SHANGHAI: China on Thursday (Jul 2) reported three new coronavirus cases in the mainland for Jul 1, compared with three cases a day earlier, the health authority said. Two of the new infections were imported cases, the National Health Commission said in a statement, while the capital city of Beijing […]
SYDNEY: Australian police set up suburban checkpoints in new coronavirus hotspots in Melbourne on Thursday (Jul 2), as authorities struggled to contain new outbreaks in the country’s second-largest city, even as travel restrictions eased elsewhere. Images published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Thursday showed police flagging down cars in […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s health minister, David Clark, resigned on Thursday (Jul 2) following recent slip-ups in the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and personal mistakes. “It has become increasingly clear to me that my continuation in the role is distracting for the government’s overall response to COVID-19 and the […]
The fires are expected to be at their worst in August, like last year, when this photo of a burnt area was taken in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, in the Amazon basin. RIO DE JANEIRO: Amazon forest fires in Brazil increased by 19.5 per cent in June compared to […]
Remdesivir is an experimental medication produced by the US laboratory Gilead Sciences WASHINGTON: Britain and Germany said Wednesday (Jul 2) they had sufficient stocks of remdesivir, the first drug to be shown to be relatively effective in treating COVID-19, and of which the United States has bought almost all […]
SYDNEY: Archaeologists have for the first time found Aboriginal artefacts on the seabed off Australia, opening a door to the discovery of ancient settlements flooded since the last ice age, they reported on Thursday (Jul 2). Hundreds of ancient stone tools made by Australia’s Indigenous people at least 7,000 years […]
LONDON: Jurgen Klopp expects Liverpool to face a stern challenge for their Premier League title from Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea next season. Klopp’s side were crowned English champions last week after storming to their first league title in 30 years They clinched the trophy with seven games to […]
Mystery surrounds the “completely unprecedented” deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana over the last two months. Dr Niall McCann said colleagues in the southern African country had spotted more than 350 elephant carcasses in the Okavango Delta since the start of May. No one knows why the animals are […]
WASHINGTON: United States customs officials said on Wednesday (Jul 1) they had seized a shipment of products made from human hair believed to be made by Muslims in labour camps in the country’s western Xinjiang province. They were part of an US$800,000, 11-tonne shipment from Lop County Meixin Hair Product. […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday (Jul 1) temporarily blocked the hugely popular online game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) after receiving complaints it was addictive and following media reports linking the brutal, multiplayer shoot ’em up to suicide. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said it had received “numerous” complaints from people saying the game […]