China launched a spacecraft on Thursday carrying three astronauts to part of a space station still under construction for the longest stay in low Earth orbit by any Chinese national. A Long March 2F rocket transporting the Shenzhou-12, or “Divine Vessel”, bound for the space station module Tianhe blasted…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un warned about possible food shortages and called for his people to brace for extended COVID-19 restrictions as he opened a major political conference to discuss national efforts to salvage a broken economy. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency also said Wednesday that Kim…
With the number of Covid cases on a decline, several European countries have decided to ease restrictions. The European Parliament has also approved the use of Digital Covid Certificates for travelling within the European Union. The World Health Organisation, however, had warned last week that the continent was “by…
A woman was killed and three other people injured when a man drove into a crowd of demonstrators who were protesting the shooting death by US Marshals of a Black man in Minneapolis, police said Monday. Police said the man, who may have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol, drove his vehicle into a group of…
Benjamin Netanyahu’s record 12-year run as Israel’s PM ended with parliament approving a new “government of change” led by nationalist Naftali Bennett. Israel’s parliament narrowly approved a new coalition government, ending the historic 12-year rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and…
At their concluding session, Joe Biden and his colleagues were set to promise more financial support for developing countries on the sharp edge of climate change. G7 leaders on Saturday confronted China and the threat of future pandemics as the elite club of wealthy nations advertised a newfound Western unity at its…
In the light of rise in cases of the Delta variant of Covid-19, the UK government is considering a delay of up to four weeks from the scheduled June 21 end to all lockdown restrictions. The UK government is considering a delay of up to four weeks from the scheduled June 21 end to all lockdown restrictions amid a…
While arrests are yet to be made in any of the attacks, which took place in the Texas capital of Austin, Chicago and Savannah, Georgia, the incidents have sparked fears of a resurgence in gun violence as Covid restricitons are lifted. Two people were killed and at least 30 others wounded in mass shootings overnight in…
In a report published in the journal Cell, the Chinese researchers from Shandong University said, “In total, we assembled 24 novel coronavirus genomes from different bat species, including four SARS-CoV-2 like coronaviruses.” Amid renewed calls to probe into the origins of COVID-19, Chinese researchers said…
For the entire pandemic period, the task force has reported nearly 5.2 million infections in the country of about 146 million people, and 126,000 deaths. Russia’s national coronavirus taskforce on Saturday reported that the country’s tally of daily new infections has risen by nearly 50 per cent over the…