East China’s coastal city Qingdao has locked down some parts of local residential compounds and hospitals after three asymptomatic COVID-19 patients were found on Sunday. As per preliminary investigation,...
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A vaccine against COVID-19 may be ready by year-end, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, without elaborating. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, addressing the...
India and Myanmar have agreed to work towards the operationalization of the Sittwe port in the Rakhine state in the first quarter of 2021. The announcement came through a...
Three scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for advancing our understanding of black holes, the all-consuming monsters that lurk in the darkest parts of the...
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5th plenary session of Communist Party of China to review economy amid COVID-19, friction with US
China’s top leadership, the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, is set to convene in Beijing, its fifth plenary session from October 26 to 29 to review its...
China’s Yunnan province recently reported a suspected case of Bubonic plague after Inner Mongolia recorded two deaths due to deadly disease. A level-IV emergency response has been launched to...
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Deadly brain-eating microbe found in tap water in Texas, takes life of 6-year-old boy
Panic gripped Texas after a brain-eating amoeba killed a 6-year-old boy which entered his body through infected water. The governor of Texas meanwhile has issued a disaster declaration after...
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UNESCO to convene special session of global education meeting in Oct to discuss education post COVID-19
The UNESCO will convene an extraordinary session of Global Education Meeting (GEM) in October for exchange among high-level political leaders, policy makers and global education experts to protect and...
The largest Christian human rights association of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Christian Association (BCA), has asked the Pakistan government to repeal the controversial blasphemy law. The BCA submitted a memorandum to...
French terrorism authorities are investigating a double-stabbing outside the former Paris offices of a satirical newspaper where a dozen people were killed in 2015, and two suspects have been...