Brazil begins vaccinating young children despite Bolsonaro objection
BSS :Brazil began vaccinating children aged five to 11 against Covid-19 on Friday after the move was approved, despite objections from President Jair Bolsonaro.Davi Seremramiwe...
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India logs 2,68,833 Covid cases, 402 deaths in a day
BSS :India registered 2,68,833 new Covid infections in a day taking the tally to 3,68,50,962, which includes 6,041 Omicron variant cases, according to the Union...
North Korea fired railway-borne missiles in third test this year
BSS :North Korea fired two railway-borne tactical guided missiles, state media reported on Saturday, the country’s third weapons test this month despite a volley of...
Ukraine proposes three-way summit with Biden and Putin
BSS :Ukraine has proposed three-way talks with US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin amid fears of invasion, an aide to Ukraine’s Volodymyr...
One dead, 30 rescued in new Channel migrant boat accident
BSS :One man died and about 30 other people were rescued in the Channel after their boat ran into difficulties while trying to cross from...
New York apartment sells for $190 million
BSS :In one of the priciest sales in New York real estate history, a four-bedroom penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park was purchased for $190 million,...
Japan team carries out world-first spinal cord stem cell trial
BSS :A Japanese university said on Friday that it had successfully transplanted stem cells into a patient with a spinal cord injury, in the first...
Biden ‘disappointed’ in court ruling on Covid vaccines mandate
BSS :US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he was “disappointed” in the Supreme Court decision striking down his mandate for medium and large...
108 civilians killed this year in Tigray air strikes: UN
BSS :At least 108 civilians have been killed so far in January in a series of air strikes in the war-torn northern Tigray region of...
6.6-magnitude quake strikes off Java island
BSS :A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia’s Java Island on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said.USGS said that the quake hit at a depth...
North Korea fires ballistic missiles in third test of the year
BSS :North Korea fired two ballistic missiles in Friday, the South Korea and Japan said, in what would be its third weapons test this month,...