International

The Australian state of Victoria - home to its second largest city, Melbourne - has begun a snap lockdown after two more local cases of the virus. The latest outbreak brings the total number of virus cases there to 18. This is…

SWITZERLAND: World Health Organisation (WHO) Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday warned the world about the ‘early stages’ of COVID-19 third wave amid Delta surge. “Unfortunately...we are now in the early stages of a…

US: Blue Origin said Thursday an 18-year-old paying customer will fly to space on board the company’s maiden crewed spaceflight on July 20, becoming the youngest ever astronaut. Oliver Daemen, who graduated from high school in…

UK: There are more than 200 symptoms of Long COVID and more than nine in 10 people suffer from the disease for more than eight months, London researchers revealed today. The findings, from an international survey led by…

US: Former US President George W. Bush on Wednesday criticised the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan and said civilians were being left to be “slaughtered” by the Taliban. “Afghan women and girls are going to suffer…

RUSSIA: The Kremlin said Thursday that Moscow had no immediate plans to allow foreign coronavirus vaccines into Russia, despite the country’s sluggish vaccination rates and rising death count in a third wave of the pandemic.…

AUSTRALIA: Melbourne’s streets returned to the eerie quiet of lockdown for the fifth time Friday, as Australia battled to contain an outbreak of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in its two largest cities. More than 12 million…

GERMANY: At least 60 people have died and as many as 1,300 remain unaccounted as a result of freak flooding in western Germany and Belgium where some areas saw the highest rainfall in more than 100 years. Two firefighters sent to…

Politicians and medical experts in Australia are trading blame for a slow vaccine rollout as the country struggles to contain a coronavirus outbreak in Sydney, its biggest city. Only about 9.5 percent of Australia’s population of…

A shipment of 500,000 Covid vaccine doses from the United States arrived in Haiti on Wednesday, the first shots to reach a nation thrown into turmoil after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. The donation is part of the…