Sweden’s economy is heading for a “grim winter,” the country’s government said on Monday. “We don’t know yet how cold and grim it will be,” Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson said at a press conference here. [Read More]
Lebanon has received its first batch of cholera vaccines as part of the international effort to help curb the spread of the life-threatening disease in the country, Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad announced Monday. The [Read More]
Gas prices for German households surged 18 percent in the first six months of this year compared to the second half of 2021, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said on Monday. High prices on energy [Read More]
China’s national observatory on Monday issued a yellow alert for Typhoon Nalgae, the 22nd typhoon this year, which is expected to hit the country’s southeastern and southern coastal regions. The tropical storm will proceed westward [Read More]
At least 101 people have died in the severe tropical storm that battered the Philippines over the weekend, the government said Monday. Tropical storm Nalgae triggered flash floods and landslides in many parts of the [Read More]
Yemen’s Houthi rebel fighters launched a series of attacks on areas controlled by government forces in the southern regions during the past 24 hours, with eight killed from the two warring sides, a military official [Read More]
Turkey will continue its efforts to alleviate the global food crisis, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. Erdogan’s remarks came after Russia suspended its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative, through which Ukrainian wheat [Read More]
India’s daily COVID-19 caseload Monday fell to 1,326, officials said. According to federal health ministry data released on Monday morning, 1,326 new cases of COVID-19 were reported during the past 24 hours, taking the total [Read More]
Malaysians have been urged to take precautions including wearing face masks as fresh COVID-19 infections continue to spike in the country, an official said on Monday. Malaysia is experiencing another COVID-19 wave which has seen [Read More]
For more than a week, the rescue ship Humanity 1 has been waiting for a place of safety for 179 people rescued from distress at sea in the Central Mediterranean. According to a press release [Read More]
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