Aden (Yemen) January 8 (ANI/Xinhua): At least five people were killed on Saturday in a landmine explosion in Yemen's southern province of Shabwa, a military official told Xinhua.
Hanoi [Vietnam], January 8 (ANI/Xinhua): Vietnam reported 16,553 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, including 16,513 locally transmitted and 40 imported, according to its Ministry of Health.
Jakarta [Indonesia], January 8 (ANI/Xinhua): Indonesia confirmed 479 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, raising the country's tally of infections to 4,265,666, according to the Health Ministry.
Beijing [China], January 8 (ANI): Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, reported 46 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Friday, local media reported citing authorities as saying on Saturday.
Beijing [China], January 8 (ANI): Chinese President Xi Jinping is focusing on the military modernisation of the country to dominate the Indo-Pacific region amid the growing presence of the US with Quad and AUKUS alliances in the region and Washington's promises to stand with Taiwan against B
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 8 (ANI): Two terrorists were killed in a shootout with police in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Xinhua reported citing officials from the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of police as saying on Saturday.
Cairo [Egypt], January 8 (ANI/Xinhua): At least 16 people were killed and 18 others wounded early Saturday in a bus crash on the international highway in the Sinai Peninsula in north-eastern Egypt, the country's Health Ministry said in a statement.
Beijing [China], January 8 (ANI): China is inflicting "cultural genocide" not only in Xinjiang and Tibet but also in Mongolia, said a media report on Friday.
Manila [Philippines] January 8 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines reported a record high 26,458 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, pushing the total number of the confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 29,36,875.
Shenzhen [China], January 8 (ANI): Realme VP and head of Realme International business group Madhav Sheth has confirmed that the company's latest GT2 series is launching internationally soon and also teased the new tablet and laptop announcements set for 2022.
Hong Kong, January 8 (ANI): The zero-COVID chaotic lockdown in Xi'an city, a major metropolis of 13 million people, has clearly revelaed China's uncompromising top-down bureaucracy's apathy to the plight of the people.
Budapest [Hungry], January 7 (ANI/Xinhua): The fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic driven by the Omicron variant has hit Hungary, Bela Merkely, rector of Semmelweis Medical University in Budapest and leader of the Clinical Epidemiology Working Group, said on public television M1 on Friday.