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New Delhi, June 18: Just a day after 28 Chinese military aircraft flew into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone (ADIZ), said to be the largest ever incursion into the tiny island nation, China followed it up with a threat to the world at large.The…

Nairobi, June 18 : Confirmed Covid-19 cases in Africa were surging by 20 per cent on a weekly basis as most countries in the continent were under the third wave of the pandemic, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said.In a statement on Thursd…

Dubai, June 18 : The International Cricket Council (ICC), through its ‘Cricket for Good initiative’, has launched a fundraising campaign to support UNICEF’s emergency Covid-19 response in South Asia.The campaign was launched ahead of the inaugural Wo…

Geneva, June 18 : One in a hundred deaths globally can directly be attributed to suicide, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, arguing that the Covid-19 pandemic has increased factors for suicide worldwide.In 2019, more than 700,000 people died …

Brussels, June 18 : The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said that it may not enforce a 50 per cent efficacy threshold for Covid-19 vaccines but will still analyse the entirety of the evidence before making a decision on market authorisation.EMA’s hea…

London, June 18 : A man who launched his career in a back street of Milton Keynes has scooped the prestigious Indian Restaurant of the Year title and topped TripAdvisors customer ratings chart, Milton Keynes UK reported.Giash Mohammed started out at …

Welington, June 18 : New Zealand citizens aged over 60 will be offered vaccination from July 28 and those aged over 55 from August 11, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.The rollout of the vaccine to the general population will be carried out in age …

Colombo, June 18 : Sri Lankan authorities have announced that the highly transmissible B.1.617.2 or Delta variant has been detected for the first time from the community in capital Colombo.Director of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medici…

Moscow, June 18 : Russia confirmed 14,057 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 5,264,047, the official monitoring and response center said on Thursday.Meanwhile, the national Covid-19 death toll rose by 416 to 127…

Washington, June 18 : The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 177.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.84 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.In its latest update on Friday morning, the University’s Center for…