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Health Canada authorizes COVID-19 vaccine booster targeting Omicron...
Ottawa [Canada], October 8: Health Canada authorized on Friday a second bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster targeting the Omicron BA.4 and...
Canada confirms 18,478 new COVID-19 cases in one...
Ottawa [Canada], October 8:Canada confirmed 18,478 new COVID-19 cases for the week ending Oct. 1, the Public Health Agency of...
Canada confirms 1,411 monkeypox cases
Ottawa [Canada], October 8: Canada has confirmed 1,411 cases of monkeypox, including 38 hospitalisations, the Public Health Agency of Canada...
New York City declares state of emergency amid...
New York [US], October 8: New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency on Friday in response...
Inflation in Mexico has topped out, says president
Mexico City [Mexico], October 8: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday said inflation in Mexico has topped out...
Singapore reports 5,934 new COVID-19 cases
Singapore, October 8: Singapore reported 5,934 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the total tally to 1,942,204.
Malaysia's pension fund investment income down 21 pct...
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], October 8:Malaysia's pension fund Employees Provident Fund (EPF) said Friday that its total investment income fell 21...
253 arrested in Cambodia's illegal gambling crackdown
Phnom Penh [Cambodia], October 8: Cambodian authorities arrested 253 people in raids across the country in a crackdown on illegal...
Malaysia's economy forecast to expand up to 5...
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], October 8: Malaysia's Finance Ministry forecast on Friday that the Southeast Asian country's economy would expand 4-5...
Myanmar reports 376 new COVID-19 cases
Yangon [Myanmar], October 8: Myanmar confirmed 376 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally...
Lebanon detects 1st case of Cholera since 1993
Beirut [Lebanon], October 7: The Lebanese Health Ministry announced on Thursday the detection of a case of Cholera, the first...
Israeli defense minister puts army on alert amid...
Jerusalem [Israel], October 7: Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Thursday instructed the defense establishment to prepare for any possible...
Iran says West uses human rights as "tool"...
Tehran [Iran], October 7:Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani on Thursday criticized Western countries for what he called their use...
Germany's passenger car market sees strongest growth in...
Berlin [Germany], October 7: Germany's passenger car market saw the strongest growth in more than a year in September, with...
Coronavirus infections, hospitalizations in Italy rising over the...
Rome [Italy], October 7:Italy appears to be heading for a new coronavirus wave, with surging infections and hospitalizations in the...
German Eurowings pilots stage 24-hour strike
Berlin [Germany], October 7: Pilots of Eurowings, a subsidiary of Germany's flag carrier Lufthansa, went on strike on Thursday, leading...
EU adopts 8th package of sanctions against Russia
Brussels [Belgium], October 7: The European Union (EU) on Thursday adopted a new package of sanctions aimed at stepping up...
Greece calls for more cooperation against smugglers
Athens [Greece],October 7: Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday called for better cooperation to eradicate smuggling networks, after 18...
Ukrainian president, IAEA chief meet on situation at...
Kiev [Ukraine],October 7:Ukrainian President VolodymyrZelensky on Thursday met with visiting International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi to...
Inflation in Belarus soars to over 13 pct...
Minsk [Belarus], October 7: Inflation in Belarus amounted to 13.8 percent for the first eight months this year and will...
U.S. imposes sanctions on Iranian leaders over role...
Washington [US], October 7:The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Thursday announced sanctions against Iranian leaders over their role in...
2 dead, 6 injured in stabbing attack in...
Los Angeles [US], October 7: Two people died and six others were injured in a stabbing in front of the...
Biden pardons federal convictions for simple possession of...
Washington [US], October 7: U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he's pardoning all prior federal offenses of simple...
U.S. Philadelphia apologizes for experiments on African American...
Washington [US], October 7: The U.S. city of Philadelphia issued a formal apology on Thursday for experiments conducted on African...
SpaceX spacecraft with four astronauts docks to ISS
Los Angeles [US], October 7: SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with four astronauts on board arrived at the International Space Station (ISS)...
Washington-based think tank PIIE projects mild U.S. recession...
Washington [US], October 7:U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) in 2022 is on track to be 1.7 percent above its 2021...
U.S. forces kill IS leaders in Syria
Washington [US], October 7: U.S. forces have killed three senior leaders of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in twin...