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Finance Minister Rajapaksa. (AP Photo)World
Sri Lanka announces USD 1 billion economic relief package; says won't...

People owning land below one acre would be given 10,000 rupees (USD 49) subsidy to cultivate food crops, Rajapaksa said

4 Jan 2022 1:34 PM GMT

Volunteers hand out boxes of Covid-19 antigen Lateral Flow Tests (LFT), in north east London on January 3, 2022. (Tolga Akmen / AFP)World
Omicron cases are hitting highs, but new data puts end in sight

A combination of widespread immunity and numerous mutations have resulted in a virus that causes far less severe disease

4 Jan 2022 5:26 AM GMT

Anti-China protest in Kathmandu over land encroachment. (Photo: ANI)World
Nepal tight-lipped over Chinese encroachment of its territory in...

In September last year, a seven-member committee was formed by the Nepal government to study the Nepal-China border

3 Jan 2022 11:26 AM GMT

Airline passengers wearing face masks wait to collect bags from a baggage carousel at the Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) on January 2, 2022 in Las Vegas, California. (Patrick T. FALLON / AFP)World
US air travel still messy, with another 2,600 flights scrapped

Around the world, air traffic has suffered snarls since Xmas because of airline staffing issues linked to the spread of...

3 Jan 2022 5:27 AM GMT

Katelyn Darrow gets some work done on her laptop as she waits to board her flight at the Philadelphia International Airport Friday, Dec. 31, 2021, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Michael Perez)World
US airport chaos as more than 2,700 flights cancelled

Winter weather and crew members infected with COVID-19 have forced airlines to spike thousands of U.S. flights over the...

2 Jan 2022 5:05 AM GMT

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a media briefing here that \the southern part of Tibet belongs to the Tibetan Autonomous Region of Chin and it has been Chinas inherent territories\. (PTI File Image)World
China says Arunachal Pradesh 'inherent part' of its territory

India on Thursday had strongly rejected China renaming 15 places in Arunachal Pradesh

31 Dec 2021 9:28 AM GMT

A health worker prepares to collects a swab sample of an outstation passenger for COVID-19 test, at Dadar railway station in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)World
US woman tests positive for COVID-19 mid-flight, isolates for 5 hours...

Marisa Fotieo, a teacher from Michigan, said her throat began to hurt halfway through the trip on December 19

31 Dec 2021 7:56 AM GMT

A throat swab is taken from a patient to test for COVID-19 at a facility in Soweto, South Africa, Dec. 2, 2021. (AP)World
South Africa lifts curfew as Omicron wave subsides

Infections dropped by almost 30% last week compared to the preceding seven days while hospital admissions also declined...

31 Dec 2021 6:22 AM GMT

Empty vials of Biological-Es covid vaccine Corbevax. (Photo: Biological-E)World
Discussions underway for WHO approval for Corbevax COVID-19 vaccine

Corbevax was recently granted emergency approval by the Indian govt and will be manufactured by Hyderabad-based...

31 Dec 2021 3:43 AM GMT

People wait on line to get tested for COVID-19 in New York. More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to the highest level on record. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman, File)World
New COVID-19 cases in US soar to highest levels on record

New cases per day have more than doubled over the past two weeks, eclipsing the old mark of 250,000, set in mid-January

30 Dec 2021 6:33 AM GMT

Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (ANI file photo)World
Former Afghan President Ghani listed among 'most corrupt' people of...

OCCRP said Ghani deserved an award because he 'deserted his people leaving them to misery and death'

29 Dec 2021 6:15 AM GMT

A woman writes the word \Omicron\ into a piece of paper that will be placed on a handmade doll depicting Covid-19 Omicron variant in Managua. (Photo: AFP)World
Omicron risk remains 'very high', says WHO

The WHO noted that the rapid growth rate is likely to be a combination of both immune evasion and intrinsic increased...

29 Dec 2021 5:24 AM GMT

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