OSLO: Rescue workers were still searching yesterday for survivors after a landslide that destroyed homes in a Norwegian village, leaving 10 people missing, including two children. An entire hillside collapsed in Ask, 25 kilometres northeast of the capital Oslo overnight Tuesday, leading to the evacuation of around 1,000 people. Homes […]
Month: December 2020
WASHINGTON: Only about 2.8 million Americans had received a Covid-19 vaccine going into the last day of December, putting the United States far short of the government’s target to vaccinate 20 million people this month. Shots are reaching nursing home residents at an even slower pace than others first in […]
OSLO: All travellers entering Norway will have to take a Covid-19 test within 24 hours of arrival from Jan. 2, the country’s justice ministry said today. To stop the spread of the coronavirus variant first detected in Britain, travellers from any point of origin will need to enter Norway at […]
BEIJING: China has detected its first imported case of the new coronavirus variant that is spreading rapidly around Britain, according to a publication run by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The variant was detected in a 23-year-old female student returning to China from Britain, who was […]
AMSTERDAM: A national lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus in the Netherlands will probably have to last at least until mid-February and even then can only be partially lifted, one of the country’s health chiefs said today. Jaap van Dissel, head of infectious disease control at the National […]
ADEN: Saudi-led coalition warplanes struck targets in Yemen’s Houthi-held capital Sanaa today in retaliation for attacks in the southern port city of Aden the previous day that took place as officials in a government backed by Riyadh arrived there. The coalition accused the Houthi movement, which it has been fighting […]
SYDNEY: Blue and gold fireworks soared into the sky above the Sydney Opera House as they do every year, but the harbour below was a ghost town, a fittingly creepy send-off for a year that will not be missed. No light show will illuminate Beijing from the top of the […]
DUBAI: Iran’s Cabinet yesterday allocated US$150,000 (RM607,178) for the families of each of the 176 victims of a Ukrainian plane shot down in Iranian airspace in January, the official Irna news agency reported. Describing Iran’s handling of the situation as “unacceptable,” Ukraine said the amount of compensation should be negotiated […]
LOS ANGELES: The leading US infectious disease specialist, Dr Anthony Fauci, said yesterday he foresees America achieving enough collective Covid-19 immunity through vaccinations to regain “some semblance of normality” by autumn 2021, despite early setbacks in the vaccine rollout. Fauci made his remarks during an online discussion of the pandemic […]
DHAKA: Bangladesh is set to move a second batch of Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar to the remote island of Bhasan Char in the Bay of Bengal this month, officials said today, despite calls by rights groups not to carry out further relocations. Around 1,000 Rohingya refugees, members of a […]