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Brazil reports more than 3,000 new coronavirus deaths
April 28, 2021, 1:28 pm
BUENOS AIRES – Brazil registered 3,086 coronavirus deaths and more than 72,000 cases in the past 24 hours, authorities said Tuesday. The country’s death toll from the virus rose to 395,022. The Health Ministry confirmed 72,140 new infections, taking the overall count to more than 14.44… Read More
India's daily Covid-19 cases hit new record of 360K Wednesday
April 28, 2021, 1:22 pm
NEW DELHI – India set a new global record Wednesday for daily coronavirus cases, registering more than 360,000 infections in the past 24 hours. The country’s virus-linked death toll has now surpassed 200,000. According to daily statistics released by the Health Ministry, 360,960 new cases… Read More
UNGA president calls for aid to India in fight vs. Covid-19
April 28, 2021, 1:08 pm
UNITED NATIONS – Volkan Bozkir, president of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), on Tuesday called for international aid to India in its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, said his spokesman. Bozkir was worried about the Covid-19 situation in India, a country that has done so… Read More
Rebels seize Myanmar military post along Thai border
April 27, 2021, 6:38 pm
ANKARA – An ethnic rebel group on Tuesday morning attacked and seized a military post belonging to the Myanmar ruling junta along the border with Thailand. The separatist Karen National Liberation Army’s (KNLA) Brigade 5 attacked Myanmar military’s border post in Thaw Le Hta, near the border… Read More
82 confirmed dead in Baghdad Covid-19 hospital fire
April 25, 2021, 7:14 pm
CAIRO – Some 82 people were killed by a fire in Baghdad’s hospital, while 110 others were injured, the Baghdad Al Youm news portal reported on Sunday, citing the Iraqi Interior Ministry. "The fire at the Ibn al-Khatib hospital killed 82 people, some 110 people were injured," the statement… Read More
Myanmar unity gov’t welcomes Asean meeting consensus
April 25, 2021, 6:44 pm
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Myanmar's newly formed National Unity Government (NUG) welcomed the five-point consensus on the coup crisis during a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). "This is what the National Unity Government has been calling for," it said in a written… Read More
Asean leaders reach consensus on Myanmar coup crisis
April 25, 2021, 3:55 pm
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Stressing an end to the violence, the leaders of Association of Southeast Asian (Asean) countries reached a five-point consensus on the Myanmar coup crisis on Saturday, according to a joint statement. The statement after the regional group’s meeting in the Indonesian… Read More
India's Covid-19 tally nearing 17M
April 25, 2021, 2:16 pm
NEW DELHI – India's Covid-19 tally reached 16,960,172 on Sunday with as many as 349,691 new cases recorded in the past 24 hours. This was the fourth consecutive day when over 300,000 cases were registered in a single day. According to the figures released by the federal health ministry, as many… Read More
US FDA lifts restrictions on Johnson & Johnson vaccine use
April 24, 2021, 4:29 pm
NEW YORK – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has lifted restrictions on Johnson & Johnson's vaccine, Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock announced on Friday. The use of the vaccine was renewed following the recommendations of a panel of experts from the Centers for Disease Control and… Read More
ASEAN summit to discuss Myanmar crisis
April 23, 2021, 2:11 pm
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will meet in Jakarta on Saturday to discuss the Myanmar crisis. Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen and Indonesian… Read More
Biden to convene 40 world leaders to discuss climate
April 22, 2021, 6:23 pm
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden is set to convene world leaders from 40 countries on Thursday to discuss the growing threats posed by climate change, and announce a key climate goal for the US. Biden is expected to attempt to position the US as the global leader in the battle to prevent global… Read More
IMF official sees both potential, risk in digital currencies
April 22, 2021, 1:47 pm
WASHINGTON – Digital currencies have a potential to make financial services "much more inclusive," an International Monetary Fund (IMF) official has said, while warning that there are also risks worth watching. "There is a lot of promise in these electronic currencies," Helge Berger, the IMF's… Read More
South Korean court dismisses lawsuit against Japan
April 21, 2021, 9:25 pm
ANKARA – A South Korean court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by wartime victims against the Japanese government, local media reported. In its ruling on the case of women forced to work as sex slaves during World War II, the Seoul Central District Court cited sovereign immunity, a concept… Read More
'Covid-19 worst crisis in Asia-Pacific since WW II'
April 21, 2021, 3:00 pm
KARACHI, Pakistan – The coronavirus pandemic has created the worst crisis in Asia-Pacific since World War II, exposing structural weaknesses and fault lines, and revealing gaps in health services, social protection, and digital connectivity in the region, according to a new study. The study,… Read More
Biden: Chauvin conviction can be 'giant step forward'
April 21, 2021, 11:18 am
WASHINGTON – The conviction of ex-Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin can be a "giant step forward" in the US' struggle with systemic racism, President Joe Biden said Tuesday. Chauvin was convicted by a jury just hours earlier of murder and manslaughter for the May 2020 killing… Read More
US jury finds Chauvin guilty of all 3 charges over Floyd’s death
April 21, 2021, 8:42 am
WASHINGTON – Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter over the death of George Floyd, the judge presiding over the high-profile trial announced Tuesday, reading the jury's verdict. Right after judge Peter Cahill… Read More
UN chief calls for real action to fight climate change
April 20, 2021, 7:01 pm
UNITED NATIONS – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for specific commitments and real action to fight climate change after speaking out about the severity of the climatic disruptions that have raged the planet. "We must agree to a common direction of travel," the… Read More
WHO reports alarming hospitalization of 25 to 59-year-olds
April 20, 2021, 1:53 pm
GENEVA – New cases of Covid-19 increased for the eighth week in a row, with more than 5.2 million reported -- the most in a week so far -- and alarming hospitalizations among people aged 25 to 59 worldwide, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday. “Deaths rose… Read More
NASA's helicopter makes first flight on Mars
April 19, 2021, 9:36 pm
ANKARA – The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has conducted the first helicopter flight on planet Mars, it announced Monday. "Ingenuity has performed its first flight — the first flight of a powered aircraft on another planet!" NASA wrote on Twitter, adding data that… Read More
Covid-19 cases across globe up by over 809K Sunday
April 19, 2021, 2:05 pm
GENEVA – More than 809,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus infection were registered worldwide in the past day, with the overall number exceeding 140.32 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its daily bulletin on Sunday. As of 15:35 Moscow time on April 18, as many as… Read More
