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Bangladesh's total COVID-19 cases surpass 822,000
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], June 11 (ANI/Xinhua): Bangladesh's COVID-19 death toll topped 13,000 Friday, with total cases surpassing 822,000 as the country struggles to limit the resurgence of infections.
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Namibia implements urgent measures amid spike in COVID-19 cases
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Windhoek [Namibia], June 11 (ANI/Xinhua): The Namibian government on Friday took an urgent decision to step up preventive measures after a spike in both new COVID-19 cases and related fatality rate in the last three weeks.
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5.3-magnitude quake hits eastern Taiwan
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 11 (ANI/Xinhua): A 5.3-magnitude earthquake jolted Hualien County in eastern Taiwan at 3.33 pm on Friday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).
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WHO, UNICEF declare end of polio outbreak in Philippines
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], June 11 (ANI/Xinhua): The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) hailed the Philippines on Friday for ending the polio outbreak almost two years after the highly infectious disease re-emerged in the Southeast Asian country.
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Myanmar authorities arrest 638 suspects for terror acts, illegal possessio
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], June 11 (ANI/Xinhua): Myanmar authorities have recently arrested a total of 638 suspects for committing terror acts and illegally possessing firearms, state-run media reported Friday.
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At least 7 killed in highway collision in Bolivia
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Sucre [Bolivia], June 11 (ANI/Xinhua): At least seven people were killed in a collision between a public transport minibus and a large truck near the Bolivian town of Opoqueri on the Oruro-Pisiga international highway, police said on Thursday.
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Tunisia reports 2,373 new COVID-19 cases, 362,658 in total
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Tunis [Tunisia], June 11 (ANI/Xinhua): Tunisian Health Ministry on Thursday reported 2,373 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total number of infections in the country to 362,658.
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US: 4 killed, multiple injured in eight-vehicle collision in Arizona
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Arizona [US], June 11 (ANI/Xinhua): Four people were killed and multiple others were injured Wednesday night in a crash involving a commercial truck transporting milk and seven other vehicles, authorities said Thursday.
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UK reports another 7,393 coronavirus cases
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], June 10 (ANI/Xinhua): Britain reported another 7,393 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 4,542,986, according to official figures released Thursday.
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3 killed in Houthi airstrikes in Yemen's Marib
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Aden [Yemen], June 11 (ANI/Xinhua): Three Yemenis were killed and nearly 16 others injured by airstrikes launched by the Houthi rebels against the country's oil-rich province of Marib on Thursday, a government official told Xinhua.
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Uganda scraps controversial social media tax
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kampala [Uganda], June 10 (ANI/Xinhua): Uganda on Thursday scrapped the controversial social media tax in the 2021/2022 financial year budget.
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Namibian tribes file petition to UN over genocide deal with Germany
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Windhoek [Namibia], June 10 (ANI/Xinhua): A group of Namibian Ovaherero and Nama tribes on Thursday petitioned the United Nations (UN) to intervene over what they called an "unfair and botched" deal struck by the Germany and Namibian governments on the genocide between 1904 and 1908.
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