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Tokyo: Japan’s health ministry has approved the use of a smallpox vaccine believed to be effective against monkeypox. The smallpox vaccine approved by the ministry is thought to be 85 per cent effective against monkeypox, health officials said. The move came after Japan confirmed two cases of the disease in late July in men in […]

San Francisco: Silicon Valley-based online trading app Robinhood has sacked 23 per cent of its workforce, just three months after the fintech platform reduced its headcount by 9 per cent amid the global economic turmoil. A 23 per cent reduction would amount to about 713 employees being laid off, leaving nearly 2,400 employees at the […]

Beijing: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday during a visit to the island that has drawn Beijing’s ire. Pelosi also visited the Taiwan parliament during the trip, which made her the highest-ranking US official to visit the island in 25 years, dpa news agency reported. Beijing views the self-governing […]

New York: Monkeypox becoming endemic in the US would be the “worst public health failure in modern times” because it could have been prevented, says former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) director Scott Gottlieb. Writing in the op-ed, Gottlieb said should the disease become endemic, it would be a serious failure because this could have […]

Washington: The United States has sanctioned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rumoured girlfriend Alina Maratovna Kabaeva in a fresh round of sanctions targeting Russian elites over Moscow’s actions in Ukraine. According to the Treasury Department, the 39-year-old Kabaeva was in a “close relationship to Putin.” She is a former member of the State Duma and is […]

Taipei: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday night, becoming the highest-ranking American official to visit the self-ruled island that is claimed by China in 25 years. Pelosi’s visit has triggered increased tensions between China and the United States. China claims Taiwan as part of its territory, to be annexed by force […]

Hyderabad: A video of a member of the Queen’s guard on horseback screaming at tourists in London has sparked debate after the video went viral on social media. It happened after two women outside Buckingham Palace were seen posing for pictures and got too close to the horse. In the video, it was seen that […]

Washington: Ayman al-Zawahiri succeeded as the leader of the global terror group Al Qaeda after former US President Barack Obama took out the dreaded Osama Bin Laden in a planned attack in Abotttabad in 2011. Al-Zawahiri, who was killed in a US drone strike carried out by the CIA in Kabul on Sunday, was a […]

Washington [US]: Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed on Saturday in an air strike by the United States, US President Joe Biden confirmed on Monday (local time). “On Saturday, at my direction, the United States successfully concluded an air strike in Kabul, Afghanistan and killed Al Qaeda Amir Ayman al-Zawahiri,” Biden said in a […]

Geneva/London: Amid four deaths due to monkeypox outside Africa, including India, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the infectious disease is likely to lead to more fatalities. “With the continued spread of monkeypox, we will expect to see more deaths,” Catherine Smallwood, Senior Emergency Officer at WHO Europe, said in a statement. Smallwood […]

Jeddah: An immigrant worker hailing from Mancherial district was drowned in the recent floods that ravaged Fujairaj, one of the seven emirates of the UAE, according to information reaching here. The deceased worker was identifid as Uppala Linga Reddy (35) from Jannaram mandal of Mancherial district. Reports said Linga Reddy and 20 other workers were […]

Colombo: The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has warned that companies and individuals that do not comply with all regulations on foreign exchange transactions will be punished sternly, local media reported on Monday. The CBSL said that a major factor contributing to the current crisis in the country is the lack of foreign exchange […]

Hyderabad: From competing in Limca races to being the only person of Indian origin to win the half marathon in Antarctica, Mohan Ambati’s journey is a fascinating one. “It was a unique experience. It was like I was on a different planet, rather than a continent,” said Ambati, 53, a Hyderabadi settled in the United […]

Mancherial: A migrant labourer of remote Chintaguda village in Jannaram mandal was killed after being stranded in flood-affected Fujairah city in United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Friday. His colleagues informed his family members about the incident on Sunday. The normal life of the city was hit by the floods over the last one week. The […]

New Delhi: Nearly 25 tonnes of space junk from a recently-launched Chinese rocket crashed down over the Indian Ocean, landing somewhere near Sarawak which is the Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. The US Space Command confirmed in a tweet late on Saturday that China’s Long March 5B (CZ-5B) rocket re-entered over the Indian […]

Washington: President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again on Saturday, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation, the White House said, in a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug. White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a letter that Biden “has experienced no […]

Madrid: Spain has reported a second death in as many days from monkeypox, its health ministry said Saturday. These are believed to be the first confirmed deaths from monkeypox since its outbreak in the European Union. The ministry gave no details on the deceased. It reported its first death from the disease on Friday. The […]

Hyderabad: Did you know yesterday i.e., July 29 was 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours? Yes, the Earth has recorded its shortest day since scientists began using atomic clocks to measure its rotational speed. Scientists point out that the length of day is the time it takes for planet Earth to rotate once on its […]

Madrid: The Spanish Health Ministry has confirmed the first death from monkeypox in the country. The news came less than a week after the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency, reporters Xinhua news agency. Until now, 4,298 cases of the virus have been confirmed in Spain, and 120 people were admitted to […]

San Francisco: In a worrisome trend, a lawsuit filed by the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender (OPD) has claimed that the police used blood samples from new-born babies to fund DNA samples and probe crimes committed more than 25 years ago. The OPD officials learned that the State Police has successfully subpoenaed a newborn […]

New York: In the US, about 1 in 5 of those surveyed (19 per cent) are somewhat (14 per cent) or very worried (5 per cent) about getting monkeypox in the next three months, while 81 per cent are not too (41 per cent) or not at all worried (40 per cent), reveals a new […]

Hyderabad: We have often discussed what it might look like if the world ends. And now, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has just given a glimpse into how the ‘last selfies’ on the Earth before the end of the world would look like. A series of haunting images were posted on TikTok by ‘Robot Overloads’ predicting it […]

Washington: A set of compelling evidence has once again emerged that backs the claims that Wuhan’s Huanan seafood and wildlife market was at the centre of the Covid-19 outbreak that has so far claimed over 6 million lives. Two peer-reviewed studies, published in the journal ‘Science’ take different approaches but come to the same result […]

Washington: A watch said to have belonged to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler sold for a whopping $1.1 million at an auction in the US despite apprehension by members of the Jewish community, a media report said. The timepiece made by German watch firm Huber, which has a swastika and the initials AH engraved on it, was […]