Spanish mountaineer Sergi Mingote has died while climbing K2, the world's second highest summit, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Saturday. [...]

Ugandan President Museveni wins re-election in vote his rival says was rigged

Uganda's longtime leader Yoweri Museveni has been re-elected for a sixth term amid allegations of fraud and lack of transparency around the vote count. [...]

Australian Open: 47 players In quarantine after positive Covid-19 tests on two charter flights

Preparations for the Australian Open hit a major stumbling block on Saturday after 47 players were told they couldn't train or practice after some passengers on two charter planes arriving in Melbourne returned positive Covid-19 test results. [...]

Covid: UAE vaccinated 84,852 people in last 24 hours

The UAE's vaccine administration rates are just second behind Israel globally. [...]

UAE fog: 24 traffic accidents recorded in 3 hours in Dubai

The centre also handled 1,810 emergency calls during the same time period today. [...]

UAE reports 3,453 Covid cases, 3,268 recoveries, 5 deaths

More than 23.4 million tests have been carried out across the country so far. [...]

China to donate 500,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to PHL

(Eagle News) — China has pledged to donate 500,000 vaccine doses to the Philippines, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. In a statement, the DFA said China’s State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced the Secretary of China’s intention in a courtesy call to Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Saturday, January 16. The pledge was apart from China’s grant of 500 million Chinese renminbi to “finance livelihood projects, infrastructure facilities, feasibility studies for […] [...]

DFA reports 10 more COVID-19 recoveries among overseas Filipinos

(Eagle News) — Ten more Filipinos abroad have recovered from COVID-19. The Department of Foreign Affairs said with the additional recoveries, the COVID-19 recovery total among overseas Filipinos rose to 8627. Three additional COVID-19 cases pushed the total to 13543. No additional COVID-19 deaths were reported among overseas Filipinos abroad, which means the death toll remains at 935. “Compared to last week’s percentages, the total number of COVID-19 recoveries and fatalities decreased to 63.70% and […] [...]

18 more police personnel recover from COVID-19

(Eagle News) — Eighteen more police personnel have recovered from COVID-19. The Philippine National Police said with the additional recoveries, the PNP COVID-19 total rose to 9062. Sixty-one additional cases, however, pushed the PNP COVID-19 total to 9525. Of these, 435 were active. No additional deaths were reported. The PNP COVID-19 death toll then remains at 28. The government has said uniformed personnel–including policemen–are among the priorities in a COVID-19 national vaccination program. The Food […] [...]