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Israel says its troops have entered Gaza Strip

"Israeli planes and troops on the ground are carrying out an attack in the Gaza Strip," the army said in a brief message.

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Rockets fired towards Israel from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 14.

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Covid-19 | U.S. allows fully vaccinated people to forgo masks indoors

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The CDC guidance still calls for wearing masks in crowded indoor settings like buses, planes, hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters.

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The CDC and the Biden administration have faced pressure to ease restrictions on fully vaccinated people — those who are two weeks past their last required COVID-19 vaccine dose — in part to highlight the benefits of getting the shot.

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Three rockets fired from southern Lebanon toward Israel

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The hostilities escalated despite intense mediation efforts by Egyptian negotiators who held in-person talks with both sides.

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This picture taken from Sderot in southern Israel on the border with the Gaza Strip, shows rockets fired from Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system, on May 13, 2021.

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Oli reappointed as Nepal PM as Opposition fails to prove majority to form government

However, as per rules, Mr. Oli is required to win the vote of confidence within 30 days from the date of the appointment.

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K P Sharma Oli was reappointed as Nepal Prime Minister on May 13, 2021 after the Opposition parties, riddled by factionalism, failed to secure majority seats in Parliament to form a new government.

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Rockets fired towards Israel from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 14.

Israel says its troops have entered Gaza Strip

The CDC and the Biden administration have faced pressure to ease restrictions on fully vaccinated people — those who are two weeks past their last required COVID-19 vaccine dose — in part to highlight the benefits of getting the shot.

Covid-19 | U.S. allows fully vaccinated people to forgo masks indoors

This picture taken from Sderot in southern Israel on the border with the Gaza Strip, shows rockets fired from Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system, on May 13, 2021.

Three rockets fired from southern Lebanon toward Israel

K P Sharma Oli was reappointed as Nepal Prime Minister on May 13, 2021 after the Opposition parties, riddled by factionalism, failed to secure majority seats in Parliament to form a new government.

Oli reappointed as Nepal PM as Opposition fails to prove majority to form government

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Deep impact: Palestinians walking past the ruins of a building destroyed in Israeli air strike in Gaza city on Thursday.

Israel-Palestinian fighting escalates

Maldivian government security officers escort an ambulance carrying former president Mohamed Nasheed following his discharge from a hospital in Male, Maldives, on Thursday, May 13, 2021.

Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed flown to Germany for treatment

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A man gets vaccinated in Ohio as vaccine eligibility expands to anyone over the age of 16 at the Bradfield Community Center through Health Partners of Western Ohio in Lima, Ohio, U.S.

U.S. governor unrolls $1 million lottery prizes to encourage COVID-19 vaccination AP

Beginning May 26, adults who have received at least one vaccine dose may enter a lottery that will provide a $1 million prize each Wednesday for five weeks.

Taiwan tightens restrictions after COVID-19 cases rise

American India Foundation raises $25 million for COVID-19 assistance to India

Bangladesh receives 5,00,000 doses of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine as gift

Coronavirus | World could have prevented COVID catastrophe: expert panel

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Tamils’ war memorial in Sri Lanka’s Mullaitivu found vandalised
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Biden hopes ‘violence will end sooner than later’
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Israel says its troops have entered Gaza Strip

Riyadh frees Bin Laden patriarch

Buddhist monks in Myanmar split on anti-junta movement

Covid-19 | U.S. allows fully vaccinated people to forgo masks indoors

Three rockets fired from southern Lebanon toward Israel

Oli reappointed as Nepal PM as Opposition fails to prove majority to form government

Tamils’ war memorial in Sri Lanka’s Mullaitivu found vandalised

‘Height of indecency’, says TNA in a statement

Biden hopes ‘violence will end sooner than later’

My expectation and hope is that this will be closing down sooner than later, but Israel has a right to defend itself when you have thousands of rockets flying into your territory, says Mr. Biden

Israel-Palestinian fighting escalates

Riots flare up between far-right Jews and Arabs; flight diverted after rockets target airport near Tel Aviv

Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed flown to Germany for treatment

Spotlight on religious extremism, impunity in the Indian Ocean archipelago

Italy fines Google $123 million for abuse of dominant position

The regulator said Google did not allow JuicePass, an EV services app from Enel X, to operate on Android Auto - which allows apps to be used while driving - unfairly limiting its use while favouring Google Maps.

Samsung boosts non-memory chip investment to $151 billion as S.Korea offers bigger tax breaks

Some 153 chip companies including global No.1 and 2 memory chip makers Samsung and SK Hynix already have plans to invest a combined 510 trillion won or more between this year and 2030.

Tesla suspends vehicle purchases using Bitcoin

Tesla began accepting the world’s most-traded digital currency as payment in February this year

Biden cybersecurity order mandates new rules for govt software

The executive order's initiatives include the creation of a organization that would investigate major hacks along the lines of National Transportation Safety Board inquiries that are launched after plane crashes.

US hits China and others for repressing religious freedom

The condemnation was similar to that lodged by the Trump administration, which had been criticised for prioritising religious freedom over other rights

E.U. countries urged to halt non-essential travel from India

Countries should apply an "emergency brake" on non-essential travel from India, it said in a statement.

U.S. governor unrolls $1 million lottery prizes to encourage COVID-19 vaccination

Beginning May 26, adults who have received at least one vaccine dose may enter a lottery that will provide a $1 million prize each Wednesday for five weeks.

Taiwan tightens restrictions after COVID-19 cases rise

Early and effective prevention steps succeeded in shielding the country from the worst of the pandemic, with just 1,231 infections reported so far.

American India Foundation raises $25 million for COVID-19 assistance to India

AIF was founded in the aftermath of the Gujarat earthquake at the initiative of the then U.S. President Bill Clinton and the then Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Antonio Guterres appoints Martin Griffiths as UN humanitarian chief

The UN chief said said Mr. Griffiths will continue to serve as the UN's top envoy for Yemen “until a transition has been announced

Blinken calls Netanyahu, backs Israel's defense

Both Israelis and Palestinians have the right to live in safety and security, the U.S. Secretary of State said.

Myanmar military court gives reporter 3-year prison term

He is the first victim of a recently revised provision in the Penal Code that critics charge criminalises free speech.

Biden says spoke to Netanyahu, hopes Israel violence ending 'sooner than later'

The Secretary of State had earlier announced that Hady Amr, the State Department official in charge of Israeli and Palestinian affairs, was leaving on Wednesday to the region to urge "de-escalation of violence."

Taliban seizes district on outskirts of Kabul

The Taliban has seized a district from the Afghan government forces on the outskirts of Kabul, ahead of a three-day ceasefire agreed between the

New Hamas rocket barrage after Israel levels another Gaza tower

The volley of 130 rockets, which killed a six-year-old boy in southern Israel and set off air raid warnings up to Tel Aviv, was a response to the destruction of Gaza City's Al-Farouk tower.

Hong Kong legislature approves China loyalty laws

Forty legislators approved the new law with just one dissenting vote in a chamber cleared of Opposition members late last year ahead of the current political overhaul

Israel-Palestinian clashes trigger fears of ‘full-scale war’

At least 53 die in Gaza, 6 in Israel

Republicans oust Trump critic from leadership

Liz Cheney refused to embrace false claim that Democrats stole 2020 poll

Bangladesh receives 5,00,000 doses of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine as gift

Foreign Minister Abdul Momen said that Bangladesh seeks to procure 40 to 50 million doses of the Chinese vaccine on a commercial basis.

Coronavirus | World could have prevented COVID catastrophe: expert panel

The IPPPR said a series of bad decisions meant COVID-19 went on to kill at least 3.3 million people so far and devastate the global economy

Ericsson to pay $97 mln to Nokia for after settling damages claim

Ericsson said on Wednesday the settlement would impact operating profit (EBIT) by 80 million euros and cash flow by 26 million euros in the second quarter.

Amazon wins court fight against $303 mln EU tax order

The Amazon ruling is a setback for European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who has aggressively used the bloc's state aid rules to tackle sweetheart tax deals between multinationals and EU countries

U.S. removes Xiaomi from blacklist, reversing late China jab by Trump

The department had designated the firm as having ties to China's military and placed it on a list that would restrict U.S. investment in the company

Bangladesh rebuffs China on Quad warning

As a sovereign country, Bangladesh will determine the course of its foreign policy in the interest of its people, says Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen

Sri Lanka imposes night travel ban to check surge in COVID-19 cases

The ban, from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. daily, will come into place from tonight until May 31, Army chief Gen Shavendra Silva, said.

News Analysis | Did Israel misjudge Hamas’s response?

Hamas seems to be prepared for this moment, given the way it is firing rockets.

Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter

Twitter and Facebook function as formidable — and one-sided — global megaphones for China’s ruling Communist Party, helping to amplify messaging broadly set by central authorities

COVID-19 crisis | India opened up prematurely, says Dr. Fauci

Dr. Anthony Fauci told the Senate Health, Education, Labour and Pensions Committee during a hearing on Tuesday on the COVID-19 response.

Iran state TV says Ahmadinejad will run in presidential race

Broadcast footage showed Ahmadinejad marching accompanied by supporters to a registration center at the Interior Ministry before filling out forms

German regulator bans Facebook from processing WhatsApp user data

The regulatory action has opened a new front in Germany over Facebook's privacy policies, with its national antitrust regulator waging a legal battle over data practices it says amount to an abuse of market dominance

Judge dismisses NRA bankruptcy case in blow to gun group

“The Court believes the NRA's purpose in filing bankruptcy is less like a traditional bankruptcy case.”

India’s decision on 5G trials a sovereign one: U.S.

The DoT last week approved applications of telecom companies Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and MTNL to conduct 5G trials but none of them will be using technologies of Chinese entities.

Coronavirus | Indian COVID-19 variant found in 44 countries: WHO

Outside of India, it said that Britain had reported the largest number of COVID-19 cases caused by the variant

Working closely with India on COVID-19 crisis: U.S.

‘Helping India respond to this latest wave is humane and is in the US' national interest’

Germany halts Facebook sharing WhatsApp data

A German regulator on Tuesday slapped a three-month ban on Facebook collecting user data from WhatsApp accounts and referred the case to an EU

Saudi announces over 100 projects for cash-strapped Pak during Imran’s visit

Saudi Arabia has announced 118 humanitarian projects worth over $123 million for cash-strapped Pakistan in food security, health, education and

WHO reviews Seychelles COVID-19 data after fully vaccinated people test positive

Around 37% of those testing positive has been fully inoculated.

EU suing AstraZeneca to get 90 million vaccine doses before July

The demand stems from a row between Brussels and AstraZeneca over a shortfall of tens of millions of vaccine doses the company was meant to have delivered to the EU since the beginning of the year

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