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The salaries of the rank and file may have plummeted alongside everyone else's earnings in a country that has been in recession for seven years, but the military as an institution remains powerful.

According to the Health Department of the state of Queensland where Brisbane locates, the Greater Brisbane area will enter lockdown from 6:00 pm Friday to 6:00 pm (local time) next Monday.

"The situation is far from being back to normal. The level of contamination remains high and has tended to increase since mid-December," Xinhua news agency quoted Castex as saying at a press conference on Thursday.

In its latest update on Friday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 87,952,778 and 1,895,925, respectively.

According to data released by the Ministry of Health, the new fatality figure was the second highest single-day spike since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country in February 2020, reports Xinhua news agency.

4 killed as Trump supporters storm Capitol building before US Congress certifies Biden-Harris victory

The protests turned violent as the mob marched towards the Capitol breaking down barricades outside, with some of them even reaching legislative floors.

Several tech leaders and social activists called on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to move beyond labelling Trump messages, and aggressively curb his posts amplifying and endorsing violence.

Gupta had served as the principal deputy assistant attorney general and head of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department in former President Barack Obama's administration when Biden was the Vice President.

The festival was cancelled last year, while rival European events in Berlin and Venice went ahead under strict health restrictions.

Gui, who competed in long jump at the 2004 Athens Paralympics, is new to bodybuilding but won the first time she competed in October.

The formal certification by the Joint Session came in the wee hours of Thursday. The Joint Session which resumed its meeting late Wednesday night after it was disrupted by hundreds of supporters of incumbent President Donald Trump

Washington, Jan 7 (AP) Four people died as supporters of President Donald Trump violently occupied the US Capitol. Washington DC Police Chief Robert Contee said the dead on Wednesday included a woman who was shot by the US Capitol Police, as well as three others who died in “medical emergencies”. Police said both law enforcement […]

In a video on Wednesday, Trump Urged his supporters, who forced their way into the Capitol earlier in the day, to go home, but repeated his unsubstantiated claims about widespread fraud in the November 3, 2020

Nieve is the first-ever white tiger born to a pair of yellow-and-black-coloured Bengals

Towers and palaces made of ice stun visitors at Harbin ice festival

The measures, which include a stay-at-home order and the closure of schools to most pupils, were announced by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday.

Two members had already set out on their journey - one has now turned back and the other is in transit in a third country, the BBC reported on Wednesday.

This incident took place within months of property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang being sentenced to 18 years of imprisonment. Experts said that this would lead to an environment of extreme uncertainty

South African strain called as ‘501.V2’ could not only be more infectious than the UK strain but has the potential to have more resistance to Covid vaccines being rolled-out

"Based on a suggestion from the Kuwaiti Emir, the two countries have agreed to reopen the land, air, and sea borders between the two countries as of today's evening.

Millions would flock to the streets across Spain to welcome the gift-laden Three Kings

Antani was first elected to the Ohio statehouse in 2014, from the 42nd District. At 23, he was the youngest member of the House.

The move comes amid widespread criticism over females being banned from certain professions