Tehran: Iran received 250,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine on Sunday that have been donated by the government of China. “This act and those similar to it by the government and nation of China are admirable and will of course remain in the historical memory of the Iranian nation,” Kianoush Jahanpour, spokesman of the Food […]
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Saturday that the country’s biggest city; Auckland; will go into a seven-day lockdown from early morning on Sunday after a new local case of the coronavirus of unknown origin emerged. This comes two weeks after Auckland’s nearly 2 million residents were plunged into a snap three-day lockdown […]
Haitian authorities announced Friday that more than 400 inmates escaped and 25 people died in a prison breakout, making it the country’s largest and deadliest one in a decade, with the prison director and a powerful gang leader among those killed. The breakout at Croix-des-Bouquets prison on the outskirts of the capital Port-au-Prince on Thursday […]
India’s conglomerate Reliance Industries has partnered with Facebook Inc, Google, and fintech player Infibeam to set up a national digital payments network, local newspaper reported on Saturday, citing unnamed sources Last year, India’s central bank invited companies to forge new umbrella entities (NUEs) to create a payments network; that would rival the system operated by […]
Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped 317 school girls in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara, police said in a statement on Friday, the second such kidnapping in little over a week. Earlier, Sulaiman Tanau Anka, information commissioner for Zamfara state, told the local news agency that “unknown gunmen … took the girls away” in a midnight […]
PM Imran Khan visit to Sri Lanka: The Sri Lankan government on Thursday reversed an order to cremated the bodies of those who died by the corona virus; And the last rites of burial and cremation could now be performed both ways. The change in the law by the Sri Lankan government comes just hours […]
A saleswoman was allegedly gang-raped by three men in Hapur when she was returning from work in Ghaziabad to her residence in neighboring Gautam Buddha Nagar late on Wednesday, police said. The Hapur police have registered an FIR against three unidentified men under Section 376D of the IPC. As per reports, the woman had initially […]
The United Kingdom’s highest court has ruled Shamima Begum, a woman who was stripped of her citizenship after fleeing to Syria to join ISIL (ISIS), should not be allowed to return to the country to challenge the decision, because she poses a security risk. Begum left London in 2015 when she was 15 and traveled […]
TEGUCIGALPA. A nurse, who contracted covid-19 in 2020, and an internist, the first two Hondurans to be vaccinated against the disease this past Thursday. The vaccinations took place a few hours after 5,000 doses sent by Israel arrived in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Vaccinated nurse suffers from Diabetes and Hypertension The first vaccinated nurse said that in […]
A pilot on a Phoenix-bound American Airlines flight radioed that an unidentified object flew over the plane in New Mexico on Sunday. At approximately 1:19 p.m. CST, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 2292 from Cincinnati reported, “Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us,” […]
