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What is the ‘delta plus’ variant of the coronavirus?
Published On: October 22, 2021 10:55 AM NPT By: Associated Press
AP, Oct 22: Scientists are monitoring the delta-related variant — known as AY.4.2. — to see if it might spread more easily or be more deadly than previous versions of the coronavirus. In a recent report, U.K. officials said this variant makes up 6% of all analyzed COVID-19 cases in the country and is “on an increasing trajectory.”
Biden says United States would come to Taiwan's defense
Published On: October 22, 2021 08:51 AM NPT By: Reuters
BALTIMORE, Oct 22: The United States would come to Taiwan's defense and has a commitment to defend the island China claims as its own territory, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday, comments that appeared to be a break with official policy.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Powell dies of COVID-19 complications
Published On: October 18, 2021 06:30 PM NPT By: Reuters
WASHINGTON, Oct 18: Colin Powell, the first Black U.S. secretary of state and top military officer, died on Monday at the age of 84 due to complications from COVID-19. He was fully vaccinated, his family said in a statement on Facebook.
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Two Hindu men killed in fresh Bangladesh religious unrest
Published On: October 16, 2021 03:49 PM NPT By: Republica
DHAKA, Oct 16: Two Hindu men have been killed in fresh religious violence in Bangladesh, police officials said Saturday, taking the death toll to six from recent unrest in the Muslim-majority country.
Former U.S. President Clinton hospitalized in California
Published On: October 16, 2021 03:40 PM NPT By: Republica
LOS ANGELES, Oct 16: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in southern California for a non-coronavirus-related infection, his spokesperson said Thursday.
British lawmaker stabbed to death in 'terrorist incident'
Published On: October 16, 2021 11:10 AM NPT By: Reuters
LEIGH-ON-SEA, England, Oct 16: British lawmaker David Amess was stabbed to death in an Essex church on Friday by an assailant who lunged at him as he met voters, in what police said was a terrorist attack.
U.S. offers payments, relocation to family of Afghans killed in botched drone attack
Published On: October 16, 2021 07:52 AM NPT By: Reuters
BENGALURU, Oct 15: The Pentagon has offered unspecified condolence payments to the family of 10 civilians who were killed in a botched U.S. drone attack in Afghanistan in August during the final days before American troops withdrew from the country.
U.S. to lift curbs from Nov 8 for vaccinated foreign travelers: official
Published On: October 15, 2021 06:58 PM NPT By: Reuters
WASHINGTON, Oct 15: The White House will announce on Friday it will lift travel restrictions for fully vaccinated foreign nationals effective Nov. 8, at land borders and for air travel, a White House official said.
Economics Nobel honours 'natural experiments', from minimum wage to migration
Published On: October 12, 2021 12:00 PM NPT By: Reuters
STOCKHOLM, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Economists David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the 2021 Nobel economics prize on Monday for pioneering "natural experiments" to show real-world economic impacts in areas from minimum wage increases in the U.S. fast-food sector to migration from Castro-era Cuba.
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Taliban says US will provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan
Published On: October 11, 2021 07:45 AM NPT By: Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: The U.S. has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, while refusing to give political recognition to the country’s new Taliban rulers, the Taliban said Sunday.
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