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Ottawa: Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam has confirmed a total of 278 cases of monkeypox in the country as of June 29. The cases had been reported nationally, including four cases from British Columbia, five from Alberta, 67 from Ontario and 202 from Quebec, the top doctor said on Thursday. Tam reiterated that […]

Kiev: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has addressed a NATO summit through a video link, urging more defence and financial assistance for Ukraine, the presidential press service reported. In his speech, Zelensky on Wednesday said that Ukraine needs modern missile and air defence systems to protect its cities, and artillery to stand against Russia on the […]

Jeddah: The NRI community living in Gulf countries are remitting money back home as much as they could, as the Indian rupee continued to plummet. Most foreign exchange companies and banks in the Gulf region have been witnessing an unusual remittance rush as NRI cashing on weakening Indian rupee, which hit an all-time low on […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Google is taking steps to ensure that emails from the US political campaigns reach users’ Gmail inboxes instead of automatically getting dumped into the spam folder, media reports said. The tech giant has asked the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for approval on a plan to make emails from “authorised candidate committees, […]

Washington: The US has said it is having “intensive engagement” with key oil consuming countries, including India, on the specifics of how a price cap on Russian oil imports would work, but the issue was not discussed at the level of President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the recent G7 Summit. The […]

Los Angeles: School shootings in the 2020-21 school year rose to the highest number in 20 years, said a new report released. A total of 93 school shootings with casualties occurred at public and private elementary and secondary schools during last school year, including 43 school shootings with deaths and 50 school shootings with injuries […]

New Delhi: Leaders from the G7 have finished their three-day meeting in a spa resort in the Bavarian Alps with a commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, even as they agreed for close collaboration with developing countries to boost clean energy and resilience through new initiatives, comprising its commitment for Just Energy Transition Partnership with […]

London: Latest data released by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) showed the number of confirmed monkeypox cases in the country has reached 1,076. According to UKHSA, up to June 26, 2022, there were 1,076 laboratory confirmed cases in the UK. Of these, 27 were in Scotland, five in Northern Ireland, nine in Wales and […]

This futuristic sky hotel is set to give you the ultimate travel experience. Sky Cruise, a nuclear-powered hotel, will be suspended above the clouds and will be big enough to accommodate 5,000 guests. Its sleek design not only has features of a commercial plane but also has all kinds of luxuries. A viral video of […]

Kiev: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy called the missile strike on a shopping mall in the city of Kremenchuk that killed 16 people, as one of the “most brazen terrorist acts in European history”. According to the President, there were some 1,000 civilians inside the busy Amstor mall which was hit by two missiles at about […]

Houston: At least 40 people were found dead inside a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, local authorities said. The tractor-trailer truck was found on Monday evening next to railroad tracks in a remote area on the city’s southern outskirts, Xinhua news agency reported citing local media as saying. San Antonio is located 250 km from […]

Amman: Twelve people were killed and 251 others injured in a toxic chlorine gas leak from a container at Jordan’s Aqaba port, state media reported. Jordan opened a large field hospital in Aqaba to treat those injured in Monday’s leakage as the Red Sea port city’s hospitals have reached full capacity, Xinhua news agency quoted […]

Kiev: In a virtual address to the G7 Summit, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that he wanted the ongoing war waged by Russia against his country to end before winter. The BBC reported that the Ukrainian President asked the G7 leaders reconstruction aid, anti-aircraft defence systems, help on grain exports and security guarantees. […]

Islamabad: Korean investors have filed a claim with the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) against the government of Pakistan, seeking $94 million in compensation. The investors claimed that the National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) failed to evacuate electricity from the 147-megawatt Patrind Hydropower project for at least six months after the project’s COD, […]

Kabul: Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting Foreign Minister of the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan, expressed optimism about with the regime’s ties with the international community, saying that more countries are expected to reopen their diplomatic missions in Kabul soon. “We have good relations with all the world and our relations are getting better. We hope to […]

Cape Town: Children as young as 13 years old were among the twenty-two people found dead at an East London nightclub in South Africa during the early hours of Sunday morning. National police minister Bheki Cele said that even though he could not yet say what happened at the venue, some of the victims of […]

Mexico City: At least six police officers died early Sunday during a shootout with armed individuals travelling in a convoy of about 10 armoured trucks in the northern Nuevo Leon state, the state’s security ministry said. “Four more policemen were injured and are already receiving medical attention,” the ministry said. The attack occurred between the […]

Kiev: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Belarus is being drawn into Russia’s ongoing war against Kiev more actively than at the beginning, and that the Kremlin has already “decided everything” for Minsk. In his nightly video address on Sunday, the President said: “I want to address today particularly the citizens of Belarus, to people, […]

New York: An Indian-origin man was shot dead execution-style as he was sitting in a jeep near his home in New York, according to media reports. After the shooting on Saturday afternoon, Satnam Singh, 31, was taken to a local hospital where doctors declared him dead, the New York Daily News reported quoting police. The incident […]

Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera on Sunday said that fuel stations across the country will issue tokens for consumers from Monday as only limited stocks were available. Speaking to journalists in Colombo, Wijesekera said that the assistance of the Sri Lankan Army and police was sought and token numbers would […]

New Delhi: Monkeypox virus that has been identified in more than 50 countries with over 3,000 cases since the early May, is an “evolving threat” but does not currently present a global health emergency, said the World Health Organization (WHO). Calling the monkeypox virus “unusual and concerning”, the global health body last week planned to convene […]

Since the Supreme Court of the United States of America overturned the Roe v. Wade judgment on 24 June, scores of people have come out to express their grief and anger. Among them are the likes of Taylor Swift, former President Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, and Rihanna among others. Joining the list of celebrities that […]

Kigali: The 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) underscored the importance of connecting, innovating, and transforming in order to facilitate a full recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. On the final day of the CHOGM 2022 on Saturday, the leaders decided to achieve the 2030 Agenda and to respond to conflicts and crises in ways that […]

New Delhi: Emaar Group CEO Amit Jain, who was detained by immigration authorities at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport and handed over to Punjab Police, was later released after brief questioning at the airport. “He was detained on Friday on the basis of a Look Out Circular in an FIR registered with Punjab Police […]