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MOSCOW: Oleg Gridnev, the Deputy Health Minister of Russia, said that country will register the first vaccine against the coronavirus on August 12.

MARYLAND: The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated the coronavirus cases worldwide passed 19 million Thursday, with 702,642 people have died from the disease.

BEIRUT: The before and after satellite images of the Tuesday’s Beirut explosion site show a massive crater at Beirut’s port in Lebanon.

BEIRUT: At least 78 people have died and 3,700 are injured in the blast at Lebanon’s Beirut, said Lebanon Health Ministry.

SINGAPORE: 61-year-old Dedar Singh Gill, an Indian-origin judicial commissioner and intellectual property expert in Singapore was sworn in as a judge of the city-state’s High Court.

FINLAND: Finland’s PM Sanna Marin, 34, on Sunday announced that she married Markus Raikkonen in a ceremony attended by couple’s family and closest friends. Finland’s government said on its website that the wedding took place at Kesaranta, the PM’s official residence. The world’s youngest-ever Prime Minister Marin and Raikkonen have …

LONDON: An Indian-origin dancer has been honoured by UK PM Boris Johnson with the Points of Light award for providing free online bhangra classes to people during the pandemic.

An Indonesian man shared a video of himself sitting and doing nothing for over two hours.

DUBAI: Indian expatriates in the UAE can now get their passports renewed in just two days with a new operating procedure taking effect from August, according to a media report.

BEIJING: China on Thursday reported 127 cases of coronavirus, marking the third consecutive day that the country has reported more than 100 coronavirus cases.