The British Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings for wind across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, while yellow snow warnings are in place for southern and western Scotland. It comes after Storm Arwen wreaked [Read More]
New Zealand reported 98 new Delta variant cases of COVID-19 in the community on Tuesday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country’s current community outbreak to 9,266. Among the new infections, 74 [Read More]
Australia’s state of Queensland will reopen to domestic hotspots next Monday, as the state nearly reaches the 80 percent vaccination milestone. From 1:00 a.m. on Dec. 13, no quarantine is required for fully vaccinated travellers [Read More]
India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 34,648,383 on Tuesday as 6,822 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data. The number of daily cases is [Read More]
The UK and Malta have agreed a new partnership to boost police cooperation which will help cut crime and bring more criminals to justice in both countries. The new agreement will see expertise and training [Read More]
The federal government of Austria was reshuffled on Monday and Karl Nehammer was sworn in as the country’s new chancellor. Nehammer, 49, was general secretary of the ruling conservative People’s Party (OVP) from January 2018 [Read More]
Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz, leader of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), presented his cabinet ministers for the country’s new government on Monday. Clinical epidemiologist and prominent expert in charge of pandemic response Karl Lauterbach will become [Read More]
A further 90 cases of the new Omicron COVID variant have been reported in Britain, taking the total to 336, British health authorities confirmed Monday. These include 64 new cases in England, 23 in Scotland [Read More]
Ahead of the so-called “summit for democracy” initiated by the United States later this week, the recent tragedy in the English Channel serves as a reminder that rich countries have much to do to safeguard [Read More]
India’s automaker Tata Motors will raise prices for its commercial vehicles by a range of 2.5 percent effective Jan. 1, 2022, the company said in its filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange on Monday. Tata [Read More]
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