MUMBAI: A grid failure caused a widespread power outage in India’s financial capital Mumbai and surrounding areas today, authorities said, a rare occurrence that disrupted train services in the city of 20 million. “Power cut across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region due to grid failure,” the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport […]
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SYDNEY: The premier of Australia’s most populous state told a corruption inquiry today that she had had a secret “close personal relationship” with a politician under investigation for monetising his position through business dealings with China. New South Wales (NSW) Premier Gladys Berejiklian revealed the relationship to the NSW Independent […]
SHANGHAI: China’s Qingdao city said today it will conduct Covid-19 tests for the entire population of more than 9 million people over five days after new cases appeared linked to a hospital treating imported infections. The city reported six new Covid-19 cases and six asymptomatic cases as of late yesterday. […]
MONTREAL: One of the two Canadians that Ottawa says are held arbitrarily in China was “relieved” to get outside news via a virtual diplomatic visit and remains determined to come home, his wife said yesterday. Canada announced Saturday its first contact since January with Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who […]
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s count of COVID-19 deaths surpassed 150,000 on Saturday (Oct 10) night, despite signs the pandemic is slowly retreating in Latin America’s largest nation. The Brazilian Health Ministry reported that the death toll now stands at 150,198. The figure is the world’s second-highest behind the United States, […]
MELBOURNE: Australia is in talks with Japan, South Korea, Singapore and South Pacific nations on reopening travel as coronavirus infections ease, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday (Oct 11). Australia shut its borders in March to slow the spread of the coronavirus and is looking to revive tourism to […]
BEIJING: China reported 21 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus on Saturday (Oct 10), up from 15 a day earlier, the country’s national health authority said on Sunday. All the new cases were imported infections involving travellers from overseas, the National Health Commission said in a statement. The number […]
MEXICO CITY: The Mexican government has formally asked Pope Francis for the temporary return of several ancient indigenous manuscripts held in the Vatican library ahead of next year’s 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The request to allow the texts to be exhibited in Mexico was made in […]
DENVER: A man was fatally shot on Saturday (Oct 10) during duelling protests by left-wing and right-wing groups in downtown Denver, and police arrested a suspect they said was working as a private security guard. An NBC News affiliate, KUSA-TV, said on its website that the man arrested for the […]
OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and US President Donald Trump discussed on the phone the issue of two Canadian citizens detained in China since late 2018 and to whom China granted rare consular access on Friday (Oct 9) and Saturday, the Canadian government said. Dominic Barton, Canada’s Ambassador […]