Forty-six people from the ethnic Pygmy group were killed -- some of them decapitated -- on Wednesday in a suspected militant attack in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, according to an NGO official based in the central African country. [...]

Dutch government resigns over child welfare fraud scandal

The Dutch government has resigned amid a scandal that saw thousands of families wrongly accused of child welfare fraud. [...]

UK hotels open to Covid-19 patients as hospitals overwhelmed

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UAE reports 3,432 Covid cases, 3,118 recoveries, 7 deaths

More than 23 million tests have been carried out across the country so far. [...]

Covid vaccine in UAE: 131,939 people vaccinated in 24 hours

Authorities in the UAE had recently announced that some categories of residents can get the free Covid-19 vaccine at home. [...]

Expo 2020 pavilion opens soon; ticket prices announced

Walk through the roots of a forest at Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion. [...]

PHL COVID-19 cases reach 498,691

(Eagle News)–COVID-19 cases in the country reached 498,691 on Saturday, January 16, after the Department of Health reported 2058 additional cases. Of the total cases, the DOH said 28674 were active. Of these, 84.7 percent were mild, 7.7 percent asymptomatic, 4.6 percent critical, 2.6 percent severe, and 0.41 percent moderate. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported today were Cavite and Rizal with 96 each, Leyte with 92, Quezon City with 85 and Mt. […] [...]

Nine more are QC residents in Emirates flight boarded by B.1.1.7 variant-positive case

QC isolating 143 individuals in all, including contacts of “close contacts” (Eagle News) — Quezon City mayor Joy Belmonte said they are also contact-tracing and testing nine other Quezon City residents who were listed in the manifesto of the Emirates flight boarded by the COVID-19 patient who was later found to have the so-called UK strain, or variant B.1.1.7. They are among the 143 individuals that they have already traced as contacts of the […] [...]

China to donate one million Sinovac vaccine doses to Cambodia: PM

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AFP) — China will donate one million doses of its Sinovac coronavirus vaccine to Cambodia, the kingdom’s strongman premier Hun Sen has said, thanking “friend” Beijing for its generosity. Cambodia has long been a staunch ally of Beijing, receiving billions of dollars in soft loans and investment from China. While many countries reacted early in the pandemic by closing its borders to Chinese travellers, Hun Sen refused, and even travelled to Beijing […] [...]

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