President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a decree simplifying the procedure to get a Russian passport for residents of the southern Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. Kherson region is under the full control of Russian troops, while...
Nike will not renew licensing agreements in Russia, the company said Wednesday, joining a growing list of Western companies pulling back from the country following the Ukraine invasion of Ukraine. The move affects licensed retailers as Nike...
Zimbabwe’s inflation rate jumped to 131.7 percent in May, the statistics office said Wednesday, as fallout from the Ukraine war hit an already battered economy. Inflation reached triple digits for the first time since June last year with...
Orders for US-made, big-ticket manufactured goods continued their upward trend last month, though at a slower pace, driven primarily by demand for commercial aircraft, according to government data released Wednesday. Durable goods orders rose 0.4...
Despite the recent scare of monkeypox spreading rapidly to over a dozen countries, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has dispelled fears by stating that the virus does not spread via air easily like COVID-19. According to CNBC...
Britain’s political leaders and top officials “must bear responsibility” for the culture that led to numerous lockdown-breaching parties in Downing Street, said a long-awaited report by a senior civil servant published on Wednesday...
A leading infectious diseases expert has urged that the influenza vaccine be made available to all Australians in order to avert a health “disaster.” Ian Barr, WHO Deputy Director of the Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on...
The Philippine parliament on Wednesday proclaimed Ferdinand Marcos as the country’s 17th president, following his landslide victory in the May 9 polls. House of Representatives Speaker Lord Allan Velasco said: “I hereby proclaim...
Health authorities in Canada said Tuesday they had identified 10 new cases of monkeypox in Quebec, bringing the total number to 15, with additional cases expected in other provinces. Monkeypox, detected in recent weeks in Europe and North America...
Test systems for detecting monkeypox will be ready for use in Belarus by mid-June, according to Alexander Tarasenko, the country’s Deputy Health Minister and Chief State Sanitary Doctor. The National Research Center for Epidemiology and...
North Korea has trialled a “nuclear detonation device”, a senior South Korean presidential official said Wednesday, adding that a nuclear test could be imminent. US and South Korean officials have warned for weeks that Pyongyang may...
According to National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge, the monkeypox virus circulating in Portugal belongs to a less aggressive lineage spreading in West Africa. The genome-sequencing of the monkeypox virus circulating in the country has...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said France shared Americans’ anger over the school shooting in Texas, which left at least 19 children and two teachers dead. “We share the shock and grief of the American people, and the...
North Korea fired a volley of missiles Wednesday, including possibly its largest intercontinental ballistic missile, just hours after US President Joe Biden left Asia after a trip overshadowed by Pyongyang’s sabre-rattling. North Korea has...
UPDATE 2: 15 people are dead including a teacher in Elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, CNN reported citing Gov. Abbott. JUST IN: Gov. Abbot says shooter has killed total 15 people (14 students and a teacher) at Robb Elementary School in...
