Reuters 2021-06-25 09:57:57
Rescue crews picked through tons of rubble on Thursday looking for survivors after the collapse of part of an oceanfront apartment tower overnight near Miami, where officials reported at least one per...
REUTERS 2021-06-24 20:06:35
Oman will start granting long-term residence visas to foreign investors, state media said on Wednesday, as the debt-burdened Gulf state pursues wide-ranging reforms to fix its shaky finances. The mov...
Reuters 2021-06-24 18:45:35
The potent greenhouse gas methane is spewing out of natural gas infrastructure across the European Union because of leaks and venting, video footage made available to Reuters shows. Using a 100,000 e...
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Bhutan's Prime Minister on Thursday said he "has no problem" in mixing-and-matching COVID-19 vaccine doses to immunise a population of about 700,000 people in the tiny Himalayan nation. Bhutan, nestl...
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Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told Myanmar's junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing that Moscow is committed to strengthening military ties with it, Russia's RIA news agency reported. R...
Reuters 2021-06-23 17:41:16
The University of Oxford said on Wednesday it was testing anti-parasitic drug ivermectin as a possible treatment for COVID-19, as part of a British government-backed study that aims to aid recoveries...
REUTERS 2021-06-23 16:19:39
Japan's top court on Wednesday threw out a challenge by three couples who wanted to keep their own surnames after marriage, ruling those laws stipulating Japanese couples must choose one family name w...
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At least seven people were injured when a blast went off inside a residential area in Lahore, the capital city of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province Wednesday, local media reported. The nature of the...
Reuters 2021-06-23 14:04:24
The US Justice Department said on Tuesday it seized 36 Iranian-linked websites, many of them associated with either disinformation activities or violent organisations, taking them offline for violatin...
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Sweeping new restrictions will be imposed across Sydney as Australia's largest city grapples with a fast-growing Covid outbreak. Authorities reported 16 new infections on Wednesday, which brings...
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India's COVID-19 tally surpassed 30 million-mark and the death toll crossed 390,000 on Wednesday, said the federal health ministry. While the tally rose to 30,028,709, the aggregate death toll reache...
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The Covid-19 pandemic continues to devastate countries across the world. The total caseload has now surged past 179 million. In fact, the global case count and fatalities stand at 179,095,448 and 3,8...
Reuters 2021-06-23 09:14:30
India on Tuesday declared a new coronavirus variant to be of concern, and said nearly two dozen cases had been detected in three states. The variant, identified locally as "Delta plus", was found in...
AP 2021-06-22 21:56:44
Palestinians and Jewish settlers hurled stones, chairs and fireworks at each other overnight in a tense Jerusalem neighborhood where settler groups are trying to evict several Palestinian families, of...
AL JAZEERA 2021-06-22 21:13:21
Former President Donald Trump considered sending US citizens infected with the coronavirus to Guantanamo Bay, according to a new book “Don’t we have an island that we own?” Trump as...
REUTERS 2021-06-22 20:41:58
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to jail people who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Philippines battles one of Asia's worst outbreaks, with over 1.3 million case...
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Italy will lift a requirement that people wear face masks outdoors from June 28, the country said late on Monday, as COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations declined. Mandatory masks were imposed in Octo...
REUTERS 2021-06-22 17:35:50
Myanmar security forces backed by armoured vehicles clashed on Tuesday with a newly formed militia group in the second-biggest city of Mandalay resulting in at least two casualties, according to membe...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-06-22 17:17:18
The share of renewable energy that achieved lower costs than the most competitive fossil fuel option doubled in 2020, a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) showed. “...
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More than 8,500 children were used as soldiers last year in various conflicts across the world and nearly 2,700 others were killed, the United Nations said on Monday. UN chief Antonio Guterres' annua...
Global Times 2021-06-22 15:30:27
Chinese government approved a list of COVID-19 vaccines for export on Tuesday in a bid to support the vaccine exports and support global cooperation against the pandemic. The Ministry of Commerce (MO...
REUTERS 2021-06-22 15:25:16
Pakistan has made an agreement to procure 13 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer, the country's health minister said on Tuesday. An exact timeline was not yet available, health minister Fai...
Thomson Reuters Foundation 2021-06-22 14:10:23
When Esther Dhlamini went to collect her pension in Johannesburg's Soweto township, she was surprised to find a local bishop on hand to soothe her fears about Covid-19 vaccination and register her for...
REUTERS 2021-06-21 22:02:18
The top United Nations human rights official said on Monday she hoped to agree terms for a visit this year to China, including its Xinjiang region, to look into reports of serious violations against M...
Reuters 2021-06-21 21:56:54
India gave out a record 7.5 million vaccine doses on Monday under a federal campaign to inoculate all adults for free after weeks of criticism that a chaotic rollout had worsened a second wave that ki...
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India on Monday began a nationwide campaign of free COVID-19 shots for all adults after weeks of criticism that a chaotic rollout had caused acute shortages and intensified a deadly second wave that k...
Reuters 2021-06-21 13:54:36
Ethiopians voted on Monday in national and regional elections that the prime minister has billed as proof of his commitment to democracy after decades of repressive rule in Africa's second-most populo...
Reuters 2021-06-21 11:59:17
Western officials warned Tehran on Sunday that negotiations to revive its nuclear deal could not continue indefinitely, after the sides announced a break following the election of a new hardline presi...
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Negotiators for Iran and six world powers on Sunday adjourned talks on reviving their 2015 nuclear deal and return to respective capitals for consultations as remaining differences still need to be ov...
-- 2021-06-20 20:36:16
A real estate developer in China has constructed a 10-storey earthquake-resistant residential building in 28 hours. Broad Group, the developer of the building, shared a nearly five-minute-long video...
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