REUTERS 2021-08-10 18:54:24
Health authorities in West African country Guinea have confirmed one death from Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, the World Health Organization said on Monday. It...
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Police in the Indian capital, Delhi, have detained five men for allegedly raising anti-Muslim slogans during a protest rally. Reports say Sunday's rally was held to protest against colonial laws,...
REUTERS 2021-08-10 12:35:51
The United States said it was up to Afghan security forces to defend the country after Taliban militants captured a sixth provincial capital on Monday, along with border towns and trade routes. Presi...
REUTERS 2021-08-10 11:53:01
Thai authorities have detained at least 11 leaders of the country's anti-government protest movement and deployed hundreds of police ahead of a planned demonstration on Tuesday involving a convoy of c...
-- 2021-08-10 11:46:03
The global Covid-19 caseload has now surpassed 203 million, as the ferocious second wave of the corona pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the world amid mass inoculation efforts. The total case...
Reuters 2021-08-10 10:26:56
South Korea and the United States will face even greater security threats for going ahead with annual joint military drills due to begin this week, Kim Yo Jong, a powerful North Korean official and si...
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China reported 125 new Covid-19 cases on the mainland Monday, up from 96 cases a day earlier, in its latest outbreak of the disease. The wave is part of an expanding Covid-19 Delta variant outbreak i...
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India's Supreme Court ruled on Monday that antitrust investigations into business practices of Amazon.com Inc and Walmart's Flipkart must continue, in a setback for the two e-commerce giants who had u...
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Nagasaki on Monday marked the 76th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the Japanese city with its mayor urging Japan, the United States and Russia to do more to eliminate nuclear weapons. In his...
Reuters 2021-08-09 14:59:55
Extreme heatwaves that previously only struck once every 50 years are now expected to happen once per decade because of global warming, while downpours and droughts have also become more frequent, a U...
-- 2021-08-09 11:26:13
More than 80,000 people have been evacuated because of heavy rains and floods in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, state media reported on Monday. Water levels at major rivers in the prov...
Reuters 2021-08-09 11:14:55
At least 12 soldiers were killed in an attack in northwestern Burkina Faso on Sunday and seven others are missing, three security sources said. There was no immediate comment from the army. The sourc...
BBC 2021-08-08 19:38:32
The Taliban have captured the key northern Afghan city of Kunduz, one of the country's largest, after fierce fighting with government forces. A local official told the BBC all but the city's airport...
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One abducted girl from the Nigerian town of Chibok has been freed and reunited with her parents seven years after Boko Haram militants kidnapped her and more than 200 of her classmates, Borno state's...
-- 2021-08-08 11:17:36
The global Covid-19 caseload surpassed the 202-million mark, as the second wave of the pandemic continues to wreck havoc across the world amid mass inoculation efforts. The total caseload and fatalit...
-- 2021-08-08 11:13:37
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has mobilised the military to carry out relief work in areas recently hit by heavy rains, state media said on Sunday, amid concerns over an economic crisis and food sho...
-- 2021-08-08 11:08:10
Saudi Arabia will gradually begin receiving Umrah pilgrimage requests from abroad for vaccinated pilgrims starting Aug. 9 after about a year and a half of not receiving overseas worshippers due to the...
REUTERS 2021-08-08 11:04:29
The United States is urging Americans in Afghanistan to leave the country immediately, saying the ability of the US embassy in Kabul to help them is "extremely limited" due to security conditions and...
REUTERS 2021-08-07 22:16:49
A ship carrying 257 migrants, including Bangladeshis, docked in the Italian port of Trapani on Saturday almost a week after rescuing the people from international waters off Tunisia. Migrants onboard...
-- 2021-08-07 19:20:10
The lambda variant of the novel coronavirus, first identified in Peru, has been found in Japan for the first time, health ministry officials said Friday, reports The Japan Times citing Bloomberg. The...
REUTERS 2021-08-07 18:28:38
India has approved Johnson & Johnson's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on Saturday, health minister Mansukh Mandaviya said in a tweet. The pharmaceutical giant had applied for emer...
-- 2021-08-07 15:13:35
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson does not need to self isolate even though a member of his staff on a recent trip to Scotland tested positive for the coronavirus, his Downing Street office said....
AP 2021-08-07 14:26:07
The US was averaging about 11,000 cases a day in late June. Now the number is 107,143. It took the US about nine months to cross the 100,000 average case number in November before peaking at about 25...
REUTERS 2021-08-07 12:37:46
Australia reported a record daily number of new coronavirus cases this year on Saturday with the highly infectious Delta variant continuing to spread through the country's most populous states of New...
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The man alleged to have wounded 10 people in a knife attack on a Tokyo commuter train late on Friday told police he became incensed when he saw women who "looked happy" and wanted to kill them, Japane...
-- 2021-08-07 10:46:21
Israeli aircraft bombed Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip on Saturday in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian enclave, Israel's military said. There were no immediate reports of...
REUTERS 2021-08-07 10:19:14
One out of two Americans were fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as of Friday, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The milestone comes roughly eight months after the United...
REUTERS 2021-08-06 21:24:29
There are early signs that people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 may be able to transmit the Delta variant of the virus as easily as those who have not, scientists at Public Health England...
REUTERS 2021-08-06 19:49:17
The city of Zaranj in Afghanistan's Nimroz province fell to the Taliban on Friday, provincial police said, making it the first provincial capital the insurgents have captured as they step up offensive...
-- 2021-08-06 17:34:27
Taliban fighters on Friday assassinated the Afghanistan government's top media and information officer in the capital Kabul, the hardline militant group said. Dawa Khan Menapal, head of the Governmen...
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