Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], October 20 (ANI/Xinhua): The Ethiopian federal government on Wednesday confirmed targeted airstrikes in the country's northernmost Tigray region.
Jakarta [Indonesia], October 20 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 914 within one day to 4,237,201, with the death toll adding by 28 to 143,077, the country's health ministry said on Wednesday.
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], October 20 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 8,445,917 cases as of Wednesday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.
New Delhi [India], October 20 (ANI): Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Wednesday allowed students of Class X, XII to change their examination centres for the upcoming Term 1 examination.
Gansu [China], October 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Northwest China's Gansu Province reported four new locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases between 11 p.m. Tuesday and 11 a.m. Wednesday.
Dhaka [Bangladesh], October 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has come down heavily on the developed nations for climate "empty pledges" in the past decades.
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Pakistan added 554 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Wednesday.
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], October 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Malaysia recorded 5,745 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours as of midnight Tuesday, bringing the total tally to 2,401,866, according to the health ministry.
Jerusalem [Israel], October 20 (ANI/Xinhua): The first case of the new COVID-19 Delta variant "AY4.2" was detected in Israel on Tuesday, the country's Ministry of Health said.
Paris [France] October 20 (ANI): A French artist painted a portrait of an activist from the Uyghur community on a building in Marseille city, in a bid to raise awareness of the plight of the persecuted Muslim minority group in China's Xinjiang region.
Aden [Yemen] October 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Fighters of the Houthi rebel militia on Tuesday continued progressing towards capturing Yemen's energy-rich provinces following weeks of ferocious battles, a military official told Xinhua.
Cairo [Egypt], October 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Egyptian and Sudanese armed forces started on Tuesday joint drills in northern Egypt including Egyptian border guards and Sudanese infantry trained for border security, said the Egyptian army.