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Queen Elizabeth marks 95th birthday, days after husband's funeral
Published On: April 21, 2021 01:19 PM NPT By: Reuters
UK, April 21: Britain's Queen Elizabeth, the world's oldest monarch, turns 95 on Wednesday, but there will be no public celebrations of an occasion that comes just days after she bade a sad farewell to her husband of seven decades at his funeral.
Jury’s swift verdict for Chauvin in Floyd death: Guilty
Published On: April 21, 2021 10:28 AM NPT By: Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS, April 21: After three weeks of testimony, the trial of the former police officer charged with killing George Floyd ended swiftly: barely more than a day of jury deliberations, then just minutes for the verdicts to be read — guilty, guilty and guilty — and Derek Chauvin was handcuffed and taken away to prison.
Indian capital running out of medical oxygen as pandemic surges
Published On: April 21, 2021 09:19 AM NPT By: Reuters
INDIA, April 21: Authorities said hospitals in the Indian capital of Delhi would start running out of medical oxygen by Wednesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country faced a coronavirus "storm" overwhelming its health system.
‘No place for you’: Indian hospitals buckle amid virus surge
Published On: April 21, 2021 08:55 AM NPT By: Associated Press
NEW DELHI, April 21: Seema Gandotra, sick with the coronavirus, gasped for breath in an ambulance for 10 hours as it tried unsuccessfully to find an open bed at six hospitals in India’s sprawling capital. By the time she was admitted, it was too late, and the 51-year-old died hours later.
India reports record daily COVID-19 death toll, many cities in lockdown
Published On: April 20, 2021 01:14 PM NPT By: Reuters
MUMBAI, April 20: India reported 1,761 deaths from COVID-19 overnight, its highest daily toll, with large parts of the country now under lockdown, as the country battles a second wave that has left people fighting for hospital beds, oxygen and medicines.
Former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale dies at 93
Published On: April 20, 2021 09:17 AM NPT By: Reuters
WASHINGTON DC, April 20: Walter Mondale, a leading liberal Democratic voice of the late 20th century who was U.S. vice president under Jimmy Carter and lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election, died on Monday at age 93, his family said.
India’s capital to lock down as nation’s virus cases top 15M
Published On: April 19, 2021 02:31 PM NPT By: Associated Press
NEW DELHI, April 19: New Delhi was being put under a weeklong lockdown Monday night as an explosive surge in coronavirus cases pushed the India’s capital’s health system to its limit.
Radical Islamist party frees 11 Pakistani police hostages
Published On: April 19, 2021 01:31 PM NPT By: Associated Press
LAHORE, Pakistan, April 19: An outlawed Pakistani Islamist political group freed 11 policemen almost a day after taking them hostage in the eastern city of Lahore amid violent clashes with security forces, the country’s interior minister said Monday.
Half of US adults have received at least one COVID-19 shot
Published On: April 19, 2021 08:51 AM NPT By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, April 19: Half of all adults in the U.S. have received at least one COVID-19 shot, the government announced Sunday, marking another milestone in the nation’s largest-ever vaccination campaign but leaving more work to do to convince skeptical Americans to roll up their sleeves.
Eleven dead, 98 injured after train derails in Egypt
Published On: April 19, 2021 08:38 AM NPT By: Reuters
EGYPT, April 19: Eleven people were killed and 98 injured on Sunday in a train accident in Egypt's Qalioubia province north of Cairo, the health ministry said in a statement.
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