China’s Covid cases overwhelm hospitals
Reuters :In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing-based doctor Howard Bernstein said, he has never seen anything like this.Patients are arriving at his...
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15 killed in Mexico bus crash
AFP :At least 15 people were killed in western Mexico on Friday when the bus they were traveling in flipped over and crashed, local authorities...
Former pope Benedict XVI dies aged 95
AFP :Former pope Benedict XVI has died at the age of 95, the Vatican announced Saturday, almost a decade after he became the first pontiff...
Marchers in southeast Iran denounce top leader in renewed protests
Reuters :Demonstrators shouted slogans denouncing Iran’s supreme leader in the restive southeast of the country on Friday, while a human rights group said at least...
Sirens wail in Kyiv, governor says drone attack underway
Reuters :Residents of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv were urged to head to air raid shelters early on Friday as sirens wailed across the city, a...
US, Chinese jets in close encounter over South China Sea
AFP :A Chinese fighter jet flew dangerously within 20 feet (six meters) of a much larger US air force surveillance aircraft over the South China...
Indian PM Narendra Modi’s mother dies
AP :Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother Heeraben Modi died on Friday morning at the age of 100, report Indian media.She was admitted to the...
Russia wants deeper military cooperation with China
AFP :Russian leader Vladimir Putin told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday he was keen to ramp up military cooperation and hailed the two countries’...
Covid’s true death toll still elusive, 3 years in
AFP :The true global death toll of Covid remains difficult to nail down three years after the first case was detected, though experts agree there...
Marion Biotech, cough syrup makers linked to Uzbek deaths, halts all production
Hindustan Times :Marion Biotech – the Noida-based manufacturer of a cough syrup blamed by Uzbekistan authorities for the death of 19 children – has halted...