled by 4,205, while...

Saudi Arabia to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr on Thursday

Saudi Arabia to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr on Thursday

-- 2021-05-12 10:44:16

Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated on Thursday in Saudi Arabia, as the Shawwal moon was not sighted in the country's skies today. Al Arabiya English reported the news citing the country’s moon-sigh...

35 killed in Gaza as violence escalates

35 killed in Gaza as violence escalates

Reuters 2021-05-12 09:36:16

Hostilities between Israel and Hamas escalated overnight, with 35 Palestinians killed in Gaza and five in Israel in the most intensive aerial exchanges for years. Israel carried out hundreds of air s...

One week quarantine mandatory for foreign citizens arriving in Saudi Arabia

One week quarantine mandatory for foreign citizens arriving in Saudi Arabia

-- 2021-05-11 20:41:21

Foreign citizens arriving in Saudi Arabia must quarantine for a week in government-approved accommodation starting May 20 to combat the spread of COVID-19, the Saudi civil aviation authority (GACA) sa...

US looking at joint production of J&J vaccine in India

US looking at joint production of J&J vaccine in India

-- 2021-05-11 20:14:29

The US is looking at the joint production of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine in India and ways to help Indian manufacturers, such as the Serum Institute of India (SII), ramp up production t...

How Malaysia seeking to recover billions of dollars missing from 1MDB

How Malaysia seeking to recover billions of dollars missing from 1MDB

-- 2021-05-11 20:01:29

Malaysia on Monday announced 22 civil suits against entities and people accused of being involved with the massive 1MDB corruption scandal, including units of global banks Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan....

No entry to Kuwait for travellers from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka

No entry to Kuwait for travellers from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka

Reuters 2021-05-11 19:59:38

Kuwait has suspended flights, and barred entry to travellers, from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka until further notice, state news agency KUNA said on Monday, to try to contain the spread o...

Myanmar marks 100 days of junta rule with protests

Myanmar marks 100 days of junta rule with protests

REUTERS 2021-05-11 19:37:00

Protesters rallied in towns and cities around Myanmar on Tuesday to denounce its military rulers, 100 days after the generals' overthrow of an elected government plunged the country into its biggest c...

Taiwan denounces China's 'shameless lies' about WHO access

Taiwan denounces China's 'shameless lies' about WHO access

HINDUSTAN TIMES 2021-05-11 19:36:02

Taiwan's foreign minister criticised what he called China's "shameless lies" on Tuesday in an escalating dispute about Beijing blocking the island from the World Health Organization (WHO), saying Chin...

Philippines detects first two cases of Indian variant

Philippines detects first two cases of Indian variant

-- 2021-05-11 19:30:31

The Philippines has detected its first two cases of a coronavirus variant first identified in India, its health ministry said on Tuesday, even as confirmed daily COVID-19 infections fell to a near eig...

China loses workers as its 1.4B people age

China loses workers as its 1.4B people age

-- 2021-05-11 16:51:51

The number of working-age people in China fell over the past decade as its ageing population barely grew, a census showed Tuesday, complicating Chinese leaders' efforts to create a more prosperous and...

Myanmar's Suu Kyi expected to appear in court soon

Myanmar's Suu Kyi expected to appear in court soon

Reuters 2021-05-11 13:20:49

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to attend her next court hearing in person, her chief lawyer said on Monday, after weeks of stalled virtual proceedings over charges her supporters s...

China's population growth slipped to lowest ever

China's population growth slipped to lowest ever

-- 2021-05-11 12:37:15

China's population growth in the decade to 2020 slumped to the least in official records dating back to the 1950s, fuelling pressure on Beijing to ramp up incentives to couples to have more children a...

Five Myanmar reporters, activists arrested in Thailand

Five Myanmar reporters, activists arrested in Thailand

-- 2021-05-11 11:57:08

Three reporters and two activists from Myanmar have been arrested in Thailand for illegal entry and face possible deportation, the reporters' news organisation and local police said on Tuesday. Broad...

Indian doctors warn against cow dung as Covid-19 cure

Indian doctors warn against cow dung as Covid-19 cure

-- 2021-05-11 11:45:04

Doctors in India are warning against the practice of using cow dung in the belief it will ward off coronavirus (Covid-19), saying there is no scientific evidence for its effectiveness and that it risk...

Israeli strikes in Gaza run into second day

Israeli strikes in Gaza run into second day

-- 2021-05-11 11:37:15

Palestinians fired uninterrupted barrages of rockets into Israel, as its military pounded Gaza with air strikes through the early hours of Tuesday, in a dramatic escalation of clashes in Jerusalem. E...

WHO says Indian coronavirus variant a global concern

WHO says Indian coronavirus variant a global concern

Reuters 2021-05-11 10:21:38

The World Health Organziation said on Monday that the coronavirus variant first identified in India last year was being classified as a variant of global concern, with some preliminary studies showing...

Mamata inducts 43 ministers into her cabinet

Mamata inducts 43 ministers into her cabinet

-- 2021-05-10 20:37:18

Indian state of West Bengal's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday inducted as many as 43 Ministers into her Cabinet, including 18 new faces. The Ministers, including nine junior ministers, were...