A person is swabbed by a medical professional at a drive-through coronavirus testing clinic in the Warriewood suburb of Sydney, Australia.
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Sydney isolated from rest of Australia as COVID outbreak grows
Reuters, Sydney :Sydney was isolated from the rest of Australia on Sunday after all of the country’s states and territories imposed travel restrictions on its residents as a coronavirus cluster in the city grew...
60pc of S Sudan population facing acute hunger :UN
AFP :Roughly 60% of South Sudan’s population face severe hunger by the middle of next year, the government and UN agencies warned, calling for urgent assistance to address the growing crisis.In a new joint...
Nepal Cabinet asks for dissolution of parliament
Reuters :Nepal’s Cabinet recommended dissolving parliament in an emergency meeting on Sunday as Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli’s party said he had lost majority support.“The prime minister has lost the majority in the...
Images of futuristic Ayodhya Mosque and hospital plan released
NDTV :The trust in charge of building a mosque in Ayodhya, India after last year’s Supreme Court verdict, which also paved the way for a Ram temple at the town in Uttar Pradesh, has...
In wake of election loss, Trump’s enemies list keeps expanding
Al Jazeera :US President Donald Trump has a long history of making enemies out of people on whom he had previously heaped praise. From his longtime lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen, to former Cabinet...
Hathras gang rape: Four charged over death of 19-year-old Dalit woman
BBC :Four men in India have been charged with the rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman earlier this year in a case that sparked outrage across the country and internationally.The woman was...
Covid: Italy latest European country to order Christmas lockdown
BBC :Italy has ordered a nationwide lockdown over much of the Christmas and New Year period in an effort to combat a rise in coronavirus cases.The country will be under “red-zone” restrictions over the...
Myanmar gang-rape victim wins legal battle with military
AFP :Three rapists were jailed for 20 years with hard labour in a case that pitted a 36-year-old mother of four against the powerful military.After being gang-raped by soldiers, steely eyed Thein Nu went...
J&J enrolls about 45,000 participants for late-stage Covid-19 vaccine trial
Reuters :Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday it has enrolled about 45,000 participants for the first late-stage trial of its COVID-19 single-dose vaccine candidate and that it expects interim data by late-January.The company, however,...
737 Max: Boeing ‘inappropriately coached’ pilots in test after crashes
BBC :US Senate investigators say that Boeing officials “inappropriately coached” test pilots during efforts to recertify the company’s 737 Max aircraft.The planes were grounded in March 2019 following two deadly crashes.Investigators accused Boeing and...
Nigeria school attack: Hundreds of boys return home after kidnap ordeal
BBC :More than 300 schoolboys have been reunited with their families, a week after they were kidnapped from their school in north-west Nigeria.The boys arrived by bus in Katsina, capital of the state of...