New York: On the eve of a major US holiday, the fiery explosion of a car on a bridge to Canada has put the two neighboring nations on high alert and shut down bridges and train services between them. Two people in the vehicle heading towards Canada were killed in the crash before noon Wednesday.
Jerusalem: The Israeli military on Saturday denied that it ordered an evacuation of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza after Palestinian media reports said the army had asked everyone to leave the medical complex within an hour’s time. In a post in Hebrew on X, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had “responded rto the.
Wellington: The New Zealand government is contributing an additional NZ$5 million ($3 million) to support the response to urgent humanitarian needs in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said on Saturday. This brings New Zealand’s total contribution to the humanitarian response to the Gaza conflict so far to NZ$10 million, reports.
Beijing: China expanded its visa-free transit policy on Friday to include citizens from Norway for a 72/144-hour stay, bringing the total number of applicable countries to 54. Citizens from the 54 countries are exempted from visa requirements during transit for 72 or 144 hours when heading for a third nation, said the National Immigration Administration.
Perth: The Department of Health in Western Australia (WA) confirmed on Friday that the mask-wearing requirement would be strengthened across the state’s public hospitals in response to rising COVID-19 cases. According to a statement by WA Health, from November 20, staff and patients must wear surgical masks in high-risk clinical areas, including hematology, oncology, organ.
San Francisco: From Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to Apple chief Tim Cook, top tech honchos and corporate leaders met Chinese President Xi Jinping during a gala dinner here during his state visit. Xi received standing ovations from more than 300 corporate leaders and top officials, including Cook and Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman. Musk on.
Ankara: Twenty-seven patients from Gaza and their 13 attendants, who passed through the Rafah border crossing from the Gaza Strip to Egypt, arrived in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Thursday. “Twenty-seven patients from Gaza, most of whom are cancer patients who need urgent treatment, are in our country,” Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca told.
Canberra: Australia’s unemployment rate increased by 0.2 percentage points in October, new data revealed on Thursday. According to official labour market data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the unemployment rate in October was 3.7 per cent, up from 3.5 per cent in September, reports Xinhua news agency. It marked the 17th consecutive.
London: In a big setback to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government, the UK’s Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected plans to send migrants to Rwanda as unlawful as it would put them at risk. Issuing a unanimous judgement, the country’s highest court said that the policy would put asylum seekers at “risk of ill-treatment” as they.
Hanoi: Torrential rains since early this week left three people missing in the central region of Vietnam, according to the latest report of the country’s National Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control on Wednesday. Nearly 40 people, including those from military forces, police, and local flood and storm prevention teams, have been mobilised.
Tel Aviv: The Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Tuesday said that it was forced to bury the dead bodies of people who died following Israel bombing inside the hospital premises. The hospital, in a statement, said that the bodies were in a state of decomposition and hence they could not keep it and all the.
