For the first time, the Indian government has approved financial powers for the entire top brass of the country’s armed forces. Earlier, only the chiefs and the vice chiefs of the three services — the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force — were allowed to make such decisions. The move to financially empower senior […]
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A new report finds that life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic caused its first wave of deaths Life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic caused its […]
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The Saudi health ministry has begun the vaccination campaign against coronavirus at the Umm Al-Qura University Vaccination Center in Al-Abdiyah, Makkah. Hamad Al-Otaibi, spokesman of health affairs in Makkah region, said on Tuesday that the gradual operation of the vaccination centre at Umm Al-Qura University has started, the Saudi Gazette reported. He said that vaccines […]
Continue ReadingThe number of new cases of Covid-19 reported worldwide fell by 16 percent last week to 2.7 million, the World Health Organization said. The number of new deaths reported also fell 10 percent week-on-week, to 81,000, the WHO said late Tuesday in its weekly epidemiological update, using figures up to Sunday. Five of the six […]
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Myanmar’s anti-coup protesters returned to the streets in force yesterday, staging the biggest demonstrations since troops fanned out around the country to quell opposition to the new military junta. Much of the country has been in open revolt since the military deposed Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s government at the start of the month […]
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