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Image Source : AP Signage stands at the ready (foreground) in case COVID-19 testing at Barnett Park reaches capacity, as cars wait in line in Orlando. Florida reported 21,683 new cases of COVID-19, the state’s highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic, according to federal health data released ...

Image Source : AP/ REPRESENTATIONAL. Malaysia sees fresh high of over 17,000 daily Covid cases. Malaysia reported 17,786 new Covid-19 infections in the highest daily spike since the outbreak, bringing the national total to 1,113,272, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. Health Ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a ...

Image Source : AP People riding bicycles and scooters wait to cross an intersection during rush hour in Beijing. China and India have missed a U.N. deadline to submit fresh plans for cutting their greenhouse gas emissions in time for the global body to include their pledges in a report ...

Image Source : AP/REPRESENTATIVE Container truck containing 780 bags of imported sugar falls into sea at Karachi port A container truck carrying 780 sugar bags fell into the sea at Karachi port after its brakes failed, but the driver was unhurt. The mishap would cause a loss of millions to ...

Image Source : AP/ REPRESENTATIONAL. Person suspected of starting forest fires in Turkey arrested. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said that Turkey has arrested a person allegedly responsible for starting the ongoing forest fires in the country. “There is one arrestee in Milas. If this is an act of ...

Image Source : AP/REPRESENTATIVE Su-35S fighter jet suffered an engine failure on July 31, 2021 A Su-35S fighter suffered an engine failure in the Khabarovsk Territory in Russia’s far east, but the pilot ejected safely, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday. “On July 31, 2021, during scheduled training flights in ...

Image Source : AP Abdullah Al-Sanad, spokesman of the Health Ministry, said that the Kuwait Airport will allow the return of fully-vaccinated expats starting from August 1 Kuwait’s Ministry of Health announced that the country is preparing to receive expatriates who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 from August 1. In ...

Image Source : AP Member state flags fly outside the United Nations headquarters India will take over the Presidency of the UN Security Council on August 1 and is set to host signature events in three major areas of maritime security, peacekeeping and counterterrorism during the month. “It is a ...

Image Source : AP US to hold rare 2nd lottery for H-1B visa applicants In what can be good news for hundreds of Indian IT professionals seeking the H-1B work visa, the US immigration agency has decided to conduct a rare second lottery for the most sought-after visas to decide on ...

Image Source : AP US President Joe Biden has nominated Indian-American attorney Rashad Hussain as the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. US President Joe Biden has nominated Indian-American attorney Rashad Hussain as the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, the first Muslim to be nominated to the key position, according to ...