YANGON, Myanmar (Reuters) – A shallow and powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 shook the Myanmar-India border region early on Friday (November 26), but no damage was reported. The quake struck at a depth of 12 kilometres and was around 140 kilometres from Aizawl in northeastern India, according toContinue Reading
THE HAGUE (AFP) – On Thursday, the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine was approved in Europe for children aged five to eleven, paving the path for immunisation in a cohort where the virus is rapidly expanding. A panel of experts “suggested awarding an extension of indication for the Covid-19 vaccination Comirnaty toContinue Reading
TEL AVIV (AFP) – Benny Gantz, Israel’s defence minister, will travel to Morocco on Tuesday to “formalise” bilateral cooperation, authorities say, at a time when Rabat is mired in a dispute over Western Sahara. The two-day trip comes less than a year after Morocco’s ties with Israel were normalised thanksContinue Reading
BOSNEK (AFP) – In Europe’s deadliest road catastrophe in the last decade, 46 people were killed, including a dozen youngsters, when their tourist bus caught fire on a Bulgarian highway early Tuesday. The reason has not been identified, but officials suspect the bus collided with the guardrails and caught fireContinue Reading
MILWAUKEE (Wisconsin) — Authorities reported Sunday that an SUV ploughed through a Christmas parade in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, killing four people and injuring at least 20 more according to USA Today. The investigation is still underway, according to Waukesha Police Chief Dan Thompson, but a “suspect car” wasContinue Reading
HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Authorities in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh announced Saturday that at least 17 people had killed and scores were missing as a result of days of severe rainfall. Since Thursday, the state has been pounded by torrential rains, causing severe flooding in at leastContinue Reading
VIENNA, Italy (AP) — Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Vienna on Saturday, many of them from far-right organisations, after the Austrian government declared a statewide lockdown beginning Monday to combat soaring coronavirus infections. On Saturday, protests against viral restrictions were held in Switzerland, Croatia, Italy, Northern Ireland, andContinue Reading
DAKAR AFP) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken advised the clandestine Russian mercenary company Wagner on Saturday not to get involved in Mali, as he pushed for a civilian transition in the troubled nation. During a visit to Senegal, Blinken stated that the US was “contributing to efforts withContinue Reading
KABUL (Reuters) – According to sources, Afghanistan’s Taliban administration will begin paying outstanding paychecks to government employees on Saturday. Thousands of Afghan government employees are due at least three months’ pay, one of the numerous difficulties confronting the Taliban since the Islamist outfit took control of the nation in August.Continue Reading
UNITED NATIONS – A senior committee of the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution reiterating the right to self-determination for peoples subjected to colonial, foreign, and alien occupation on Thursday, with Pakistan describing it as a “cardinal value” of the UN. The resolution, proposed by Pakistan, was co-sponsored byContinue Reading
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