Ankara [Turkey], June 2 (ANI/Xinhua): Turkey on Tuesday confirmed 7,112 new COVID-19 cases, including 602 symptomatic patients, as the total infections in the country reached 5,256,516.
Lagos [Nigeria], June 2 (ANI/Xinhua): Four people were killed in gunmen attack in northwest Nigeria's Kaduna state on Monday, a local official said on Tuesday.
Windhoek [Namibia], June 2 (ANI/Xinhua): Namibia on Tuesday recorded 24 COVID-19 deaths, the highest daily number since the novel coronavirus was reported in the country in March last year, according to Health Minister Kalumbi Shangula.
Moscow [Russia], June 1 (ANI/Xinhua): Russia registered 9,500 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 5,081,417, the official monitoring and response center said Tuesday.
Manila [Philippines], June 1 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported on Tuesday 5,177 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the tally in the Southeast Asian country to 1,235,467.
Tashkent [Uzbekistan], June 1 (ANI/Xinhua): Two people died and another two were injured when a gas cylinder in a car exploded on a highway in the Kashkadarya region, the Uzbek Emergency Situations Ministry said on Tuesday.
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 1 (ANI/Xinhua): Four people were killed and 28 others injured as a military vehicle-laden explosive device went off in Baghlan-e-Markazi district of the northern Baghlan province on Monday, provincial police spokesman Ahmad Jawed Basharat said Tuesday.
Bogota [Colombia], June 1 (ANI/Xinhua): Eight men and one woman were killed on a farm located in the rural area of Algeciras in the southern Colombian department of Huila, Mayor of Algeciras Libardo Pinto said Monday.
Abuja [Nigeria], June 1 (ANI/Xinhua): Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday condemned the kidnapping of children from a school in the north-central state of Niger on Sunday, and urged agencies involved to do their utmost to rescue the kidnapped kids.
Punjab [Pakistan], June 1 (ANI): At least 10 people were killed and three others injured in different rain-related incidents in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province on Monday evening, Xinhua reported citing local media.
Honshu [Japan], June 1 (ANI/Xinhua): An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted off the east coast of Honshu, Japan at 22:04:42 GMT on Monday, the US Geological Survey said.