Rise in Delta variant cases worry UK residents, experts hopeful of AstraZeneca vaccine

Real-world data from Public Health England comes as a reassurance against the Delta variant as the number of Covid-19 cases rises in the UK, leading experts to fear the third wave. Had all gone according to plan, on June 21, England would have fully come out of the shackles of lockdown, but that was not to be. Pat…

No need for nuclear arsenal once Kashmir issue is resolved: Pakistan PM Imran Khan

Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is “simply a deterrent” to protect the country and there will no longer be any need for it once the Kashmir issue is resolved, Prime Minister Imran Khan has said as he asserted that if the Americans have the resolve and the will, the issue can be sorted out. Pakistan has 165 nuclear…

Imran Khan does it again, blames women wearing ‘small clothes’ for sexual violenc

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is again drawing flak for his comments blaming women for the rising sexual violence in the country. In an interview with Axios’ journalist Jonathan Swan on HBO, which aired on June 20, the prime minister said, “If a woman is wearing very few clothes it will have an…

US Envoy Offers To Meet North Korea “Anywhere Anytime”

The US special representative for North Korea on Monday offered to meet with Pyongyang “anywhere, anytime, without preconditions”, with no public contact so far between the Biden administration and the nuclear-armed nation. Sung Kim’s remarks came after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last week gave…

Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down Temporarily After “Technical Fault”

Iran’s southern Bushehr nuclear power plant has been temporarily shut down over a “technical fault”, the country’s atomic energy body said in a statement. “Following a technical fault at Bushehr power plant, and after a one-day notice to the energy ministry, the plant was temporarily shut…

Mysterious Gemstones Sparked A ‘Diamond Rush’ In South Africa. Then…

Gemstones that sparked a diamond rush to eastern South Africa last week have turned out to be just quartz, according to preliminary findings presented Sunday. Thousands of people flocked to a hillside in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province to dig for mysterious stones first unearthed by a cattle herder and…

Brazil Passes Half A Million Covid Deaths, Experts Warn Of Worse Ahead

Brazil’s death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 500,000 on Saturday as experts warn that the world’s second-deadliest outbreak may worsen due to delayed vaccinations and the government’s refusal to back social distancing measures. Only 11% of Brazilians have been fully vaccinated and epidemiologists warn…

Four Killed, Four Badly Injured In Plane Crash In Siberia

Four people were killed and four badly injured on Saturday when a small plane crashed in Russia’s Kemerovo region in southwestern Siberia, the local emergency medical service said. TASS news agency earlier said at least seven people were killed when the twin-engine L-410 crashed near the Tanay aerodrome, which…

Ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi wins landslide victory in Iran’s presidential election

Iran’s hard-line judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi won the country’s presidential election in a landslide victory Saturday, propelling the supreme leader’s protege into Tehran’s highest civilian position in a vote that appeared to see the lowest turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history.…

Delta Variant Accounts For Nearly 90% Of New Covid Cases In Moscow: Mayor

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Friday that the highly infectious Delta variant first identified in India represents almost 90 percent of new cases in the Russian capital. “The latest data we have received is that 89.3 percent are sick with a mutated coronavirus, the so-called ‘Delta,'” Sobyanin…