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Beijing tests 20 million residents amid Omicron outbreak
The Chinese capital started testing all residents of Chaoyang, a bustling district home to the business centre and foreign embassies, in the first of three rounds of testing to be conducted over a five-day period. Residents and office workers formed long lines at makeshift testing centres throughout the day, CNN reported. Nearly 3.7 million tests had been carried out, with more than half a million having returned a negative result, city officials said at a late-night news conference.
Russia warns of nuclear war danger
However, he added that the situation has since deteriorated to the point where there is a real and serious threat. Moscow tried to persuade former US President Donald Trump to recommit to the 1987 statement by the US and Soviet leaders that there can be no winners in a nuclear war, and that such a war should never be fought, Lavrov explained in the interview, RT reported.
Imran calls for another sit-in protest in Islamabad
Imran Khan, while addressing a press conference, said he would be announcing the date of the march in the coming weeks. "I have asked my party members to begin preparations for marching to Islamabad. I have directed party leaders, including those at village level, to prepare for the march for true freedom," he said.
3 Chinese, 1 other killed in terror blast in Karachi varsity campus
As per details, the blast occurred outside the Karachi university campus of IBA (Institute of Business Administration), in a vehicle parked outside the campus building with at least three Chinese nationals and a driver aboard. The killed Chinese nationals include Zhang Xiaoping, director of a Chinese language institute of IBA called Confucius Institute.
Efforts needed to fix broken US immigration system: WH
Press Secretary Jen Psaki said during a briefing, "there needs to be more done to invest in smarter security, to have a more effective asylum processing system. We would welcome any efforts to -- for any elected officials to work with us on that." The White House spokesperson was fielding questions about Title 42, an asylum-limiting policy introduced by the government after the Covis-19 outbreak in 2020, reports Xinhua news agency.
Biden urged to call Shehbaz
Bruce Riedel, one the writers of the Brookings report, was an adviser to the former Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations and is also close to the current Democratic set-up in Washington, says Dawn news. The other writer, Madiha Afzal, is a fellow at the Centre for Middle East policy.
Taliban offers odd-even scheme to educate girls and boys in Afghanistan
According to the new timetable for the universities, three days of the week are allocated for all-female students during which no boy will be attending classes while the remaining three days will be given to boys with no female presence. Based on this decision, Monday, Wednesday and Saturday are allocated for girls and Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday for boys.
WHO calls for continued innovation to fight malaria
On Monday, the WHO announced that over 1 million children have been vaccinated against the disease in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, using the world's first malaria vaccine, reports Xinhua news agency. If widely deployed, it estimates that the vaccine could save the lives of an additional 40,000 to 80,000 African children each year.
Russia expels 40 German diplomats in retaliatory move
The Ministry summoned German Ambassador to Russia Geza Andreas von Geyr on Monday in protest over Berlin's decision to declare 40 Russian diplomats working in Germany "personae non gratae" earlier in April, reports Xinhua news agency. The Ministry called Germany's motives behind the expulsion of the Russian diplomats "unacceptable", and informed the Ambassador that 40 German diplomats would be declared "personae non grata" in a symmetrical response.
As Shanghai struggles with Covid, cases spike in Beijing
Though the media focus shifted from Shanghai to Beijing, there was nothing to point at a let up in the cases in China's financial capital. The hub of international trade and major port has been found grappling on several fronts in echoes of the early days of the epidemic when Wuhan became the epicentre of the affliction.
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