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Coronavirus | Pak bans travel from India for two weeks amid record spike in cases

India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases crossed the 1.50-crore mark with around 25 lakh cases being added in just 15 days

Saudi activist wins top Europe rights award

Loujain al-Hathloul has been recognised for championing women’s rights.

Coronavirus | Britain adds India to COVID-19 travel 'red list' amid 103 new variant cases in U.K.

The move came hours after Downing Street had announced the cancellation of Prime Minister Boris Mr. Johnson’s visit to India

NASA's Mars helicopter makes history with successful flight on Red Planet

During NASA's own coverage of the event livestreamed from JPL headquarters, NASA also displayed the first images from the flight.

Twitter to check algorithm after image-cropping bias accusation

The social network said it will work with several engineers, researchers and data scientists to assess ‘unintentional’ harm in the algorithms

Iran nuclear talks enter ‘drafting stage’

Solutions are still far away, but we agree on specific steps towards goal: Mikhail Ulyanov

Alexei Navalny sent to prison hospital in Russia

Move comes after EU, U.S. warn Moscow over his failing health, with doctors saying he could die ‘any minute’.

U.K. PM Boris Johnson calls off trip, expresses sympathy for India’s COVID-19 crisis

Officials in London and Delhi decided by “mutual agreement” to call off Boris Johnson's trip

Radical Islamist party frees 11 Pakistani police hostages

Supporters of the hardline Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan party attacked a police station near their rallying point and on April 18 took the policemen hostage

The 'metaverse' bet: crypto-rich investors snap up virtual real estate

Online environments are going to be "very very big", regardless of fluctuations in the price of bitcoin, said Frederic Chesnais, head of Atari's blockchain division and the company's former CEO

China's Ant explores ways for Jack Ma to exit as Beijing piles pressure

The company hoped Ma's stake, worth billions of dollars, could be sold to existing investors in Ant or its e-commerce affiliate Alibaba Group Holding Ltd without involving any external entity, one of the sources with company ties said

Pakistan foreign minister says no plan to meet Indian counterpart in UAE

Pakistan's foreign minister has welcomed mediation efforts by the United Arab Emirates between his country and India but told UAE newspaper Khaleej

External Affairs Minister Jaishankar returns after UAE trip

MEA silent on third party mediation but Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Qureshi talks of ‘sittings’

Two die as Tesla with 'no driver' crashes in Texas

Deputies said the car was travelling fast and failed to navigate a turn before running off the road, hitting a tree, and bursting into flames.

Hong Kong bans flights from India, Pakistan and the Philippines for 2 weeks

This comes after the N501Y mutant COVID-19 strain was detected in the city for the first time.

Israeli police clash with Palestinian crowd in Jerusalem

Similar clashes have occurred nightly since the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began last week.

Czechs to discuss alleged Russian link to 2014 blast with European Union

The central European country expelled 18 Russian embassy staff on Saturday and said that investigations linked Russian intelligence to the explosion, which killed two people.

Coronavirus | Canada’s Trudeau mobilizes federal workers in Toronto and rest of Ontario

The government will also seek to boost rapid testing, especially for essential workers, Trudeau said.

Israel opposition head calls for unity government

Netanyahu’s Likud party emerged from March 23 polls with 30 seats, making it the largest in Israel’s 120-member parliament.

Macron admits to error over green transition

“We have to increase the price of carbon and we have to help this transition to happen for entrepreneurs and our households,” he said.

Coronavirus | Half of U.S. adults have had at least one Covid vaccine dose: CDC

Around 84 million adults are fully vaccinated — 32.5% of the adult population.

11 killed, 98 injured in train crash north of Cairo

Train wrecks and mishaps are common in Egypt, where the railway system has a history of badly maintained equipment and mismanagement.

Five wounded in rocket attack on Iraq base hosting Americans

The rockets targeted Balad airbase north of Baghdad, and two crashed into a dormitory and a canteen of U.S. company Sallyport: source

White House: No guarantees about Afghanistan’s future post-pullout

President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that the United States will withdraw its remaining 2,500 troops from Afghanistan by September 11.

Daughter of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says he needs a doctor

“Allow a doctor to see my dad,” Navalny’s daughter Dasha, a student at Stanford University, wrote on Twitter.

Israel and Greece sign record defence deal

.The agreement includes a $1.65 billion contract for the establishment and operation of a training centre for the Hellenic Air Force by Israeli defence contractor Elbit Systems over a 22-year period.

Macron says nations must ‘define red lines’ with Russia

“We will never accept new military operations on Ukrainian soil.” The West must demonstrate diplomacy and credibility in making that point, he said.

Protesters take seven officials hostage in Pakistan

The protests have paralysed cities and led to the deaths of six policemen

Saudi, Iranian officials hold talks to patch up relations

Ties were frozen after attack on Kingdom’s embassy in 2016

Variant from India being probed: U.K.

LONDON, April 18 (Reuters) - British health officials areinvestigating a COVID-19 variant originating in India but as yetthey do not have enough

Call for protests amid Navalny’s ‘failing health’

He is on a hunger strike in prison

Myanmar shadow govt. wants invite for ASEAN crisis talks

It urges foreign leaders not to formally recognise the junta

3 dead, 2 wounded in shooting at Wisconsin tavern

Three people were killed and two were left wounded early on April 18 in a shooting at a tavern in southeastern Wisconsin, sheriff's officials

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