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China's uncontrolled 25-tonne rocket crashes down over Indian Ocean
The US Space Command confirmed in a tweet late on Saturday that China's Long March 5B (CZ-5B) rocket re-entered over the Indian Ocean at 12.45 p.m. China's Manned Space Agency said on the social media platform Weibo that the rocket ree-ntered near the same area around Sarawak and "most of it burned up on its way down".
Democrats clearly divided on Biden's Presidential Run in 2024
Democrats are becoming increasingly vocal in discouraging President Biden from seeking reelection in 2024, but there is disagreement about whether his making a one-term pledge could help the party before the elections this November, says the Washington Examiner in a special report.
Chinese dissident in prison sends wife 'suspect' letter
Zhang Haitao, an outspoken critic of the ruling Chinese Communist Party's treatment of the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group, is serving a 19-year jail term at Xinjiang's Shaya Prison for "incitement to subvert state power" and spying charges, RFA reported.
Biden tests positive for Covid-19 in 'rebound' case: Physician
White House physician Kevin O'Connor wrote in a memo on Saturday that the President Biden "has experienced no reemergence of symptoms, and continues to feel quite well" but will reinitiate strict isolation procedures. "This being the case, there is no reason to reinitiate treatment at this time," he added.
Special court set to indict Shehbaz Sharif in money laundering case
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) booked Shehbaz and his sons Hamza and Suleman in November 2021 under sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Anti Money Laundering Act, Geo News reported. Suleman Shehbaz is absconding in the UK. During the hearing on Saturday, property details of Suleman, who was declared a proclaimed offender in the multi-billion-rupee money laundering case, were submitted in the court, Geo News reported.
US monkeypox cases spike to 5,189
So far the US has the world's highest tally of monkeypox cases. Health experts said due to the testing bottlenecks across the country, cases are likely being undercounted, Xinhua news agency reported. While federal officials weigh a nationwide public health emergency declaration around the monkeypox outbreak, San Francisco and New York state began sounding the alarm on Thursday.
BA.5 sub-variant makes up over 80% new Covid cases in US
The sub-variant accounted for 81.9 per cent of the new infections in the week ending July 23, Xinhua news agency quoted the CDC as saying. Another new sub-variant, BA.4, accounted for 12.9 per cent of new infections, CDC data showed. The two contagious sub-variants now make up over 90 per cent of new infections in the US. Confirmed cases contracted by the two sub-variants have kept increasing since mid-May, CDC data showed.
1 in 5 people fear getting monkeypox in US: Report
The study also revealed that a large majority (69 per cent) knows that monkeypox usually spreads by close contact with an infected person. However, a quarter of those surveyed (26 per cent) are not sure whether that is true or false. "It is important that the public calibrate its concerns to the reality of the risk of Covid-19 and monkeypox and act appropriately," researcher Kathleen Hall Jamieson from the University of Pennsylvania, said in a statement.
Musk slams Wikipedia, says it's 'losing objectivity'
According to The New York Post, Wikipedia blocked users from revising its "recession" page after visitors to the site engaged in a frantic editing war over the definition of the term, which is being disputed by the Biden administration following the latest economic data showing a drop in GDP. A Wikipedia user edited the "recession" page to remove references to the standard definition of the term.
Pakistan concerned at Indian water release
"I think we will have to check, as what you are referring to is very recent, so need to check with our Indus Waters Commission whether such decision to release water or the flood data was shared by the Indian side in a timely manner or not," The Express Tribune quoted Foreign Office spokesperson Asim Iftikhar as saying.
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