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The people of Afghanistan are trying to escape from Kabul
According to the BBC information, in Afghanistan, where most of the territory is already controlled by the “Taliban” and the Presidential Palace has been occupied, the population is trying to arrive at the scheduled flights from the capital. A v...
3,670 new cases of coronavirus have been detected in Georgia
According to the information published on Stopcov.ge, within the intensive testing, 41,885 tests were conducted across the country in the last 24 hours, including 24,184 tests with antigen tests and 17,701 PCR tests. As a result of the testing, ...
WHO calls on rich countries to declare moratorium on third dose of COVID vaccine by end of September
The World Health Organization is urging countries to suspend third-dose coronavirus vaccination by at least the end of September, as the gap between the numbers of those vaccinated in rich and poor countries is widening. “I understand the concer...
Asian nations impose stricter COVID-19 restrictions due to Delta outbreaks
Asian countries from Australia to Japan and the Philippines announced tighter COVID-19 restrictions on Friday, as they battle worsening coronavirus outbreaks, driven by the more contagious Delta variant. Detected in some 96 countries, the Delta varia...
India reports most new COVID cases in three weeks
India reported 44,230 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, the most in three weeks, the latest evidence of a worrying trend of rising cases that has forced one state to lock down amid fears of another wave of infections. India was battered by the Delta ...
Russian module mishap destabilises International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) was destabilised after engines of a newly-arrived Russian module inadvertently fired up, officials say. “Mission control teams corrected the action and all systems are operating normally,” US space agency Nasa s...
Thailand builds Covid-19 hospital in Bangkok airport amid surge in cases
Thai volunteers on Wednesday turned a cargo warehouse at Bangkok’s Don Muang Airport into a 1,800-bed field hospital for Covid-19 patients with less severe symptoms, as the country deals with its biggest outbreak to date. The Southeast Asian nation ...
International cruises from England to restart
International cruises will be able to start again from England from 2 August after a 16-month break. People arriving at UK ports who have been fully vaccinated in the US and the EU will also not have to quarantine, the UK government said. It is p...
No quarantine for fully jabbed US and EU travellers to England
People who are fully vaccinated from the EU and US will be able to avoid quarantine when arriving in England, the BBC has been told. Currently, people who have been fully vaccinated in the UK do not need to isolate when travelling from countries on ...
Gilgamesh tablet: US authorities take ownership of artefact
A federal court has ordered that a rare ancient artefact, known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, must be surrendered to authorities. The 3,500-year-old tablet, from what is now Iraq, bears text from the Epic of Gilgamesh – one of the world’s oldest wo...
