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UN: India will keep the spotlight on terrorism during its presidency of the Security Council and make a renewed push for international efforts to combat the scourge in all its manifestations, according to India’s Permanent…

UK: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that he wanted to get the travel industry moving again with a simple user-friendly system of rules to allow for trips abroad. "We need to get people, get the travel industry…

US: The United States has distributed more than 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses overseas, President Joe Biden said Tuesday as he touted his record on countering the Delta variant cutting a deadly swath across the planet. The…

FRANCE: Half of the European Union’s (EU) population has now been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Agency reports showed yesterday. The highly contagious Delta variant has been driving surging infections across the world, even…

CHINA: China has imposed massive travel restrictions, including temporary closure of airports and travel alerts for citizens to other places across the country, to contain the spread of the Delta variant. All 31 provincial-level…

UK: Vaccines targeting the highly transmissible Delta variant may now be needed, given its ability to infect people with fading immunity and potentially increased severity, researchers leading a large English study of COVID shots said.…

CHINA: China has reported a cluster of COVID-19 infections in the past month, with 328 new locally transmitted confirmed cases registered in July, a number almost equal to the country's total number in the previous five months.…

AFGHANISTAN: Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has said the violence-hit country's situation will see a change within the next six months as he emphasised that the security of cities is his government's priority. Addressing a…

JAPAN:Japan has carried out a threat to publicly shame people not complying with coronavirus border control measures, releasing the names of three people who broke quarantine rules after returning from overseas. The Health…

FRANCE: With France facing a fourth COVID wave, the Government is making it harder for unvaccinated people to access certain public places. Over the weekend, protesters once again came out in force to show their opposition. A…