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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover vehicle Los Angeles: When NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, a robotic astrobiology lab packed inside a space capsule, hits the final stretch of its seven-month journey from Earth this week, it is set to emit a radio alert…

Japan has so far recorded about 410,000 covid cases nationally and 6,772 deaths. Tokyo: Japan’s Health Ministry said on Sunday it has officially approved Pfizer Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine, the first such approval in the country as it steps up efforts to tame a third wave of infections in the run-up…

Children were also asked to stay home from school. Wellington: New Zealand Prime Minsiter Jacinda Ardern on Sunday announced a three-day lockdown in the country’s biggest city Auckland, after three new local COVID-19 cases were reported, the first local infections since late January. Ardern said the level 3 restrictions, which…

Trump administration had said it suspected the virus may have escaped from a Chinese lab. Washington: The White House on Saturday called on China to make available data from the earliest days of the COVID-19 outbreak, saying it has “deep concerns” about the way the findings of the World Health…

Donald Trump was accused of inciting riots in the US Capitol on January 6 which left five people dead. Washington: The ruling Democratic Party has ripped apart Republican senators for acquitting Donald Trump on a charge of inciting the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, saying their vote to clear…

Donald Trump was acquitted Saturday on charges of inciting an insurrection at the US Capitol. Washington, United States: President Joe Biden said Saturday that despite Donald Trump’s acquittal in the US Capitol insurrection trial the charges against him are not in dispute and the attack shows “democracy is fragile.” “While…

A collapsed wall by a strong earthquake is pictured in Kunimi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Iwaki: Trains were halted over a wide swath of northeastern Japan on Sunday after more than 100 people were injured in an earthquake that appeared to be an aftershock from the devastating quake that hit the…

The brewery likely dates back to the era of King Narmer. Cairo, Egypt: A high-production brewery believed to be more than 5,000 years old has been uncovered by a team of archaeologists at a funerary site in southern Egypt, the tourism ministry said Saturday. The site containing several “units” consisting…

The blaze took place at the customs office in Islam Qala, in Afghanistan’s western province of Herat. Photos from the scene show tall flames and plumes of thick black smoke, visible even from a distance. At least 17 people were injured and taken to the Islam Qala clinic and Herat…

Mitch McConnell called Trump’s actions leading up to the siege “a disgraceful dereliction of duty.” Washington: Top US Senate Republican Mitch McConnell delivered a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump on Saturday despite voting to acquit the former president on an impeachment charge, saying he was responsible for the January 6…