Indians rush for vaccines as Covid death toll passes 200,000
Indians struggled to register online for a mass vaccination drive set to begin at the weekend as the country’s toll from the coronavirus surged past 200,000 on Wednesday, worsened by ...
5G quantum phones debut in China
With a super SIM card and app, some Chinese smartphone users will soon be able to make phone calls protected by quantum encryption.
Unlike traditional encryption methods that rely solely ...
India’s coronavirus death toll surpasses 200,000 after record case surge
India’s COVID-19 death toll surged past 200,000 on Wednesday as shortages of oxygen, medical supplies and hospital staff compounded a record number of new cases of the virus.
India’s ...
India asks Twitter to take down tweets critical of its Covid handling
The Indian government asked social media platform Twitter to take down dozens of tweets, including some by local lawmakers, that were critical of India’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, ...
Coronavirus swamps Indian hospitals as countries promise aid
India’s new coronavirus infections hit a record peak for a fifth day on Monday, as countries including Britain, Germany and the United States pledged to send urgent medical aid ...
India coronavirus cases set new global record, U.S. readies help
India set a new global record of the most number of coronavirus infections in a day, as the United States said it was racing to send help to the country.
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India’s coronavirus infections rose by 346,786 overnight
By Sanjeev Miglani and Manoj Kumar
India’s coronavirus infections rose by 346,786 overnight, the health ministry said on Saturday, setting a new world record for the third consecutive day, as ...
China could rule world’s technology, UK cyber spy chief says
The West must urgently act to ensure China does not dominate important emerging technologies and gain control of the “global operating system”, Britain’s top cyber spy said on Friday.
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India records worlds highest number of infections, hospitals running out of oxygen
India reported the world’s highest daily tally of coronavirus cases for the second day on Friday, surpassing 330,000 new cases, as it struggles with a health system in crisis and ...
India posts world record Covid cases with oxygen running out
India recorded the world’s highest daily tally of 314,835 Covid-19 infections on Thursday as a second wave of the pandemic raised new fears about the ability of crumbling health services ...
Car bombing at luxury hotel in Quetta kills 4, Chinese ambassador possible target
car bomb blast late on Wednesday ripped through a luxury hotel’s parking area in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, killing four people and wounding 11, officials said.
China’s ...
Cambodia police defend caning of lockdown offenders
Cambodian police defended on Wednesday making arrests and punishing people by beating them using rattan canes for breaching coronavirus restrictions during a two-week lockdown aimed at containing a spike in ...
Non-stop cremations cast doubt on India’s counting of COVID dead
Gas and firewood furnaces at a crematorium in the western Indian state of Gujarat have been running so long without a break during the COVID-19 pandemic that metal parts have ...
Myanmar state media says death toll in violence exaggerated
Myanmar’s state media said on Monday that 258 civilians have died in violence in the country in anti-military protests since Feb. 1 and that other tolls were exaggerated.
According to the ...
Modi appeals to keep Hindu festival symbolic as India’s infections surge
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday appealed to devotees to keep a key Hindu festival symbolic as the country reported more than 200,000 new COVID-19 infections for the third straight ...
Cancellation of Olympics remains an option as pandemic’s fourth wave surges
A senior Japanese ruling party official said cancelling this year’s Olympics in Tokyo remains an option if the coronavirus crisis becomes too dire, as a fourth wave of infections ...
Biden to start US Afghanistan pullout on May 1
President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he will begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan on May 1 to end America’s longest war, rejecting calls for U.S. forces to ...
With 100 days to go, Tokyo scrambles to stage pandemic Olympics
When Japan won the bid to host the Olympic Games eight years ago, it billed Tokyo as a reliable and secure location, contrasting it with rivals struggling with finances and ...
Japan to release contaminated Fukushima water into sea
Japan will release more than 1 million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, the government said on Tuesday, a move China called “extremely irresponsible”, ...
Don’t play with fire on Taiwan, China warns US
China told the United States on Tuesday to stop playing with fire over Taiwan and lodged a complaint after Washington issued guidelines that will enable U.S. officials to meet ...
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi asks court to let her meet lawyers
Myanmar’s detained government leader Aung San Suu Kyi asked a court on Monday to be allowed to meet her lawyers in person when she appeared at a hearing via ...
Protests break out after murder of kidnapped woman in Kyrgyzstan
Hundreds of people rallied in front of Kyrgyzstan‘s interior ministry on Thursday to demand the resignation of its leadership for what they called police inaction over the murder of ...
Calls for new probe into Covid origins – with or without China
A joint China-World Health Organization (WHO) study into COVID-19 has provided no credible answers about how the pandemic began, and more rigorous investigations are required – with or without Beijing’s ...
US Senate moves ahead with sweeping effort to counter China
The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee has scheduled a meeting on April 14 to consider major bipartisan legislation to boost the country’s ability to push back against China’s ...