The Malaysian government has increased the duration of its Labour Recalibration Programme after thousands of migrant workers failed to take advantage of the opportunity due to the global coronavirus pandemic.
More than 230 deaths have been reported in British Columbia since Friday as a historic heat wave brought record-high temperatures, officials said Tuesday. The province’s chief coroner called it an
Twelve people died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital’s (RMCH) Covid-19 unit in 24 hours till Wednesday morning. Of the deceased, five were Covid-19 positive and rests were suspected cases, said
Scores of deaths in Canada’s Vancouver area are likely linked to a grueling heat wave, authorities said Tuesday, as the country recorded its highest ever temperature amid scorching conditions that
Afghanistan risks sliding into civil war as the last American troops withdraw from the country, a top US commander has said. Fighting has surged since the US began leaving last
Amid countries’ struggle to contain the pandemic, the global Covid-19 caseload is fast approaching the grim milestone of 181 million. The total caseload and fatalities from the virus stand at
The Australian state of New South Wales has reported 30 new Covid cases on the second day of Greater Sydney’s two-week lockdown. An expanded lockdown now covers 5m people in
Former policeman Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison on Friday for the murder of African American George Floyd, the killing that sparked America’s biggest
A Somali man killed three people and left five others seriously injured in an “incredibly brutal” knife rampage in the southern German city of Wuerzburg. The 24-year-old suspect staged the
A shootout between suspected drug cartels left 18 people dead Friday in Mexico, a government official said. The gunfight happened in a remote area of Zacatecas state in the country’s