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How the world welcomes 2022

How the world welcomes 2022

-- 2022-01-01 13:10:21

The New Year has been welcomed across the world in style despite the omicron variant of Covid-19 muting celebrations. A reveller looks at fireworks explode over the UAP Old Mutual Tower during the...

12 dead in stampede at India shrine

12 dead in stampede at India shrine

-- 2022-01-01 12:21:04

Twelve pilgrims have died and at least 14 others injured in a stampede at Jammu and Kashmir's Mata Vaishno Devi shrine on Saturday, bdnews24.com reports citing the Indian media. The incident happened...

Judges need 'rigorous' training on stock-trading rules, says US Chief Justice

Judges need 'rigorous' training on stock-trading rules, says US Chief Justice

-- 2022-01-01 10:19:21

US federal judges need "more rigorous" ethics training to ensure they are not hearing disputes in which they have a financial interest, US Chief Justice John Roberts said in a year-end report publishe...

Sydney kicks off the New Year party in vintage style

Sydney kicks off the New Year party in vintage style

-- 2021-12-31 20:02:47

Australians bade farewell to 2021 with a traditional fireworks display over Sydney harbour as good news from South Africa - the first country to pronounce itself past its Omicron wave - brought hope f...

Britain approves Pfizer's antiviral Covid-19 pill

Britain approves Pfizer's antiviral Covid-19 pill

-- 2021-12-31 18:35:34

Britain has approved Pfizer's Covid-19 pill for patients over the age of 18 years who have mild to moderate infection and are at high risk of their illness worsening. The approval comes as the countr...

Record number of unauthorised migrants entered Panama in 2021

Record number of unauthorised migrants entered Panama in 2021

-- 2021-12-31 17:29:46

A record wave of unauthorised migrants entered Panama this year from Colombia, according to government data provided to Reuters on Thursday, as a surge of mostly Haitians entered the Central American...

Biden, Putin hold phone call amid heightened tensions over Ukraine

Biden, Putin hold phone call amid heightened tensions over Ukraine

-- 2021-12-31 17:02:01

US President Joe Biden spoke with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin via phone on Thursday amid heightened tensions over Ukraine. Biden urged Russia to "de-escalate tensions with Ukraine" and he...

S Korea's disgraced ex-president Park freed after nearly five years in prison

S Korea's disgraced ex-president Park freed after nearly five years in prison

-- 2021-12-31 16:09:25

Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye was released from prison on Friday nearly five years after being convicted of corruption, fuelling debate over whether she would play any role ahead of a Ma...

Israel signs deal to buy $3.1b in US helicopters, tankers

Israel signs deal to buy $3.1b in US helicopters, tankers

-- 2021-12-31 16:01:37

Israel has signed a deal with the United States to buy 12 Lockheed Martin Corp CH-53K helicopters and two Boeing Co KC-46 refuelling planes, the Israeli Defence Ministry said on Friday, estimating the...

Ethiopia seeks extra $2.5b to rebuild from war

Ethiopia seeks extra $2.5b to rebuild from war

-- 2021-12-31 15:13:19

Ethiopia wants to pass a supplementary budget worth 122 billion birr ($2.5 billion) to help finance programmes to rebuild areas destroyed by war and provide humanitarian aid, the finance ministry said...

Gloomy New Year for many as COVID-19 crashes the party again

Gloomy New Year for many as COVID-19 crashes the party again

-- 2021-12-31 15:11:36

New Year celebrations around the world have been called off as the coronavirus casts gloom over festivities for a second year but Australia was determined to enjoy the night and there were even signs...

Iran sends rocket into space as US-Iran nuclear talks resume in Vienna

Iran sends rocket into space as US-Iran nuclear talks resume in Vienna

-- 2021-12-31 14:26:33

Iran used a satellite launch rocket to send three research devices into space on Thursday, a defence ministry spokesman said, as indirect US-Iran talks take place in Austria to try to salvage a 2015 n...

Germany to pull the plug on 3 of its last 6 nuclear plants

Germany to pull the plug on 3 of its last 6 nuclear plants

-- 2021-12-31 14:13:06

Germany will pull the plug on three of its last six nuclear power stations on Friday, another step towards completing its withdrawal from nuclear power as it turns its focus to renewables. The govern...

Chinese bishops, priests brief HK clerics on Xi's religious views

Chinese bishops, priests brief HK clerics on Xi's religious views

-- 2021-12-31 12:41:24

Chinese bishops and religious leaders briefed senior Hong Kong Catholic clergymen on President Xi Jinping's vision of religion with "Chinese characteristics" in an unprecedented meeting organised by t...

Women force change at Indian iPhone plant

Women force change at Indian iPhone plant

-- 2021-12-31 11:55:45

For women who assembled iPhones at a Foxconn plant in southern India, crowded dorms without flush toilets and food sometimes crawling with worms were problems to be endured for the paycheck. But when...

Omicron 'blizzard' to disrupt US in weeks ahead

Omicron 'blizzard' to disrupt US in weeks ahead

-- 2021-12-31 10:50:32

US health experts on Thursday urged Americans to prepare for severe disruptions in coming weeks as the rising wave of COVID-19 cases led by the Omicron variant threatened hospitals, schools and other...

Goa's beaches packed with domestic tourists even as India tightens COVID rules

Goa's beaches packed with domestic tourists even as India tightens COVID rules

-- 2021-12-31 10:24:32

Thousands of Indian tourists have thronged the beaches, pubs and nightclubs of Goa to see in the New Year, even as the government imposed tougher restrictions to curb the latest variant of the coronav...

Russia's Covid-19 death toll climbs to world's second highest

Russia's Covid-19 death toll climbs to world's second highest

-- 2021-12-30 22:55:31

Russia has overtaken Brazil to have the world's second-highest death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic, behind the United States, data from Russia's state statistics service and Reuters calculations sho...

EU mulls arms embargo, more sanctions on Myanmar after 'appalling' violence

EU mulls arms embargo, more sanctions on Myanmar after 'appalling' violence

-- 2021-12-30 16:46:19

The European Union is ready to impose further sanctions on Myanmar after a new escalation of violence by the army and is also urging an international arms embargo on the country, its top diplomat said...

Thousands of people message late Chinese Covid whistleblower doctor two years on

Thousands of people message late Chinese Covid whistleblower doctor two years on

-- 2021-12-30 13:56:23

Thousands of people left messages on the social media account of the late Chinese COVID-19 whistleblower Li Wenliang on the anniversary of the day he learned of possible pneumonia-causing virus cases...

Biden, Putin to speak amid Ukraine tensions

Biden, Putin to speak amid Ukraine tensions

-- 2021-12-30 09:07:57

US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will speak on Thursday, the White House said, as Washington crafts a common response to Russia's military build-up on the Ukraine border w...

COVID-19 cases surge around world, raising testing and quarantine fears

COVID-19 cases surge around world, raising testing and quarantine fears

-- 2021-12-29 18:45:17

Daily COVID-19 infections have hit record highs in the United States, swathes of Europe and Australia as the new Omicron variant of the virus races out of control, keeping workers at home and overwhel...

Indonesia says will allow stranded Rohingya boat to seek refuge

Indonesia says will allow stranded Rohingya boat to seek refuge

-- 2021-12-29 18:32:58

Indonesia will allow a boat packed with Rohingya which had become stranded off its coast to dock in the Southeast Asian country, its security ministry said on Wednesday, after calls from aid organisat...

31 killed in Sudanese gold mine collapse

31 killed in Sudanese gold mine collapse

-- 2021-12-29 16:22:22

At least 31 people were killed in the collapse of a private gold mine in western Sudan, a mining official said on Tuesday. "Thirty-one bodies were recovered after the collapse of a gold mine in En Na...

China warns of 'drastic measures' if Taiwan provokes on independence

China warns of 'drastic measures' if Taiwan provokes on independence

-- 2021-12-29 16:05:20

China will take 'drastic measures' if Taiwan makes moves towards independence, a Beijing official warned on Wednesday, adding that Taiwan's provocations and outside meddling could intensify next year....

Australia seeks to ease Covid test rules as cases hit records

Australia seeks to ease Covid test rules as cases hit records

-- 2021-12-29 11:18:08

Australia will seek to make urgent changes to Covid-19 testing rules to ease pressure on test sites as infections surged and the country's most populous state reported a near doubling in daily cases,...

US cautions against optimism by Iran, Russia over nuclear talks

US cautions against optimism by Iran, Russia over nuclear talks

-- 2021-12-29 11:17:32

The United States on Tuesday expressed caution over upbeat comments by Iran and Russia about talks in Vienna to salvage the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, saying it was still too soon to say if Tehran had re...

South America now winning global vaccination race

South America now winning global vaccination race

-- 2021-12-28 21:38:22

Throughout much of 2020 and early 2021, South America was ground zero in the global fight against COVID-19. Oxygen ran low in Peru. Gravediggers worked through the night in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Bodies...

Malaysia lifts African travel ban, cuts booster waits amid omicron fears

Malaysia lifts African travel ban, cuts booster waits amid omicron fears

-- 2021-12-28 21:32:17

Malaysia has lifted a travel ban on eight southern African countries that had been among the first to report the omicron variant of the coronavirus, citing the greater spread of the variant worldwide,...

Indonesia to turn away boat of Rohingya refugees

Indonesia to turn away boat of Rohingya refugees

-- 2021-12-28 18:38:23

Indonesian authorities will help repair a stranded boat packed with over 100 Rohingya off its coast but will not allow its passengers to seek refuge in the country and will turn the vessel away, offic...