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Italy shortens COVID-19 curfew, eases other restrictions

-- 2021-05-18 12:47:00

Italy's government has approved a decree pushing back with immediate effect a nightly coronavirus curfew to 11:00 pm from 10:00 pm and easing other curbs in the regions where infections are low. Prim...

Erdogan condemns Biden for approval of arms sales to Israel

-- 2021-05-18 11:53:24

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned his US counterpart Joe Biden for approval of arms sales to Israel. The US president was "writing history with bloody hands in this incident where...

Myanmar activists say over 800 killed by security forces since coup

Reuters 2021-05-18 11:42:03

More than 800 people have been killed by Myanmar's security forces since a wave of protests broke out across the country after the military seized power in a coup in February, an activist group said....

India's tally of virus cases surges past 25 million

Reuters 2021-05-18 10:19:40

India's total coronavirus cases surged past the 25 million mark on Tuesday, boosted by 263,533 new infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths from Covid-19 rose by a record 4,329. India becomes...

Indian doctors, trained abroad, forced to stand by as Covid-19 sweeps nation

Reuters 2021-05-18 09:59:21

Some 90,000 Indian doctors armed with medical degrees from Russia, China and Ukraine are urging the government to put them to work in the battle against Covid-19 instead of standing idly by, waiting f...

Israel-Gaza violence shows few signs of abating as global diplomacy ramps up

-- 2021-05-18 09:36:34

More than a week of fighting between Israel and Hamas showed few signs of abating on Tuesday despite intense US and global diplomacy to stop the region's fiercest hostilities in years. The Israeli mi...

Biden to send 20m Covid vaccine doses abroad by end of June

-- 2021-05-18 09:23:48

President Joe Biden will send at least 20 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad by the end of June, marking the first time the United States is sharing vaccines authorised for domestic use. The...

Gujarat state braces for severe cyclone in over two decades

Reuters 2021-05-17 18:45:02

Nearly 150,000 people were moved from their homes in the Indian state of Gujarat to safety on Monday and authorities closed ports and a main airport as the most intense cyclone in more than two decade...

China to ease birth policy but wary of social risks, sources say

REUTERS 2021-05-17 17:50:09

China will tread carefully in relaxing its birth policies for fear of harming social stability, even as the latest census highlights the urgency to address the country's declining birth trends and age...

India arrests seven for selling remdesivir smuggled from Bangladesh

-- 2021-05-17 17:29:20

Indian police have seized over 150 vials of Remdesivir drugs smuggled from Bangladesh and arrested seven people for their involvement in the smuggling of the drugs. The accused were identified as S V...

Israel kills Islamic Jihad commander, Palestinians renew rocket barrage

Reuters 2021-05-17 17:18:39

Israel killed a senior Palestinian militant commander in Gaza on Monday in air strikes which it said also targeted underground tunnels used by Hamas, and Islamist groups renewed rocket attacks on Isra...

KSA eases travel ban for vaccinated citizens

AP 2021-05-17 16:58:39

Vaccinated Saudis will be allowed to leave the kingdom for the first time in more than a year on Monday as the country eases a ban on international travel aimed at containing the spread of the coronav...

India reports further decline in virus cases but expert says positive tests ominously high

-- 2021-05-17 13:42:18

India on Monday reported a further decline in new coronavirus cases though daily deaths remained above 4,000 and experts warned that the count was unreliable due to a lack of testing in rural areas, w...

Israel pounds Gaza with dozens of strikes as fighting enters second week

-- 2021-05-17 11:01:15

Israel launched dozens of air strikes in Gaza and the Hamas militant group kept up its rocket attacks on Israeli cities in fighting that spilled into a second week on Monday. International calls moun...

Israel-Palestinian conflict marks its deadliest day as scenes of horror unfold in Gaza

CNN 2021-05-16 22:08:43

Israel bombed the house of Hamas' Gaza leader and obliterated a family's home in Gaza as Hamas launched more than 100 rockets towards Israel on Sunday, marking the deadliest day of the week-long confl...

Police move revellers off streets at Barcelona after lockdown easing

REUTERS 2021-05-16 21:51:17

Spanish police said they cleared 9,000 revellers from Barcelona's city centre streets and the nearby beach on Sunday to prevent dangerous overcrowding on the first full weekend after COVID-19 restrict...

Bangladesh urges UNSC to address Palestinian issue

-- 2021-05-16 21:42:16

Bangladesh today urged the UN Security Council (UNSC) to take up the issue of violence and breach of security in the Al-Quds Al-Shareef and the entire occupied land of the State of Palestine. “...

Israeli air strikes kill 181 Palestinians, including 47 children, in seven days

-- 2021-05-16 19:28:14

Israeli air strikes killed at least 181 Palestinians, including 47 children, amid an intensive air and artillery barrage since the fighting erupted last Monday. Ten people have been killed in Israel,...

KSA condemns Israel's 'flagrant violations' of Palestinian rights

Reuters 2021-05-16 18:46:53

Saudi Arabia on Sunday condemned Israel's "flagrant violations" of Palestinian rights and called for global action to end military operations while fellow Gulf states that forged ties with Israel said...

No alternative to vaccine passports, says Dubai airport boss

BBC 2021-05-16 17:47:39

The boss of the world's busiest airport for international passengers has said Covid passports are the only way to restart mass foreign travel. Dubai Airports chief executive Paul Griffiths told the B...

Kid reporter who interviewed Obama at White House dies at 23

-- 2021-05-16 17:39:02

The student reporter who gained national acclaim when he interviewed President Barack Obama at the White House in 2009 has died of natural causes, his family says. Damon Weaver was 23 when he died Ma...

India to start evacuating parts of west coast as powerful cyclone approaches

REUTERS 2021-05-16 17:26:01

India is preparing to evacuate thousands of people from low-lying areas along its western coast as a powerful cyclone is expected to make landfall on Tuesday morning in the state of Gujarat. "It is v...

Greece formally opens to tourists after months of pandemic restrictions

REUTERS 2021-05-16 17:22:43

Greece formally opened to visitors on Saturday, kicking off a summer season it hopes will resurrect its vital tourism industry battered by the coronavirus pandemic. After months of lockdown restricti...

Israel air strikes kill 26 Palestinians, rockets fired from Gaza

-- 2021-05-16 16:44:44

Israeli air strikes killed 26 Palestinians, including eight children, in Gaza early on Sunday, Gaza health officials said, and rockets were fired into Israel as hostilities stretched into a seventh da...

Philippines douses five-hour blaze in hospital treating COVID-19 patients

-- 2021-05-16 16:36:33

Firefighters put out a blaze early on Sunday at one of the Philippines' largest hospitals that had prompted the evacuation of dozens of patients from the facility, which also treats coronavirus suffer...

Global coronavirus cases hit 162 million

-- 2021-05-16 11:49:23

As Covid-19 cases keep rising day by day in the world, over 162 million people have so far been infected with the deadly virus. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total caseload from th...

Iraq lifts lockdown, imposing partial curfew

-- 2021-05-16 11:08:39

Iraq's authorities has lifted the planned 10-day full lockdown put into effect to curb the rising COVID-19 infections, replacing it with a partial curfew. The Iraqi authorities earlier decided to tig...

6.1-magnitude quake hits off Japan's Hokkaido Prefecture

-- 2021-05-16 10:40:18

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck off Japan's Hokkaido Prefecture on Sunday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The temblor occurred at around 0:24 pm local time, with its...

Nine killed in shootout in Pakistan's Sindh

-- 2021-05-16 10:31:25

At least nine people were killed and five others seriously injured in a shootout between two rival groups on Saturday night in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, local media reported. According to t...

Israel bombs Hamas Gaza chief's home

REUTERS 2021-05-16 10:00:55

Israel bombed the home of Hamas's chief in Gaza early on Sunday and the Islamist group fired rocket barrages at Tel Aviv as hostilities stretched into a seventh day with no sign of abating. At least...