MUMBAI: At least seven people died after a massive fire broke out at a hotel that was being used as a COVID-19 facility in India’s southern Andhra Pradesh state early on Sunday, police said. “Several people who were trapped and injured have been rescued and moved to a government hopsital. […]
Day: August 8, 2020
NAGASAKI: The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday (Aug 9) commemorates the 75th anniversary of its destruction by a US atomic bomb, with the coronavirus pandemic forcing a scaling back of ceremonies. Nagasaki was flattened in an atomic inferno three days after Hiroshima – twin nuclear attacks that rang in […]
TAIPEI: A senior member of US President Donald Trump’s administration will land in Taiwan on Sunday (Aug 9) for Washington’s highest level visit since switching diplomatic recognition to China in 1979, a move Beijing has condemned. During the three-day trip Health Secretary Alex Azar will meet President Tsai Ing-wen, an […]
MELBOURNE: Australia’s second-most populous state, Victoria, reported its deadliest day of the COVID-19 outbreak on Sunday (Aug 9), with 17 people dying in the past 24 hours, although new infections showed signs of easing. Victoria, at the centre of a second wave of infections in Australia, reported 394 cases of […]
The protesters said their politicians should resign and be punished for negligence they say led to Tuesday’s blast, the biggest ever to hit Beirut, that killed 158 people and injured more than 6,000. Lebanese protesters stormed government ministries in Beirut and trashed the offices of the Association of Lebanese Banks […]
The Senior Superintendent of Police South Sheeraz Nazeer said that the suspect confessed to “killing his sister for honour”. A man shot his sister in the head for ‘honour’ in Karachi’s Clifton area on Saturday, said the police. According to Dawn, the accused identified as Hasamin Qamar who shot his […]
Negotiations broke down this week between the White House and top Democrats in Congress over how best to help Americans cope with the heavy human and economic toll of the crisis. President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Saturday partly restoring enhanced unemployment payments to the tens of millions of […]
A train carrying goods arrived in the “totally blocked” city of Kaesong on Friday, the official KCNA news agency reported. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the distribution of aid to the border city of Kaesong after the area was locked down last month to fight the coronavirus, […]
MANILA: The Philippines will soon be sending a chartered flight to Lebanon to bring back Filipinos impacted by a massive explosion at the port of Beirut as early as next week, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Saturday. “The DFA is paying P15,000,000 ($305,643) from its funds for […]
WASHINGTON: The United States set a record for coronavirus cases on Saturday (Aug 8), with more than 5 million people now infected, according to a Reuters tally, as the country’s top infectious diseases official offered hope earlier this week that an effective vaccine might be available by year-end. With one […]