Washington, May 30 (IANS): The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 169.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.52 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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Bogota, May 30 (IANS): At least six people have died in protests in the Colombian city of Cali, local media reported. Newspaper El Tiempo said there were six deaths on Saturday, while RCN Radio put the toll
Rome, May 30 (IANS): Italian investigators have released two of the three men who were detained following a deadly cable car accident last week, with the third under house arrest, as officials continue their in
London, May 30 (IANS) UK PM Boris Johnson has married his fiance Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at the Westminster Cathedral in front of about 30 close friends and family members, a media report said on Su
Hanoi, May 29 (AP): Vietnam has discovered a new coronavirus variant that's a hybrid of strains first found in India and the UK, the Vietnamese health minister said Saturday. Nguyen Thanh Long said scien
Berlin, May 29 (IANS): Forged Covid-19 vaccination certificates are appearing in Germany, with the numbers expected to grow, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) said on Saturday. According to local poli
Damascus, May 29 (IANS): At least two people were killed and 317 others injured during celebratory gunfire in Syria marking President Bashar al-Assad's re-election to a fourth term, a war monitor reported o
Brussels, May 29 (IANS): The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for children aged 12 to 15. Pfizer-BioNTech becomes the first vaccine to be authorise
Colombo, May 29 (IANS): Sri Lanka's Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) said acid rains would possibly hit the island nation as a result of the burning X-Press Pearl container ship in the waters
Bangkok, May 29 (IANS): A total of 22,101 lodged in jails across Thailand have been infected with Covid-19, a government official confirmed. In a statement on Friday, Veerakit Harnpariphan, deputy director g
Copenhagen, May 29 (IANS): The Danish government has launched its new digital "corona passport", an app named Coronapas, in a bid to facilitate travel within the European Union (EU) this summer. De
Damascus, May 29 (IANS): After scoring a sweeping victory in this weeks presidential election, incumbent Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that the vote was "a slap in the faces of enemies". As
Brasilia, May 29 (IANS): At least four people were killed after a fire broke out in a Covid-19 patient area at a public hospital in the Brazilian city of Aracaju, capital of Sergipe state, local authorities sai
Ottawa, May 29 (IANS): The remains of 215 indigenous children were discovered at a former residential school in Kamloops in western Canada, authorities said, adding an investigation into the matter has been lau
Paris, May 28 (AP): A man with severe schizophrenia who had been on a watch list for Islamic radicalism stabbed a police officer at her station Friday in western France and shot two other officers before police
Moscow, May 28 (AP): Belarus' authoritarian leader will discuss closer economic ties with Russia on Friday, as he seeks support from his main backer amid a bruising showdown with the European Union over the
Washington, May 28 (AP): Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says the government is taking a very close look at the possibility of vaccine passports for travel into and out of the United States. A
Brussels, May 28 (AP): The European Commission said on Friday it has given one month to the Chinese-owned video app TikTok to answer complaints from an European consumers group over its commercial practices.
Berlin, May 28 (IANS): An 84-year-old man went on trial in Germany on Friday accused of hoarding a stash of Nazi-era weapons, including an army tank, in the basement of his residence in the city of Kiel. The Wo-
Washington, May 28 (PTI): A prominent Hindu American advocacy group alleged on Thursday that it has been threatened by Pakistan for recently launching a website exposing the role of the Pakistan Army in the 197
