MUMBAI: India recorded more than 60,000 cases of Covid-19 for the eighth day in a row today, as total cases crossed 3.2 million, data from the federal health ministry showed. The world’s second-most populous country is third behind the United States and Brazil in terms of total caseload, and has […]
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China’s Defence Ministry said the U-2 flew without permission over a no-fly zone in the northern military region where live fire drills were taking place, “seriously interfering in normal exercise activities”. China has lodged “stern representations” with the United States, accusing it of sending a US U-2 reconnaissance plane into […]
HONG KONG: A Hong Kong court again denied bail today to the first person charged with inciting separatism and terrorism under a new national security law in the Chinese-ruled city. Tong Ying-kit, 23, had carried a sign reading “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times,” and drove his motorbike into […]
JAKARTA: Indonesia reported 2,037 new coronavirus cases today, bringing its total tally to 153,535, data from the country’s Covid-19 taskforce showed. The Southeast Asian country also added 86 new deaths today, taking the total number to 6,680, the highest Covid-19 death toll in Southeast Asia.
LONDON: The United Kingdom recorded 853 new cases of Covid-19 in the latest daily statistics published today, down from 1,041 yesterday, government figures showed. Four people died after testing positive for the coronavirus within the previous 28 days, compared with six deaths announced yesterday.
JOLO: At least 14 people were killed and 75 wounded—including members of the security forces and civilians—in twin bombings today involving a suicide attacker on a southern Philippine island that is a stronghold of Islamist militants, officials said. The apparently coordinated attacks happened in Jolo in Muslim-majority Sulu, where government-backed […]
SAN FRANCISCO: More dry-lightning storms hit California yesterday after sparking 625 fires last week as authorities warned the state was trapped in a “megafire era” triggered by climate change. The worst of the wildfires, including the second and third largest in California history, burned in the San Francisco Bay Area […]
SYDNEY: The Australian state at the centre of the country’s coronavirus second wave today reported 148 new Covid-19 cases, more than the previous day but well down from peak levels, and eight deaths. The majority of new cases reported in recent weeks were in the city of Melbourne, Australia’s second […]
TOKYO: Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, visited a Tokyo hospital today, as concerns grew over his ability to continue in his post, because of health issues and fatigue from handling the coronavirus crisis. If Abe is incapacitated, Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso, who doubles as finance minister, would take […]
MANILA: Twin blasts that killed 15 people in the volatile southern Philippines could both have been suicide bombings, the military said today, representing an escalation of violence that the army chief said may require martial law to be re-imposed. Yesterday’s explosions on the southwest island of Jolo killed a mix […]