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A Korean palm oil giant has been rejected from the world’s leading green certification body in the wake of a BBC investigation. The BBC had earlier found evidence that the Korindo group had been buying up swathes of Asia’s largest…

SOUTH AFRICA: Stores and warehouses in South Africa were hit by looters Tuesday for a fifth day running despite the troops President Cyril Ramaphosa deployed to try to quell unrest that has claimed 72 lives. As pillaging erupted…

IRAQ: Grief and anger gripped the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on Tuesday after fire swept through a Covid isolation unit killing 92 people and wounding dozens more. The devastating Monday evening blaze in the city's Al-Hussein…

US: The COVID-19 curve in the United States is rising again after months of decline, with the number of new cases per day doubling over the past three weeks. This is driven by the fast-spreading delta variant, lagging vaccination rates…

At least 52 people have been killed in a fire at the coronavirus isolation ward of a hospital in Iraq, the second such deadly blaze in a COVID-19 unit in three months. The fire broke out at the Al-Hussein hospital in the southern…

CHINA, NORTH KOREA: General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Xi Jinping, also Chinese president and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, exchanged congratulatory messages on Sunday with Kim Jong…

RUSSIA: A day after scientists announced that mRNA vaccines are effective against the Delta variant of Covid-19, a single dose variant of Russia's Sputnik-V vaccine has shown 94 per cent efficacy among those recovered Covid-19…

SWITZERLAND: Two Chinese vaccine makers, Sinovac and Sinopharm, have agreed to immediately begin making more than 100 million Covid vaccine doses available to the Covax distribution facility, Gavi said Monday. "The agreements,…

INDIA: A total of 68 people died in separate lightning incidents across Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan on Sunday. While the death toll due to heavy lightning in Uttar Pradesh mounted to 41 on Monday, seven people…

US: British billionaire Richard Branson flew into space Sunday aboard a Virgin Galactic vessel, a voyage he described as the “experience of a lifetime” -- and one he hopes will usher in an era of lucrative space tourism. The…