Delta spreads ‘like wildfire’ as doctors study whether it makes patients sicker
Reuters :With a new wave of Covid-19 infections fuelled by the Delta variant striking countries worldwide, disease experts are scrambling to learn whether the latest...


Reuters :With a new wave of Covid-19 infections fuelled by the Delta variant striking countries worldwide, disease experts are scrambling to learn whether the latest...
AFP :Two states in India’s north-east have agreed to resolve their differences peacefully after their long-running border dispute erupted into deadly violence last week.Last Monday...
AFP :Thousands of anti-lockdown demonstrators defied a court-ordered protest ban on Sunday (Aug 1) and gathered in the streets of Berlin, resulting in scuffles with...
AFP :The death toll from floods in central China last month is at least 302 with dozens of people still missing, officials said on Monday,...
AFP :Two Sumatran tigers were recovering at a Jakarta zoo after being infected with coronavirus, Indonesian officials said Sunday, as they probed how the critically...
Reuters :Ismail Haniyeh has been re-elected as leader of the Palestinian group Hamas, officials said on Sunday, cementing his control of the organization which rules...
Online Desk : Australia’s Queensland state on Monday extended a COVID-19 lockdown in Brisbane, while soldiers began patrolling Sydney to enforce stay-at-home rules as Australia...
Reuters :Police in China said they have detained a 30-year-old Canadian man surnamed Wu on suspicion of committing rape, with state media identifying him as...
Reuters :New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern issued a sombre state apology on Sunday to the Pacific community for racially targeted immigration raids in the...
Reuters :US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet virtually with Southeast Asian officials every day next week, a senior state department official said on...
The New York Times :On a moonless night in the desert in the far west of South Africa, Avrill Kaffer had just finished making a...
Reuters :A Thai hospital morgue overwhelmed by COVID-19 deaths has begun storing bodies in refrigerated containers, resorting to a measure it last took in a...