Britain and South Africa have agreed to strengthen their health partnership to help prevent future pandemics. South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, who visited the Francis Crick Institute of Biomedical Research facility signed the agreement on Wednesday in London. As part of the agreement, British and South African institutions will collaborate on nine research projects on […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Moscow is ready to expand the supply of fertilisers and work with all partners in this area. There are artificial barriers created by some countries to the export of Russian fertilisers, which are negatively affecting global markets. But Putin made the remarks during a meeting with Dmitry […]
A six-year-old boy was rescued from rubbles, 48 hours after a magnitude-5.6 earthquake devastated a district in Indonesia’s West Java province. The earthquake left at least 271 dead, a rescue official said on Wednesday. The boy, named Azka, was found alive under the ruins of a house in the Nagrek village of Cianjur district on […]
At least 50 people sustained injuries after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Türkiye’s northwestern province of Duzce early Wednesday. The injured were treated in hospitals in Duzce and nearby regions, Interior Minister, Suleyman Soylu, told the Turkish television channel NTV. Soylu added that one person sustained serious injury after jumping from a balcony out of […]
A gunman shot dead five members of a family injuring another inside a mosque in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Wednesday, Kabul police spokesman, Khalid Zadran confirmed. An armed man, carrying a pistol, opened fire on worshippers inside a mosque in Kabul on Wednesday morning, killing five people, all members of the same family, Zadran confirmed […]
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamed Dbeibah, on Tuesday, launched a national programme for the treatment of cancer patients. The government is also establishing a new government agency, database and localising patients in the country. The new agency will be responsible for developing and implementing necessary policies, plans and programmes to treat cancer. The database is to […]
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says the situation in Iran is critical” as authorities’ response to protests have caused over 300 deaths in two months. Volker Turk, the spokesperson for U.N. Human Rights Chief, made this known at a Geneva news briefing on Tuesday. He said that “the rising number of deaths from […]
At least five persons have died in Malawi due to adverse weather, which included strong winds, stormy rains, lightning and hailstorms, in different parts of the country, an official said. A spokesman for the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA), Chipiliro Khamula, said on Monday that preliminary reports indicated that 450 households in 11 districts […]
A 5.6-magnitude earthquake that hit the Indonesia’s West Java province, on Monday, has killed at least 162 people, officials said. The quake also caused heavy damage to many houses, buildings and infrastructure facilities. People strongly felt the tremors in the national capital Jakarta. About 13,784 people were forced to flee their homes and take shelter […]
Zoom Video Communications Inc, on Monday, lowered its annual revenue forecast, as the video-conferencing platform expects a hit from declining online business. Zoom Chief Financial Officer, Kelly Steckelberg, said during a post-earnings call that the company’s online business would decline nearly eight per cent during the year. After recording blistering growth during the pandemic, Zoom, […]