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Semeru volcano in Indonesia’s East Java province erupted on Saturday, leaving one killed, two missing and 40 others injured, a local official told a joint virtual press conference. The disaster also damaged scores of houses [Read More]

India on Saturday reported its third case of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, local media reports said. The case was detected in the Jamnagar district of the western state of Gujarat. “A man who returned from [Read More]

The United Nations (UN) Security Council on Friday renewed for an additional three months its authorization for states and regional organizations cooperating with Somalia to use all necessary means to fight piracy off the coast [Read More]

The second phase of the 42nd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema kicked off in the Cuban capital of Havana on Friday, after being postponed in March 2021 due to surging coronavirus infections. Without [Read More]

Afghan security forces have discovered and seized a variety of weapons from eastern Panjshir province, the state-run news agency Bakhtar reported Saturday. “Security forces of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan during several military operations have [Read More]

The United Nations (UN) Security Council on Friday renewed for an additional three months its authorization for states and regional organizations cooperating with Somalia to use all necessary means to fight piracy off the coast [Read More]

U.S. COVID-19 vaccination reached the highest single-day total in over six months on Thursday, with at least six states having discovered cases of the Omicron variant, which had been labeled as a “variant of concern” [Read More]

India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 34,624,360 on Saturday, even as 8,603 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the health ministry’s latest data. Besides, as many as 415 deaths [Read More]

New Zealand reported 100 new cases of COVID-19, the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Saturday. Of the 100 new cases of COVID-19 reported, 98 were community cases across New Zealand and two [Read More]

Malaysia reported another 5,551 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Friday, bringing the national total to 2,649,578, according to the health ministry. Some 23 of the new cases are imported, with 5,528 being local transmissions, [Read More]