Xi'an [China], January 24 (ANI): The city of Xi'an in the northern Chinese province of Shaanxi on Monday lifted the lockdown imposed in late December due to a coronavirus outbreak, the local government said, reported Sputnik.
Tripoli [Libya], January 24 (ANI/Xinhua): Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah stressed on Sunday his rejection of any armed conflict in the country.
Cape Town [South Africa], January 23 (ANI): Team India head coach Rahul Dravid said that all-rounder Deepak Chahar has shown his quality in the limited opportunities he has gotten, and the side would like to give him more of a consistent run in the playing XI.
Dar es Salaam [Tanzania], January 23 (ANI/Xinhua): At least five people from the same family have been killed by unidentified assailants in Tanzania's central region of Dodoma, police said on Sunday.
Moscow [Russia], January 23 (ANI/Xinhua): Russia reported 63,205 COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours, the highest daily count since the pandemic hit the country, taking the national tally to 11,108,191, the official monitoring and response centre said on Sunday.
Manila [Philippines], January 23 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 29,828 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday, raising the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 3,417,216.
Manila [Philippines], January 23 (ANI/Xinhua): An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 hit Davao Oriental province in the southern Philippines on Sunday afternoon, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.
Ulaanbaatar [Mongolia], January 23 (ANI/Xinhua): Mongolia's Health Ministry on Sunday confirmed 2,766 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the total confirmed cases to 427,588.
Lhasa [Tibet], January 23 (ANI): Drawing similarities between Taliban and Xi Jinping, Strategic expert Brahma Chellaney said that Chinese authorities demolished a 99-foot statue of Lord Buddha in a Tibetan region of Sichuan in the same manner when the Taliban destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas.
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], January 23 (ANI/Xinhua): Malaysia reported 4,116 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Saturday, bringing the national total of infections to 2,829,089, according to the health ministry.
Rio De Janeiro [Brazil], January 23 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil registered 157,393 new COVID-19 infections and 238 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the total caseload to 23,909,175 and the national death toll to 622,801, the National Council of Health Secretariats reported on Saturday.
Tokyo [Japan], January 23 (ANI): Underlining the side effects of Chinese President Xi Jinping's "abrupt and extreme" policies, a report published in a Japanese daily said Xi himself is a risk to the Chinese economy.