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Thousands evacuated in N Korea as heavy rain destroys houses
Heavy rains in northeastern North Korea have destroyed or flooded 1,170 houses and forced 5,000 residents to evacuate to safety, North Korea's state...
Hardline cleric Raisi sworn in as Iran president amid tensions with...
Hardline Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi took the oath of office before parliament on Thursday, with the Islamic Republic's clerical rulers facing...
Singapore: Three virus deaths in past 5 days, 98 fresh cases surface...
Singapore reported three deaths from COVID-19 complications in the past five days with 98 new infections surfacing on Thursday. As of Thursday,...
Brazil's northeastern states drop plan to buy Russia's COVID-19...
Brazil's northeastern states suspended plans to import Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine due to the conditions set by the country's health regulator...
U.S. plans to give extra COVID-19 shots to at-risk Americans, Fauci...
The United States is working to give additional COVID-19 booster shots to Americans with compromised immune systems as quickly as possible, as cases...
100k Green Cards at risk of going waste this year, resentment against...
About one lakh employment-based Green Cards are at the risk of being wasted in less than two months, causing resentment among Indian IT professionals...
Resurgent wildfires in Greece burn homes, threaten monuments
A resurgent wildfire burned homes north of Athens and blazes across southern Greece forced more evacuations Thursday as weather conditions worsened...
Casualties of a pandemic: COVID infections breach ominous 200 mn mark
Vaccines have certainly weakened the link between surging cases and instances of serious illness, but in several vaccine-deprived parts of the world,...