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Sri Lanka leader declares emergency amid protests
Published On: May 7, 2022 09:42 AM NPT By: Associated Press
COLOMBO, May 7: Sri Lanka’s president declared a state of emergency on Friday giving him broad authority amid widespread public protests demanding his resignation over the country’s worst economic crisis in recent memory.
G7 leaders to hold video conference with Zelensky on Sunday
Published On: May 6, 2022 09:09 PM NPT By: AFP/RSS
BERLIN, May 6: Leaders of the world's top industrialised nations will hold video talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, a spokeswoman for the German government as acting G7 chair said.
EU tweaks Russia oil sanctions plan in bid to win over reluctant states
Published On: May 6, 2022 08:38 PM NPT By: Reuters
BRUSSELS, May 6: The European Commission has proposed changes to its planned embargo on Russian oil to give Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic more time to prepare for the shift in their energy supplies, three EU sources said on Friday.
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‘Seemed like goodbye’: Mariupol defenders make their stand
Published On: May 6, 2022 07:20 AM NPT By: Associated Press
LVIV, Ukraine, May 6: Ukrainian fighters in the tunnels underneath Mariupol’s pulverized steel plant held out against Russian troops Thursday in an increasingly desperate and perhaps doomed effort to deny Moscow what would be its biggest success of the war yet: the complete capture of the strategic port city.
Prolonged truce needed for Mariupol evacuations, Ukraine's president says
Published On: May 5, 2022 08:24 AM NPT By: Reuters
KYIV, May 5: Civilians including women and children are still trapped inside Ukraine's besieged city of Mariupol and a prolonged ceasefire is needed to ensure their evacuation as Russia presses its assault, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday.
EU set to unveil sanctions on Russian oil as fighting rages in Ukraine
Published On: May 4, 2022 10:55 AM NPT By: Reuters
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, May 4: The European Union is expected to outline oil sanctions against Moscow on Wednesday as Russian forces pounded targets in eastern Ukraine, unleashing rockets on a steel plant that is the last redoubt for resistance in the port city of Mariupol.
Russian strikes pound Ukraine on eve of new EU sanctions
Published On: May 4, 2022 08:45 AM NPT By: Reuters
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, May 4: Russian forces pounded targets in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, unleashing rockets on a steel plant that is Ukraine's last redoubt in the port city of Mariupol as the European Union prepared to slap oil sanctions on Moscow.
India records 3,157 new COVID-19 cases, total tally rises to 43,082,345
Published On: May 2, 2022 05:30 PM NPT By: Republica
NEW DELHI, May 2: India's COVID-19 tally rose to 43,082,345 on Monday as 3,157 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the South Asian country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data.
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Evacuation of civilians from Ukrainian steel plant begins
Published On: May 2, 2022 04:02 PM NPT By: Associated Press
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, May 2: Ukrainian civilians holed up inside a steel plant in Mariupol under siege by Russian forces nearly two months began evacuating over the weekend and people sheltering elsewhere in the city were to leave Monday, local officials said.
COVID's new Omicron sub-lineages can dodge immunity from past infection, study says
Published On: May 2, 2022 07:30 AM NPT By: Reuters
JOHANNESBURG, May 2: Two new sublineages of the Omicron coronavirus variant can dodge antibodies from earlier infection well enough to trigger a new wave, but are far less able to thrive in the blood of people vaccinated against COVID-19, South African scientists have found.
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