Global Covid-19 cases top 181 million
The total caseload and fatalities stand at 181,388,210 and 3,928,804, respectively, as of Tuesday morning, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Pro-Iran militias attack US base in Syria after air strikes
Pro-Iranian militias exchanged fire with a US-led coalition in eastern Syria on Monday, a war monitor and the coalition said, in an escalation after US air strikes in Iraq and Syria the previous night.
France to legalise IVF for lesbians after two-year debate
Lesbian couples and single women in France are set to celebrate a milestone on Tuesday when parliament finally passes a bill giving them access to fertility treatment for the first time.
UN Security Council confronts growing threat of cyber attacks
The UN Security Council on Tuesday will hold its first formal public meeting on cybersecurity, addressing the growing threat of hacks to countries’ key infrastructure, an issue Joe Biden recently raised with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
Protesters clash with Palestinian security forces
Palestinian protesters clashed with Palestinian security forces in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday, AFP reporters said, the third day of demonstrations sparked by an activist’s death in custody.
UK health secretary resigns after Covid-19 breach
UK health secretary Matt Hancock resigned on Saturday following revelations he broke government coronavirus restrictions during an affair with a close aide, with former finance minister Sajid Javid taking up the role.
Global Covid-19 case reaching 181 million
The total caseload and fatalities from the virus stand at 180,726,834 and 3,915,760 respectively as of Sunday morning, as per Johns Hopkins University.
6 troops killed, 15 UN peacekeepers wounded in Mali attacks
The UN said on Twitter that an evacuation was under way after a car bomb struck a temporary base near Tarkint, in the lawless north of Mali.
Russian forces confront British warship in Black Sea military encounter
Russia says one of its warplanes dropped bombs and a patrol boat fired warning shots to turn back a British destroyer it claims entered into its territorial waters in the Black Sea.
Antivirus software pioneer McAfee found dead in Spanish jail
The 75-year-old was found dead in his cell in the Brians 2 penitentiary near Barcelona ‘apparently from suicide’, a spokeswoman for the prison system in the northeastern Catalonia region said.
