For the past few days, thousands of trucks and their drivers have been stuck on the roads, on both sides of the UK’s border, due to the sudden travel restrictions imposed there because of the spread of the new strain of COVID-19. The truck drivers, who are from across Europe, were eying to reach their …
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The UK has detected two cases of another new variant of coronavirus, the health secretary Matt Hancock says. The cases in London and north west England are contacts of people who travelled to South Africa, where the variant was discovered. File Travel restrictions with South Africa have been imposed. Anyone who has travelled there in the past fortnight, and anyone they …
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A year after the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic that has so far infected nearly 95 lakh individuals and claimed 1.4 lakh lives in India, a concerted effort from China is under way to shift the blame for the origin of the coronavirus from the wet markets of Wuhan province to other countries, including India. The country appears to be stepping …
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December 16, a date that has its own role in history. It has seen some major events take place that shook us to our core and changed the world we live in. 3 major events in 3 countries in 3 separate years had long-lasting effects on the way we think. None of them will be forgotten in a hurry. Jump …
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A 31-year-old woman has been slammed by her mother-in-law for tattooing one of her twins so she could tell which boy was which, as per a TNN report. The mother explained on Reddit that the tattoo would make it easier to inject Jack, who was born with a condition that needs weekly medication. Though she gave her reasons, her mother-in-law …
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For the first time in the course of the coronavirus pandemic, the United States reported more than 3,100 deaths in a single day, according to a Washington Post analysis. It is also the first time that US deaths surpassed the number of Americans killed on 9/11, a frequent comparison for the daily tragedies that the nation faces as government failures to test and …
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PlayStation 5 has hit the markets but due to high demand, it is not available everywhere. The console was released on November 12 and has sold more units than both Xbox Series X and S units. The demand is out of this work and games all over the world are doing their best to get their hands on it. People …
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French rescuers needed extreme measures to evacuate a man with morbid obesity from his flat after he could not move inside his house due to an accident in 2019, as per a report in Reuters. Around 50 rescuers and a crane got involved in the operation. With an estimated weight between 250 and 300 kilos, “Alain P.” could not move …
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A ship management company is negotiating to free three Greek sailors kidnapped by pirates off the Nigerian coast, Athens’ Merchant Navy Ministry said as per a report in AFP. Three were snatched from the vessel Stelios K after pirates attacked it on November 16. Now Royal Ship Management, the owner, is in talks to get the hostages released, the ministry …
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Donald Trump has lost and it seems only he does not realise it. It’s been almost a month since Joe Biden beat him in the US Presidential Election and will be sworn in as the country’s leader on January 20, 2021. While Trump has agreed to the transition, albeit unhappily, he still has not conceded. To him, he won the …
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