Spain holds huge Christmas lottery with virus restrictions
Author: Associated Press ID: 1608630178376056000 Tue, 2020-12-22 09:39 MADRID: Children from Madrid’s San Ildefonso school have begun calling out prize-winning numbers in Spain’s bumper...
Carelessness may be fueling rapid spread of coronavirus mutation in UK, say WHO experts
Author: Tue, 2020-12-22 12:42 NEW YORK: World Health Organization (WHO) officials on Monday said the novel coronavirus is mutating “at a much slower rate”...
Kremlin says Navalny suffers ‘delusions of persecution’
Author: AFP ID: 1608634177766259500 Tue, 2020-12-22 10:47 MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Tuesday that opposition leader Alexei Navalny was a “sick” man who suffered...
US warship sails by China-claimed Spratly Islands
Author: AFP ID: 1608636634346385200 Tue, 2020-12-22 11:25 WASHINGTON: An American warship sailed through waters off the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea...
Taiwan reports first local Covid-19 case in more than 250 days
Taiwan has recorded its first locally-transmitted case of coronavirus since April. The island has had one of the most successful pandemic responses in the...
Seoul is facing an ICU bed shortage. See how the city is trying to tackle it
South Korea, once considered a model nation in combating Covid-19, now faces a dire shortage of ICU beds for coronavirus patients. CNN’s Paula Hancocks...
US strikes at the heart of China’s bid to become a tech superpower
China had been counting on its biggest chipmaker to help the country eventually reduce its reliance on the likes of Intel and Samsung. The...
Man who killed British backpacker Grace Millane abused two other women before her death
The 28-year-old man convicted of killing British backpacker Grace Millane while she was visiting New Zealand has been found guilty of abusing two other...
NEW DELHI, India, Dec 22 (IPS) – The court victory to allow women into the inner sanctum of a Sufi shrine in Mumbai was...
Opinion: Pretty soon, we may need more oil than we can produce
The oil industry has always been a boom-and-bust business, and 2020 will go down as the biggest bust in the industry’s history thanks to...
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