Thailand Registers 6,230 New COVID-19 Cases, 41 More Deaths

BANGKOK, Jul 4 (NNN-TNA) – Thailand yesterday reported its highest daily rise in new COVID-19 cases in 47 days, at 6,230, while deaths rose by 41. The country’s tally now stands at 277,151, and the death toll has reached 2,182, according to the country’s Centre for the COVID-19 Situation Administration…

Brunei Reports One Imported COVID-19 Case

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Jul 4 (NNN-ANN) – Brunei reported an imported COVID-19 case yesterday, bringing the national tally to 262. According to Brunei’s Ministry of Health, Case 262 is a 48-year-old woman, who arrived in the country from Jakarta, Indonesia, on Jun 27. She started experiencing symptoms of cough, headache…

India’s Opposition Party Urges Joint Parliamentary Probe Into Rafale Aircraft Deal

NEW DELHI, Jul 4 (NNN-PTI) – India’s main opposition Congress party, yesterday, demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe, into the Rafale aircraft deal, saying, it was the only way forward, to find the truth about “corruption” in the purchase of the fighter jets. The party said, Prime Minister, Narendra…

Yemenis Struggle To Survive By Selling “Natural Toothbrushes”

HAJJAH, Yemen, Jul 4 (NNN-XINHUA) – In Yemen, Salvadora Persica, otherwise known as the toothbrush tree, spreads along the Red Sea’s hot and dry coastal plain, where many people use its roots to clean teeth, and thousands of families have tried to sell them as a source of income, even…

New Zealand Reports Seven New Cases Of COVID-19 In Managed Isolation

WELLINGTON, Jul 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) – New Zealand reported seven new cases of COVID-19 in two days, all recent returnees in managed isolation facilities, said the Ministry of Health in a statement today. There was no case in the wider New Zealand community, said the ministry. The number of active cases…

Iranian President Demands U.S. Apology For Downing Iranian Airliner In 1988

TEHRAN, Jul 4 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, criticised, yesterday, the lack of apology from the U.S. government, for more than three decades, for downing an Iranian airliner in 1988. “The U.S. government has to know that it committed a very big crime in the Gulf, in 1988,” Rouhani…

Palestine Extends State Of Emergency Against COVID-19 Delta Variant

RAMALLAH, Jul 4 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestine yesterday extended its state of emergency, to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant in the Palestinian territories. The extension came, after the Palestinian health ministry recorded, last week, 22 new cases of the Delta variant. Yesterday, the ministry reported 83 new COVID-19…

Afghanistan Reports 1,272 New COVID-19 Cases

KABUL, Jul 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Afghanistan’s Public Health Ministry, has registered 1,272 new COVID-19 cases, over the past 24 hours, taking the number of patients infected with the disease to 124,757, in the country. The pandemic has so far claimed 5,199 lives in Afghanistan, including 92 deaths in the past…

Bangladesh Records 6,214 New COVID-19 Cases, 134 More Deaths

DHAKA, Jul 4 (NNN-BSS) – Bangladesh reported 6,214 new COVID-19 cases and 134 new deaths yesterday, taking the tally to 936,256, and death toll to 14,912, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said. The official data showed that 22,687 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, as of…

Four China-Europe Freight Trains Set Off From China Simultaneously

GUANGDONG, Jul 4 (NNN-XINHUA) – Four China-Europe freight trains, packed with containers of goods, set off from China’s Guangdong and Hunan, simultaneously, for central Asia and Europe. The four trains, loaded with 200 containers of goods, are headed to Germany, Russia and Belarus. They are expected to arrive in about…