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World hits record number of COVID-19 cases in a week
Coronavirus cases surge around world, raising testing and quarantine fears particularly in Europe and the United States.
Published On 29 Dec 2021
Year ahead: China’s economic shift may yield winners and losers
Nations that rely heavily on China’s raw material demand, and those seeking investment, could be in for a shock.
Published On 29 Dec 2021
Christians on edge in India’s Karnataka ruled by Modi’s BJP
At least 42 attacks on Christians and their places of worship in 2021 in southern state as it mulls anti-conversion law.
Published On 29 Dec 2021
Novak Djokovic withdraws from ATP Cup in Sydney
The announcement comes amid speculation over Serbian tennis champion’s vaccination status ahead of Australian Open.
Published On 29 Dec 2021

Small investors in Thailand are buying up cryptocurrency-mining rigs as the axe falls on China’s crypto-mines.

In first trip to Israel in years, Mahmoud Abbas and Benny Gantz discuss ‘security, civil matters’ in Gantz’s home.

Nearly 800 Omicron cases reported as daily COVID infections rise by 9,195 cases – a 44 percent spike from Tuesday.

At least 38 people die after shafts collapsed at the Darsaya mine in West Kordofan.

With one journalist dead and dozens behind bars, Myanmar is now one of the world’s worst places to be a media worker.

Infection rates are surging in many parts of the world, fuelled by the spread of the highly-infectious Omicron variant.

Democrat leader, who helped secure Obama’s signature health care law, died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

The close space encounters with China’s space station are the latest sign of dangerous overcrowding in space.

Staff of pro-democracy news website Stand News accused of ‘conspiracy to publish seditious publication’.

Case against four members of far-right group is focus of the US Justice Department’s sprawling probe into Capitol riot.

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