Category: World

(BBC): Japan has announced emergency Covid measures in Tokyo and three other areas in a bid to curb rising infections, just three months before the country is set to host the Olympics. The government said the state of emergency – set to last for about two weeks – would be “short and powerful”. Under the… Continue reading Japan declares virus emergency in Tokyo as Olympics near

NEW DELHI (AP): India put oxygen tankers on special express trains as major hospitals in New Delhi begged on social media on Friday for more supplies to save COVID-19 patients who are struggling to breathe. More than a dozen people died when an oxygen-fed fire ripped through a coronavirus ward in a populous western state.… Continue reading Indian hospitals plead for oxygen, country sets virus record

MINNEAPOLIS (AP): Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man’s neck in a case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S. Chauvin, 45, was immediately led away with… Continue reading Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in Floyd’s death

(Reuters): Osaka will ask the Japanese government to declare a state of emergency in an effort to reverse the rise in coronavirus cases, the governor of the country’s third-most populous prefecture said on Monday. Osaka and several other prefectures have been in a “quasi-emergency” state for two weeks, with targeted measures aimed at controlling the… Continue reading Japan’s Osaka to ask govt to declare state of emergency – governor

(BBC): Russia has announced that 20 diplomats from the Czech Republic will be expelled from the country. The Czech Republic expelled 18 Russian diplomats on Saturday. Czech local intelligence agents claim the diplomats are Russian intelligence operatives. They are suspected of involvement in an explosion at an arms depot in 2014. European Union foreign ministers… Continue reading Russia expels Czech diplomats over explosion row

CNN: Three people were pronounced dead at the scene of a shooting in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, according to tweets from Austin-Travis County EMS. The shooting appears to be “a domestic situation that is isolated,” a tweet from Austin police said.Police identified the suspect, still at large, as Stephen Nicholas Broderick, 41.It is unknown if… Continue reading Three people are dead after apparent ‘domestic situation’ in Austin, Texas

Kathmandu: More than 1,600 people have died in a single day from corona infection in India. In the last 24 hours, 1,625 people have died due to corona infection, according to Indian media. In the last 24 hours, more than 275,300 corona infections have been confirmed. In India, more than 1.5 corona infections have been… Continue reading More 1,600 died of corona in India, 275,000 infected in a single day

NEW DELHI (AP): India’s two largest cities imposed stringent restrictions on movement and one planned to use hotels and banquet halls to treat coronavirus patients as new infections in the country shot past 200,000 Thursday amid a devastating surge that is straining a fragile health system. The soaring cases and deaths come just months after… Continue reading India’s biggest cities shut down as new virus cases hit 200K

(BBC): More than 80 people have been killed by Myanmar security forces in a crackdown on a protest in the city of Bago, activists say. The military is reported to have taken away the bodies of those killed, and the true number of deaths may never be accurately established. Witnesses told local media that soldiers… Continue reading Myanmar coup: ‘Dozens killed’ in military crackdown in Bago

NEW DELHI (Reuters): India reported another record number of new COVID-19 infections on Friday and daily deaths hit their highest in more than five months, as it battles a second wave of infections and states complain of a persistent vaccine shortage. Evoking memories of the last national lockdown when tens of thousands of people walked… Continue reading India’s COVID-19 infections, deaths surge as migrants start to flee cities