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Haiti requests US, UN forces after president's assassination
Haiti has requested US and UN security forces to help it protect key infrastructure like the airport and ports after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise by foreign mercenaries, a government minister said on Friday.
10 July 2021, 02:18 AM
Pfizer pushes for 3rd shot to boost efficacy
Pfizer and BioNTech said they would seek authorisation for a third dose of their Covid-19 vaccine to boost its efficacy as the Delta variant drove devastating outbreaks in Asia, including in Thailand where fresh curbs were announced yesterday.
9 July 2021, 18:00 PM
World hunger rose steeply in 2020
World hunger rose steeply in 2020, with six times more people living in “famine-like conditions” than in 2019, rights group Oxfam said yesterday.
9 July 2021, 18:00 PM
France to start closing military bases in Mali by year-end: Macron
President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday France would start closing its bases in northern Mali before the end of the year, part of a drawdown of French troops fighting Islamist extremists in the Sahel region.
9 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Italy allows rescue ship with 572 migrants to dock
Italy on Thursday authorised the Ocean Viking migrant rescue ship to dock in Sicily after the group urged EU members to allow 572 people picked up in the Mediterranean Sea over three days to be brought ashore.
9 July 2021, 18:00 PM
CoronaVac jab less effective against Gamma variant: study
The Chinese CoronaVac jab, a key tool in Brazil’s fight against Covid-19, is less effective against the Gamma variant first detected in the virus-ravaged South American country, a study said yesterday.
9 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Freed Palestinian prisoner claims ‘victory’ after hunger strike
A Palestinian on hunger strike for more than two months while in Israeli detention claimed “victory” yesterday after his release and transfer to a hospital in the occupied West Bank.
9 July 2021, 18:00 PM
UNSC extends cross-border aid operation for Syria
The UN Security Council yesterday unanimously approved an extension of activity at the only border crossing through which humanitarian aid reaches a rebel-held part of Syria.
9 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Vietnam jails former radio journalist
Vietnam yesterday jailed a former radio journalist on an anti-state charge, state media said, after several other reporters were taken into custody in recent weeks.
9 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Tokyo Olympics venues will have no spectators
The Tokyo Olympics will take place without spectators, organisers said yesterday, as a resurgent pandemic forced Japan to declare a coronavirus state of emergency for the capital that will run throughout the event.
8 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Cops kill 4 ‘mercenaries’
Haitian police killed four “mercenaries” they said were behind the assassination of President Jovenel Moise Wednesday and took two more into custody, as the impoverished and crisis-hit Caribbean nation was pitched into uncertainty.
8 July 2021, 18:00 PM
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1900 - Commonwealth of Australia founded.
8 July 2021, 18:00 PM
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8 July 2021, 18:00 PM
President of Haiti killed by gunmen at residence
Haiti President Jovenel Moise was assassinated and his wife wounded early yesterday in a gun attack at their private residence, tipping the impoverished and crisis-hit Caribbean nation into a renewed state of political uncertainty.
7 July 2021, 18:00 PM
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1934 - Marie Curie, Polish-French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, died.
3 July 2021, 18:00 PM
This day in history
1904 - Theodor Herzl, Hungarian-born Zionist leader, died. In 1897 he became first president of the World Zionist Organisation
2 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Australia to halve arrivals from overseas, offers Covid-19 exit roadmap
Australia will halve the number of arrivals from overseas as its coronavirus hotel quarantine system creaks under pressure from outbreaks of the highly transmissible Delta variant, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday.
2 July 2021, 06:07 AM
China’s rise ‘irreversible’
President Xi Jinping hailed China's "irreversible" course from colonial humiliation to great-power status at the centenary celebrations for the Chinese Communist Party yesterday, in a speech reaching deep into history to remind patriots at home and rivals abroad of his nation's -- and his own -- ascendancy.
1 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Court overturns Bill Cosby sexual assault conviction, orders release
Pennsylvania’s highest court on Wednesday overturned Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and ordered that he be released from prison immediately.
30 June 2021, 17:36 PM
Dozens dead as heat wave shatters records in Canada, United States
Scores of deaths in Canada's Vancouver area are likely linked to a grueling heat wave, authorities said Tuesday, as the country recorded its highest ever temperature amid scorching conditions that extended to the US Pacific Northwest.
30 June 2021, 05:33 AM