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EU agrees potential 1.8 billion-dose purchase of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine

-- 2021-05-08 19:17:19

The European Union cemented its support for Pfizer-BioNTech and its novel COVID-19 vaccine technology Saturday by agreeing to a massive contract extension for a potential 1.8 billion doses through 202...

Beyond India, Asian countries ravaged by fresh coronavirus waves

CNN 2021-05-08 17:08:46

As India's coronavirus catastrophe worsens, new waves of infections are fast engulfing a growing number of nations across South and Southeast Asia -- with some grappling with their worst outbreaks s...

China urges UN members to avoid event on Uyghurs, other minorities

REUTERS 2021-05-08 16:52:33

China has urged United Nations member states not to attend an event planned next week by Germany, the United States and Britain on the repression of Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang, ac...

Chinese rocket debris set to hit earth early Sunday

Reuters 2021-05-08 15:41:08

Remnants of China's largest rocket launched last week are expected to plunge back through the atmosphere late Saturday or early Sunday, a US federally funded space-focused research and development cen...

How the US locked up Covid vaccine materials other nations urgently need

REUTERS 2021-05-08 13:39:42

To fight the pandemic at home, the United States gave its own vaccine manufacturers priority access to American-made materials needed to make the shots. As a result, the US government laid claim not...

India's Tamil Nadu announces lockdown as Covid deaths continue to surge

-- 2021-05-08 13:17:18

India's southern state of Tamil Nadu announced new lockdown measures on Saturday as officials reported a nationwide record number of single-day COVID-19 deaths as cases continue to surge. India's hea...

India sees record daily rise in Covid-19 deaths as case numbers surge

Reuters 2021-05-08 12:16:38

India on Saturday reported a record one-day rise in Covid-19 deaths as cases surged by more than 400,000 for the third consecutive day. India's health ministry reported 4,187 fatalities over the past...

Dozens injured as Israeli police, Palestinians clash at Al-Aqsa Mosque

Reuters 2021-05-08 10:52:36

Israeli police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades towards rock-hurling Palestinian youth at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday amid growing anger over the potential eviction of Palestinians from...

WHO approves Chinese vaccine for first the time

-- 2021-05-07 21:38:49

The World Health Organization announced on Friday it had approved a COVID-19 vaccine from China's state-owned drugmaker Sinopharm for emergency use. The vaccine, one of two main Chinese shots that co...

Doctors in Nepal warn of major crisis as virus cases surge

AP 2021-05-07 20:21:28

Across the border from a devastating surge in India, doctors in Nepal warned Friday of a major crisis as daily coronavirus cases hit a record and hospitals were running out of beds and oxygen. Nepal...

Indian coronavirus variant spreads more easily, British health officials say

-- 2021-05-07 19:38:38

British health officials on Friday labelled a coronavirus variant first found in India a "variant of concern" due to evidence it spreads more easily, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying the situa...

China says its rocket debris highly unlikely to cause any harm

REUTERS 2021-05-07 19:21:26

Most debris from a large Chinese rocket expected to plunge back through the atmosphere this weekend will be burned up on reentry and is highly unlikely to cause any harm, Chinese foreign ministry spok...

Firefighters tackle blaze at 19-storey London tower block

-- 2021-05-07 19:09:23

Firefighters in London were tackling a blaze at a 19-storey block of flats in the east of the city on Friday, with smoke emerging from parts of the 8th, 9th and 10th floors and ambulances treating peo...

Some Americans hesitate to shed masks despite eased outdoor rules

REUTERS 2021-05-07 18:57:27

Anita Glick felt somewhat liberated as she walked her friend's dog around Washington's Capitol Hill neighbourhood this week, her face mask looped around a wrist thanks to US health authorities' new gu...

Pakistan PM Imran Khan in Saudi Arabia to discuss relations

-- 2021-05-07 18:16:48

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan begins a two-day visit on Friday to Saudi Arabia, a traditionally close ally but with whom relations have been strained for months. Khan, invited by Saudi Arabian...

Rahul Gandhi warns 'explosive' COVID wave threatens India, world

REUTERS 2021-05-07 17:38:58

India's main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi warned on Friday that unless the deadly second COVID-19 wave sweeping the country was brought under control it would decimate India as well as threaten the...

Third wave of pandemic 'appears to be broken, German health minister says

-- 2021-05-07 17:21:55

The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic appears to be broken, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Friday, as social distancing measures and an accelerating vaccination campaign help lower the...

Unused Covid vaccines piling up in Japan

-- 2021-05-07 15:56:18

Unused Covid-19 vaccines in Japan are set to reach tens of millions of doses, as the country is poised to approve two more shots in coming weeks and the pace of its inoculation campaign remains slow d...

Maldives ex-president Nasheed hurt in blast

-- 2021-05-07 12:57:15

Maldives' former president Mohamed Nasheed was undergoing surgery on Friday after he was hit by shrapnel from a bomb blast outside his home, his party said. Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for...

India logs 1.5m new Covid-19 cases in a week

Reuters 2021-05-07 12:34:38

India reported another record daily rise in coronavirus cases on Friday, bringing total new cases for the week to 1.57 million, as the country's vaccination rate falls dramatically due to a lack of su...

Russia authorises single-dose Sputnik Light Covid vaccine for use

Reuters 2021-05-07 10:42:23

Russia has authorised the one-shot Sputnik Light version of its Covid-19 vaccine for use, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said on Thursday, a move that could help vaccine supplies go further...

Delhi's popular autorickshaws become COVID-19 ambulances

-- 2021-05-06 20:48:20

It's not the most conventional way to get to hospital, but with Delhi running short of ambulances, authorities have turned some of the city's ubiquitous three-wheeled autorickshaws into makeshift ambu...

Indonesia begins its Eid-ul-Fitr travel ban as some try to skirt rules

REUTERS 2021-05-06 19:27:28

Indonesia began imposing a previously announced ban on domestic travel on Thursday as it sought to contain the spread of the coronavirus during the Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations, when millions normally tra...

India sees record daily rises in Covid-19 infections, deaths

Reuters 2021-05-06 12:43:30

India reported a record 412,262 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday and a record 3,980 daily death toll, as a second wave of infections swamps the health system and spreads from cities into the vast countr...

US embassy in the doghouse in China

REUTERS 2021-05-06 11:13:27

The resumption of student visa applications at US missions in China got off to an acrimonious start this week when netizens took exception to an American embassy social media post they interpreted as...

Scientist warns further Covid waves 'inevitable' in India

-- 2021-05-06 10:40:43

A top scientific adviser to the Indian government warned on Wednesday the country would inevitably face further waves of the coronavirus pandemic, as almost 4,000 people died in the space of a day. W...

US backs giving poorer countries access to Covid vaccine patents

Reuters 2021-05-06 10:37:13

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday threw his support behind waiving intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines, bowing to mounting pressure from Democratic lawmakers and more than 100 other c...

Facebook's oversight board upholds suspension of Donald Trump

REUTERS 2021-05-05 20:02:20

Facebook Inc's oversight board on Wednesday upheld the company's suspension of former US President Donald Trump but gave the company six months to determine a “proportionate response” goin...

Myanmar doctors, students learn how to fire guns at military camps in jungle

CNN 2021-05-05 16:55:08

A dozen armed recruits crawl along a dusty pathway, the cicadas masking any sound of their approach towards their target, a small village in the jungles of Myanmar. The ambush scenario is fabricated...

Turkey, Egypt start talks Wednesday after eight-year rift

-- 2021-05-05 16:32:06

Turkey and Egypt will try to improve strained ties at talks starting in Cairo on Wednesday after an eight-year rift which led them to back rival factions in Libya's war and put them at odds in a dispu...