Thousands of Afghan families flee fighting in former Taliban bastion
AFP :More than 22,000 Afghan families have fled from their homes to escape fighting in the former Taliban bastion of Kandahar, officials said Sunday, as...
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NASA selects SpaceX for Jupiter mission
AFP :NASA on Friday said it had selected SpaceX to launch a planned voyage to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, a huge win for Elon Musk’s...
Bali hit by ‘oxygen crisis’ as Indonesia’s Covid struggles rise
Al Jazeera :The Indonesian island of Bali is running out of oxygen for its COVID-19 patients as infections surge, the chief of its health agency...
1.5 m children lost parents to pandemic
Reuters :The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for...
71% of Lebanon’s population risks losing access to safe water
Reuters :The United Nations warned on Friday that more than four million people in Lebanon, including one million refugees risked losing access to safe water...
138 dead in Maharashtra rain fury, 90,000 moved to safety
NDTV :At least 138 people have died in rain-related incidents, including multiple landslides, in Maharashtra. The deaths include 36 who died in a landslide in...
Imam in France fired over verses recited during Eid prayers
Anadolu Agency :An imam of a mosque in France’s Loire region was fired after verses and hadiths he recited during his Eid al-Adha prayer sermon...
Philippines evacuates thousands as monsoon rains flood cities
Reuters :Philippine authorities moved thousands of residents of the capital, Manila, out of their low-lying communities on Saturday as heavy monsoon rain, compounded by a...
Spacing Pfizer Covid shots boosts antibody levels : Study
Reuters :A longer gap between the two doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine leads to higher overall antibody levels than a shorter gap, a British study...
Fresh floods in central China as typhoon heads towards east coast
Al Jazeera :Villagers were evacuated over makeshift bridges on Friday as floods submerged swaths of central China, and a clean-up began in Zhengzhou where at...
Death toll from two prison riots in Ecuador climbs to 22
Al Jazeera :At least 22 inmates have been killed and several police injured during riots at two of Ecuador’s largest jails, the Andean nation said,...
Colombia says attack on president was planned from Venezuela
AFP :The Colombian government claimed Thursday that a recent attack on President Ivan Duque’s helicopter was planned from neighboring Venezuela by dissident FARC guerillas and...