3,000 Doctors In India’s Madhya Pradesh Resign After Court Terms Their Strike “Illegal”

NEW DELHI, Jun 5 (NNN-PTI) – Nearly 3,000 striking junior doctors, working in six government medical colleges, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, resigned en masse from their posts. The doctors tendered their resignations on Thursday, hours after Madhya Pradesh high court, directed the striking junior doctors in…

Number Of Babies Born In Japan Drops To Record Low In 2020

TOKYO, Jun 5 (NNN-NHK) – The number of babies born in Japan dropped to a record low in 2020, amid the pandemic, while the country’s fertility rate continued a downtrend, the government said. Babies born in 2020 dropped from a year earlier by 24,407, to 840,832, falling below the 900,000-mark…

ASEAN Envoys In Myanmar For Talks On Current Situation

YANGON, Jun 5 (NNN-ANN) – Chairman of Myanmar’s State Administration Council (SAC) and Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, Sen-Gen Min Aung Hlaing, met yesterday with ASEAN envoys, on current Myanmar’s situation, according to a statement from the information team of the SAC. Min Aung Hlaing held talks with visiting Second Minister…

Canada’s Jobless Rate Edges Up In May

OTTAWA, Jun 5 (NNN-XINHUA) – Canada’s unemployment rate edged up 0.1 percent to 8.2 percent in May, Statistics Canada said. The country’s jobless rate rose for a second month under third-wave restrictions, with about 68,000 out of job in May, due to governments’ strengthened lockdown measures, to stem the spread…

Myanmar Imposes Stay-At-Home Order In More Towns Due To COVID-19

YANGON, Jun 5 (NNN-MNA) – Myanmar’s Health and Sports Ministry, imposed a stay-at-home order in four more towns of Chin state, state-run media reported yesterday. The stay-at-home order, which will be in effect today, will be applied to Tedim, Falam, Thantlang and Hakha, after the towns recently saw increasing number…

Thailand’s Phuket To Reopen To Vaccinated Foreign Visitors

BANGKOK, Jun 5 (NNN-TNA) – As Thailand continued to battle its worst wave of COVID-19 outbreak, since the pandemic began, authorities said, the popular resort island of Phuket, remained on track to reopen to vaccinated foreign visitors from July 1. The reopening of a “Phuket Sandbox” programme, was approved yesterday,…

FAO Warns Renewed Desert Locust Infestation In Ethiopia, Somalia

ADDIS ABABA, Jun 5 (NNN-ENA) – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), yesterday warned, swarms of desert locusts are expected to descend on parts of Ethiopia and Somalia. “Despite an earlier decline, the current upsurge prevails in the Horn of Africa, where good rains allowed breeding to continue…

One Turkish Soldier Killed, Another Injured In Northern Syria

ANKARA, Jun 5 (NNN-ANADOLU) – A Turkish soldier was killed and another was injured, in a rocket attack by “terrorists” in northern Syria, Turkey’s defence ministry said yesterday. The attack happened in the Operation Olive Branch region, on Thursday, the ministry said in a statement. The region is neighbouring the…

Iran Reports 9,209 New COVID-19 Cases, 2,954,309 In Total

TEHRAN, Jun 5 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran yesterday reported 9,209 new COVID-19 cases, taking the country’s total infections to 2,954,309. The pandemic has so far claimed 80,813 lives in Iran, up by 155 in the past 24 hours, the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education reported. A total of 2,522,702…

Facebook Suspends Trump’s Accounts For Two Years Under New Rules For Public Figures

SAN FRANCISCO, Jun 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Facebook yesterday suspended former U.S. President Donald Trump, for two years, the maximum penalty under a newly revealed set of rules for suspending public figures, from its former ban, set on Jan 7, 2021. “We are announcing new enforcement protocols, to be applied in…