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Bangladesh is set to witness the launching of a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign tomorrow as inoculates reached designated government medical warehouses up to the Upazila level. “Everything is set to launch it (campaign) tomorrow,” health services...

POTUS Joe Biden met Monday with a group of Republican senators who are pushing an alternative to his massive Covid-19 relief plan, but no agreement was reached, reports BSS. Biden, who campaigned on restoring bipartisanship in...

Israel says it is transferring 5,000 doses of Covid vaccine to immunise frontline Palestinian health workers. Israel has one of the most advanced vaccination programmes in the world but Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and...

Myanmar’s military seized power on Monday in a coup against the democratically elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party...

American talk show legend Larry King has passed away. He was 87. He died today at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles after losing his fight with coronavirus. A statement posted online by his Ora Media...

Democrat Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday. That marks the end of Republican President Donald Trump’s tumultuous four-year term at the White House. At a glittering ceremony...

The Covid pandemic has caused excess deaths to rise to their highest level since World War Two. There were close to 697,000 deaths in the UK in 2020 – nearly 91,000 more than would be expected...

Congressional Democrats begin their drive to force President Donald Trump from office this week, with a House vote on articles of impeachment expected as early as Wednesday that could make him the only president in U.S....

A Boeing 737 passenger plane carrying 62 people is believed to have crashed into the sea shortly after take-off from Indonesia’s capital Jakarta. The Sriwijaya Air plane lost contact four minutes into its journey to Pontianak...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday announced a six-week lockdown for England’s 56 million people, including the closure of schools, after a surge in coronavirus cases brought warnings that hospitals could soon face collapse. Johnson...