International

BBC Online :Thousands of tourists and residents have been evacuated from towns north of the Greek capital, Athens, as wildfires spread across the country.Strong winds and high temperatures are making it difficult to control...

AFP :Unvaccinated people are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with Covid-19 as the fully vaccinated, a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.The agency said the...

AFP :Half of the US population is now fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the White House said on Friday, as inoculations rise in response to the surging Delta variant of the coronavirus.“Fifty percent of Americans...

AP :A man with a knife attacked 10 passengers on a commuter train in Tokyo on Friday and was arrested by police after fleeing, fire department officials and news reports said.Tokyo metropolitan police said...

AFP :Russia has formally banned organisations established by jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny as the opposition says the authorities are trying to stifle dissent ahead of parliamentary elections. In June, Russia declared Navalny’s organisations extremist...

Al Jazeera :The Taliban has captured Sheberghan city in Jawzjan, the second Afghan provincial capital to fall to the armed group in less than 24 hours, the city’s deputy governor said.Qader Malia, the deputy...

AFP :NASA’s Perseverance drilled into the surface of Mars but failed in its initial attempt to collect rock samples that would be picked up by future missions for analysis by scientists on Earth. The...

AFP :Japan on Friday marked 76 years since the world’s first atomic bomb attack, with low-key ceremonies and disappointment over a refusal by Olympics organizers to hold a minute’s silence.Survivors, relatives, and a handful...