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New Covid Strain WHO classifies it as ‘variant of :concern’
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday designated a new Covid-19 variant detected in South Africa with a large number of mutations as being “of concern,” the fifth variant to be given the designation.
26 November 2021, 18:00 PM
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to India next month, in only his second trip abroad since the Covid-19 pandemic began two years ago, the Kremlin said yesterday.
26 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Cuba inaugurates center to preserve Castro writings
Cuba on Thursday inaugurated a center to preserve the writings of its revolutionary hero Fidel Castro as part of commemorations marking the fifth anniversary of his death.
26 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Kyrgyzstan detains 15 in ‘coup plot’ before vote
Security services in Kyrgyzstan said yesterday they had detained 15 “active members” of a coup plot involving lawmakers and former officials ahead of a parliamentary vote at the weekend.
26 November 2021, 18:00 PM
French army convoy halted by Burkina protests on the move
A French military convoy heading to Mali has resumed its trek through Burkina Faso after being delayed for more than a week by protests, the French army said yesterday.
26 November 2021, 18:00 PM
50, including rescuers, killed in Siberia coal mine accident
A gas leak in a Siberian coal mine killed at least 52 people on Thursday, Russian news agencies said, including six rescuers who were sent down to try to bring out dozens of men in what was one of Russia’s worst mining disasters in more than 10 years.
26 November 2021, 06:29 AM
Eleven dead, dozens missing in Siberia coal mine accident
At least 11 people are dead and dozens still missing underground after an accident at a Russian coal mine in Siberia yesterday, officials said.
25 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Afghan Hazara elders pledge support for Taliban rulers
More than 1,000 Afghan Shia Hazaras yesterday pledged their support to the country’s new Taliban rulers, insisting that the “dark period” of
25 November 2021, 18:00 PM
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1998 - Japan expressed deep remorse for its actions in China during World War Two in a joint declaration during a visit by Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
25 November 2021, 18:00 PM
12 of 17 Congress MLAs join TMC in Meghalaya
Former Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, along with 11 of the 17 Congress MLAs in the state, joined the Trinamool Congress in a huge
25 November 2021, 18:00 PM
India court commutes death sentences in journo rape case
Mumbai’s top court yesterday commuted the death sentences of three men convicted in a rape case that heightened public outrage over
25 November 2021, 18:00 PM
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1839 - Cyclone slams south eastern India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying city of Coringa. An estimated 300,000 died.
24 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Child marriage rises amid poverty
Jobless and engulfed in debt, Afghan brick kiln worker Fazal said the country’s imploding economy had left him with a stark choice - marry off his young daughters, or risk the family starving to death.
24 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Mexican women jailed for killing rape perpetrators fight for right to self-defence
Imprisoned for killing the man she says raped her, Roxana Ruiz is fighting to prove her innocence in a case taken up by activists campaigning for the right to self-defence.
24 November 2021, 12:08 PM
Spacecraft launched to divert asteroid from colliding with earth
A spacecraft that must ultimately crash to succeed was launched late on Tuesday from California on a NASA mission to demonstrate the world's first planetary defense system, designed to deflect an asteroid from a potential doomsday collision with Earth.
24 November 2021, 08:37 AM
US rehearsed nuclear strike against Russia recently: Moscow
Russia’s defense minister on Tuesday accused US bombers of rehearsing a nuclear strike on Russia from two different directions earlier this month and complained that the planes had come within 20 km (12.4 miles) of the Russian border.
24 November 2021, 05:27 AM
JPMorgan CEO jokes bank will outlast China's Communist Party
JPMorgan Chase and Co's Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon joked that his bank would last longer than China's Communist Party while speaking in Boston Tuesday.
24 November 2021, 04:20 AM
Morocco says 147 African, Asian migrants rescued at sea
Morocco’s coast guard rescued more than 140 African and Asian migrants in difficulty aboard makeshift boats early Monday, a military source said.
23 November 2021, 18:00 PM
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1859 - English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of Species” radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology.
23 November 2021, 18:00 PM
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Forty-six people, including a dozen minors, were killed after a bus caught fire south of the Bulgarian capital early yesterday, officials said, in the country’s deadliest road accident in years.
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