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-- 2021-12-03 12:19:00
Asia-Pacific countries should boost their healthcare capacity and fully vaccinate their people to prepare for a surge in Covid-19 cases fuelled by the Omicron variant, officials at the World Healt...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-03 11:41:21
India's capital New Delhi has ordered the closure of schools and colleges until further notice from Friday after the Supreme Court criticised the city government for reopening educational institutions...
-- 2021-12-03 10:52:20
US President Joe Biden on Thursday laid out his strategy to fight the coronavirus as the highly contagious Omicron spread across the globe with winter coming and hours after the first known US case of...
-- 2021-12-02 20:55:14
South Africa is seeing an increase in COVID-19 reinfections due to the omicron variant but symptoms for reinfected patients and those infected after vaccination appear to be mild, a scientist studying...
-- 2021-12-02 18:44:47
Singapore has detected two imported cases of the Covid-19 omicron variant, both of whom have been isolated, its health ministry said on Thursday. Contact tracing was ongoing for passengers on the sam...
-- 2021-12-02 17:57:57
UN human rights experts on Thursday called on Myanmar's military chief to immediately halt ongoing forced evictions and home demolitions of informal settlements in Hlaing Thar Yar Township in the Yang...
-- 2021-12-02 17:42:59
India has detected two cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant in the southern state of Karnataka, a health ministry official said on Thursday. "All primary contacts and secondary contacts of bo...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-02 10:34:55
The World Bank's board has backed transferring $280 million from a frozen trust fund to two aid agencies to help Afghanistan cope with a brewing humanitarian crisis after the US withdrawal, two source...
-- 2021-12-01 20:37:43
Barbados stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and became a republic for the first time in history. Several leaders, dignitaries...
-- 2021-12-01 20:06:17
Serum Institute of India has sent doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Indonesia, in its first export of the Novavax shot through the COVAX network, the Indian government said on Wednesday. The world's bigge...
-- 2021-12-01 19:11:43
At least 20 people were killed and seven others hospitalised after an overloaded boat capsized in Nigeria's northern state of Kano Tuesday evening, local authorities said Wednesday. "The boat was fer...
-- 2021-12-01 18:31:53
China told Indonesia to stop drilling for oil and natural gas in maritime territory that both countries regard as their own during a months-long standoff in the South China Sea earlier this year, four...
-- 2021-12-01 17:48:59
A 15-year-old boy killed three fellow high school students and wounded eight other people upon opening fire with a semi-automatic handgun at a Michigan high school, and he was quickly arrested, police...
-- 2021-12-01 16:06:30
Saudi Arabia confirmed its first case of the omicron COVID-19 variant coming from a north African country, state news agency SPA reported on Wednesday, according to Reuters. SPA, quoting a stat...
-- 2021-12-01 14:54:36
India's capital Delhi recorded its worst November air in at least six years, according to official data. The city recorded 11 days of "severe" pollution, up from 10 days in November 2016. Data also...
-- 2021-12-01 14:03:24
A United Nations committee meeting on Wednesday is unlikely to allow Afghanistan's Taliban or Myanmar's junta to represent their countries at the 193-member world body, say diplomats. Rival claims ha...
-- 2021-12-01 13:35:36
Ukraine urged NATO on Wednesday to prepare economic sanctions on Russia and boost military cooperation with Kyiv as the country joined the Western alliance for talks about how to deter Russia from a r...
-- 2021-12-01 13:26:53
The overall number of Covid cases is fast approaching 263 million amid the global race to vaccinate masses against the infectious disease. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case...
-- 2021-12-01 13:26:21
Air travellers to the United States will face tougher Covid-19 testing rules, as several countries moved to seal-off their borders amid heightened uncertainty around the virulence of the Omicron varia...
-- 2021-12-01 10:25:26
South Korea reported a new daily record of 5,123 new coronavirus cases, as it battles to contain a sharp rise in patients with severe symptoms and stave off the Omicron variant, the Korea Disease Cont...
-- 2021-11-30 22:52:11
A German court on Tuesday jailed a former Islamic State militant for life for involvement in genocide and crimes against humanity against minority Yazidis in Iraq and Syria, including the murder of a...
-- 2021-11-30 21:22:00
New findings about the coronavirus's omicron variant made it clear Tuesday that the emerging threat slipped into countries well before their defences were up, as two distant nations announced their fi...
-- 2021-11-30 20:48:33
Sudanese security forces deployed tear gas on tens of thousands of protesters gathering in central Khartoum on Tuesday to oppose military rule following last month's coup. Neighbourhood resistance co...
-- 2021-11-30 20:34:57
Amid a global scare over the new Omicron variant of Covid, India on Tuesday issued new rules for international travellers to limit the possible spread of the virus. In a statement, the Indian governm...
-- 2021-11-30 19:48:12
Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte's preferred successor, Senator Christopher "Bong" Go, announced on Tuesday he was dropping out of the presidential race, leaving the administration without a candida...
-- 2021-11-30 18:07:57
The omicron variant was already in the Netherlands when South Africa alerted the World Health Organization (WHO)about it last week, Dutch health authorities said Tuesday, adding to fear and confusion...
-- 2021-11-30 17:25:58
New mask mandates and other measures aimed at curbing the spread of the omicron coronavirus variant came into force in England on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson eyes an expanded booster prog...
-- 2021-11-30 17:23:00
The World Bank is finalising a proposal to deliver up to $500 million from a frozen Afghanistan aid fund to humanitarian agencies, people familiar with the plans told Reuters, but it leaves out tens o...
Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2021-11-30 16:57:48
The British Monarchy, apart from being the symbol of the United Kingdom, has still been functional as a separate monarchy for fourteen different countries across the globe which are collectively known...
-- 2021-11-30 16:48:51
Japan on Tuesday confirmed its first case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, in a man who had arrived in the country from Namibia, reports Reuters. The man in his 30s had earlier tested posit...
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