2021

AUSTRALIA: Authorities in Australia’s New South Wales state say they will ease pandemic restrictions for vaccinated adults next month even as they are reporting a record 1,029 coronavirus infections and three deaths from COVID-19.…
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NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand on Friday extended a national lockdown sparked by a Delta virus outbreak into next week but warned restrictions would last longer in the infection epicentre of Auckland. The Delta cluster emerged in…
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UK: COVID-19 symptoms like fatigue and shortness of breath still trouble many patients a year after their hospitalisation for the coronavirus disease, according to a new Chinese study. The study published in the British medical journal…
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US: The United States is seeing a record increase in the number of patients hospitalised for COVID-19 in recent weeks, but the worst-affected state seems to be Florida, where more people are being admitted to the hospital and…
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AFGHANISTAN: Even for a city as used to violent death as Kabul, the scenes after the blasts tore through crowds thronging outside the airport in hope of evacuation were apocalyptic. For one man, a former employee of an…
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US, AFGHANISTAN: The US forces helping to evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule braced for more attacks after an Islamic State suicide bomber killed scores of civilians and 13 US soldiers outside the gates of Kabul airport.…
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AFGHANISTAN: At least 250,000 Afghans who may be eligible for expedited American visas remain in Afghanistan, far too many for American forces to rescue before their deadline to leave next week, new estimates suggest. Even if…
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AFGHANISTAN: A Taliban official said on Friday that at least 28 Taliban members were among the people killed in explosions overnight outside the airport in Kabul. “We have lost more people than the Americans,” the official, who…
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US, AFGHANISTAN: Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul’s airport on Thursday, transforming a scene of desperation into one of horror in the waning days of an airlift for those fleeing the Taliban…
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US: Former US President Donald Trump has slammed his successor Joe Biden on his Afghan policy and expressed concerns that thousands of terrorists might have been flown out of Afghanistan as part of the evacuation process. Biden…
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