Zambia recorded eight more Omicron COVID-19 cases this week, bringing the cases of the new variant to 11, the country’s health ministry said Saturday. The health ministry said the new cases were all recorded in [Read More]
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi said on Saturday that the withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition combat forces from Iraq confirms the ability of the Iraqi forces to maintain security and stability in the country. “In a [Read More]
Chile reported 1,375 new cases and eight more deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday, for a total of 1,781,227 infections and 38,646 fatalities. The Ministry of Health reported that cases decreased 22 percent in the past [Read More]
New Zealand reported 104 new cases of COVID-19, the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Sunday. Of the new cases, 103 were community cases across New Zealand, one was an imported case, said [Read More]
Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court (STF) determined on Saturday that all foreigners entering the country should present a certificate verifying that they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The decision was made at the request of [Read More]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson took part in a Christmas quiz sitting between two colleagues in No 10 last year – while indoor household mixing was banned in London. The Sunday Mirror, a popular weekly [Read More]
India’s capital New Delhi on Saturday recorded the second case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 that came from Zimbabwe, confirmed Delhi’s health department. According to the patient’s travel history, he had traveled to South [Read More]
A 5.6-magnitude earthquake jolted Indonesia’s eastern Maluku province on Saturday night, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said. The quake jolted at 22:29 Jakarta time (1529 GMT), with the epicenter at 163 km northeast of [Read More]
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 on Sunday struck Japan’s eastern Ibaraki Prefecture, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The temblor occurred at around 12:31 p.m. local time (0331 GMT), with its epicenter [Read More]
At least 84 people are likely to have died after dozens of tornadoes swept through several U.S. states overnight, officials said. Tornadoes hit and destroyed a candle factory in Mayfield, Kentucky, when there were about [Read More]
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