2021

US: Singer and businesswoman Rihanna is worth a whopping $1.7 billion, Forbes said Wednesday, making her one of the richest woman musicians on the planet. The R&B songstress parlayed success in the singles charts into a huge…
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BANGLADESH: Bangladesh extended its strict lockdown on Tuesday and announced plans to vaccinate at least 10 million people in a week as the country battles a major Covid-19 surge. The vaccination drive from August 7 will be led…
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FRANCE: The number of people exposed to floods worldwide has surged almost a quarter over the last two decades, according to satellite-based data that shows an additional 86 million now live within flood-prone regions. Flooding…
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SWITZERLAND: The WHO on Wednesday called for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine booster shots until at least the end of September to address the drastic inequity in dose distribution between rich and poor nations. World Health…
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SWITZERLAND: Coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed 200 million on Wednesday, according to a latest tally, as the more-infectious Delta variant threatens areas with low vaccination rates and strains healthcare systems. The global…
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US: Barack Obama has scaled back plans for a big 60th birthday party this weekend, paring down a guest list of the rich and famous numbering in the hundreds due to the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus, a spokeswoman said…
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AUSTRALIA: Sydney reported a record number of new COVID-19 cases and five virus deaths Thursday, as authorities expanded the lockdown in Australia's largest city to neighbouring regions. Six weeks after Sydney's five million…
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IRAN: Iran's newly-elected President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday said establishing extensive interaction with neighboring countries constitutes one of his government's main foreign policy principles. He made the remarks in a…
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US: The daily number of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. could double in the next few weeks, potentially resulting in new mutations that could be worse than the highly contagious delta variant, Director of the US National Institute of…
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Sunquick (SQL) the joint venture company between CO-RO A/S Denmark and C. W. Mackie PLC was certified as one of the great places to work by the independent evaluators at Great Place to Work in Sri Lanka. Sunquick Lanka earned…
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