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Boris Johnson announces new tighter curbs for London, parts of England
The planned relaxation of coronavirus rules for Christmas has been scrapped for a large part of southeast England, and cut to one day for rest of the region, Xinhua news agency quoted Johnson said at a virtual press conference at Downing Street on Saturday evening.
Nepal to issue licenses for mountaineering guides for 1st time
To date, based on the recommendation of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, an institution comprising several stakeholders in the mountaineering sector, the government had allowed the guides to travel with the mountaineers.
Twitter declares Joe Biden as winner on Donald Trump's own tweets
One such label was seen on Trump's latest tweet that read: "He didn't win the Election. He lost all 6 Swing States, by a lot. They then dumped hundreds of thousands of votes in each one, and got caught. Now Republican politicians have to fight so that their great victory is not stolen. Don't be weak fools!"
2nd Deputy PM of Uganda Ali Kirunda Kivejinj dies of Covid-19, President Yoweri Museveni announces
Addressing his 2021-2026 re-election campaign rally in the western city of Hoima, Museveni said on Saturday that Kivejinja who had been admitted at Mulago National Referral Hospital intensive care unit succumbed to the virus.
Anti-terrorism forces kill 206 IS militants in Iraq this year
Backed by Iraqi and international coalition aircraft, the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) special operations tactical units carried out 253 operations against the extremist group so far this year. The CTS's cyber-security teams also managed to "track down 26,280 accounts of terrorist gangs on social media platforms and instant messaging sites".
Devastating 2020 US wildfire season to go down in history
In 2020, an astonishing 52,113 fires burned close to 9 million acres across the nation, and claimed 53 lives and destroyed 6,500 structures. It was a record-setting year for devastation in numerable categories, and overall acreage almost doubled the land burned in 2019.
US reports all-time high daily Covid-19 cases; accounts for world's highest number of cases, deaths
As of Sunday morning, the US still accounts for world's highest number of cases and deaths at 17,631,293 and 316,006, respectively. The soaring cases, deaths, hospitalisations come amid massive vaccine rollout in the country.
French President Emmanuel Macron's condition 'stable' after Covid-19 diagnosis
Macron started working in self-isolation from an official residence outside Paris on December 17 after the diagnosis established by "RT-PCR tests carried out as soon as the first symptoms appeared", said his office.
Fugitive Nirav Modi's brother charged in $2.6 million fraud in New York
Announcing the charges against Nehal Modi on Friday, the prosecutor, Cy Vance, said, "While diamonds maybe forever, this flawed scheme was not, and now Mr Modi will face the clarity of a New York Supreme Court indictment."
Mysterious structure set up at Pyongyang square: Report
In its report released on Friday, the Washington-based 38 North website revealed that a small building surrounded by a high wall has been built in Kim Il-sung Square "right across the street from the viewing platform used by Kim Jong-un and party officials during parade", reports Yonhap News Agency.
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