The Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday that it views the riots in Kazakhstan as an attempt, stoked by the outside, to undermine the country’s security and integrity with trained armed formations. In a statement published [Read More]
Indonesia will ban entry for foreign travelers from France starting Friday following rising Omicron variant infections in the European country, according to the latest regulation on travel restriction released Thursday by the Indonesian COVID-19 Task [Read More]
Indian officials on Thursday said that 125 passengers on board a chartered flight from Italy to the northern city of Amritsar have tested positive for COVID-19. The passengers were tested upon arrival at the airport [Read More]
Cuba on Wednesday tightened COVID-19 border control measures in a bid to stem the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The surge in cases follows the resumption of international flights in mid-November and [Read More]
Oil prices climbed on Wednesday as investors sifted through major oil producers’ latest decision on output and a U.S. fuel inventory report. The West Texas Intermediate for February delivery added 86 cents, or 1.1 percent, [Read More]
Lawrence Brooks, the oldest World War II veteran in the United States, died on Wednesday morning at the age of 112, according to The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, the largest city in U.S. [Read More]
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 jolted southern Pacific Ocean at 23:24:39 GMT on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at [Read More]
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has successfully test-fired a hypersonic missile, the official Korean Central News Agency reported on Thursday. The missile, launched by the Academy of Defence Science on Wednesday, manoeuvred 120 [Read More]
The Kenyan government Wednesday imposed a 30-day dusk-to-dawn curfew on areas affected by insecurity in Kenya’s coastal Lamu County. The Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government said the curfew follows the recent surge [Read More]
Flurona, a newly-coined term to describe a double infection with both COVID-19 and influenza, has aroused wide public concern over the potential symptoms and impact the two infections might jointly cause. The term came in [Read More]
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