Washington, January 8 (IANS): Amid an ongoing resurgence across the world, the global coronavirus caseload has topped 302.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.47 million and vaccinations to ov
Tuesday, 30th September, 2025
Support The Morung Express. Your Contributions Matter Click Here
World
Moscow, January 7 (AP): The President of Kazakhstan said Friday he authorised law enforcement to open fire on terrorists and shoot to kill, a move that comes after days of extremely violent protests in the form
London, January 7 (PTI): The reduced severity of Omicron is good news for now, but it is the result of an "evolutionary mistake" as COVID-19 is transmitting very efficiently and there is no reason for
Dhaka, January 7 (IANS): As the Covid-19 pandemic situation worsens, the Bangladeshi government has decided not to allow students aged between 12 and 17 without vaccination to return to school. Bangladeshi C
Sydney, January 7 (IANS): As the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) is battling the latest Covid-19 outbreak, authorities on Friday reintroduced restrictions. NSW, the current epicentre of the pandemi
Sao Paulo, January 7 (IANS): Brazil's largest city of Sao Paulo has cancelled Carnival street parades following an increase in Covid-19 infections and hospitalisations fuelled by the Omicron variant, Mayor
Stockholm, January 7 (IANS): A maternity ward of a Swedish hospital is fully occupied by women infected with Covid-19, state media reported In its report, the Swedish Television (SVT) said that country has b
San Francisco, January 7 (IANS): Former US President Donald Trump's new social media app, Truth Social, will launch on the iOS platform on February 21, according to a listing on the App Store. The app is
Brussels, January 7 (IANS): Josep Borrell, high representative of the European Union (EU) for foreign affairs and security policy, has expressed "great concerns" about the ongoing unrest in Kazakhstan
Moscow, January 6 (AP): Dozens of protesters and 12 police died during extraordinarily violent demonstrations in Kazakhstan that saw government buildings stormed and set ablaze, authorities said Thursday. One p
Islamabad, January 6 (PTI): Afghanistan's Taliban regime has said that it will not allow fencing by Pakistan in any form along the Durand Line, issuing a stern warning to Islamabad, amid escalating tensions
Seoul, January 6 (AP): North Korea claimed Thursday to have conducted the second successful test flight of a hypersonic missile, days after leader Kim Jong Un vowed to bolster his military forces despite pandem
Dubai, January 6 (AP): Thousands of mourners poured into the streets of Iranian cities on Thursday for the mass funeral of 250 victims of the Iran-Iraq war, a testament to the brutal conflict's widespread s
Bangkok, January 6 (AP): Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen begins a visit to strife-torn Myanmar on Friday that he hopes will invigorate efforts by Southeast Asian nations to start a peace process, but critics s
Paris, January 5 (AP): French President Emmanuel Macron has provoked outcries in parliament and protests from election rivals by using a vulgarity to describe his strategy for pressuring vaccine refusers to get
Seoul, January 5 (AP): North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile into the sea on Wednesday, the South Korean and Japanese militaries said, its first public weapons launch in about two months and a signal
Birth rates in China's 10 provincial-level regions fall below 1 per cent, showing demographic crisisBeijing, January 5 (PTI): Birth rates in 10 of China's provincial-level regions fell below one per cent in 2020, accentuating the world's most populous country's dilemma in addressing the deepening
Hong Kong, January 4 (AP): Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday said that the recent closure of two media outlets in the city does not reflect the state of press freedom in Hong Kong as the decisions were mad
Geneva, January 4 (AP): A top World Health Organisation official says low hospitalisation and death rates in South Africa due to the omicron variant cannot be considered a template for how the variant will fare
Beijing, January 4 (IANS): At least 30 people were injured after a 5.5-magnitude earthquake jolted Ninglang County in China's Yunnan province two days, local authorities said on Tuesday. All the injured
