Day: February 10, 2021

England’s 227-run win over India in the first Test of the ongoing four-Test series has kept their hopes alive of making the World Test Championship final scheduled to be held in London in June.

New Zealand employers will receive government payments onwards over the absence of their workers who cannot work from home while awaiting a Covid-19 test result, according to a government statement issued on Monday.

Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday blasted the impeachment case against him as an act of political theater by Democrats, whom they accused of exploiting for their own party’s gain the chaos and trauma of last month’s riot at the US Capitol.

A man who authorities say is a leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group and helped to organise a ring of other extremists and led them in the attack last month at the US Capitol has held a top-secret security clearance for decades and previously worked for the FBI, his attorney.

Iran’s intelligence minister has warned the West that his country could push for a nuclear weapon if crippling international sanctions on Tehran remain in place, state television reported Tuesday.

A string of attacks on Tuesday in Afghanistan killed five government employees and four policemen, officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks.

While saying that accidents do happen, a team of international experts, including those from the World Health Organisation (WHO), investigating the origins of Covid-19 said on Tuesday that laboratory leak of the virus is extremely unlikely.

India and China held bilateral consultations on issues on the agenda of the United Nations Security Council amid the military standoff on the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

India has asked its nationals not to travel to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait via the UAE and get stranded in this country, in view of the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the region.