Thailand’s Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), on Wednesday approved the extension of an emergency decree for 45 days to stem the spread of COVID-19.   The extension will span through the New Year festival and an international badminton tournament, CCSA spokesman, Taweesin Visanuyothin confirmed.   Taweesin also said that the CCSA had also approved […]

Iran’s launch of next-generation uranium enrichment equipment last week amounts to blackmail, a senior U.S. diplomat said on Wednesday. Tehran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Zarif, said earlier that there was a realistic chance of mending the 2015 fraying nuclear accord under the upcoming U.S. presidency of Joe Biden. However, his conciliatory message came as the International […]

Protests erupted in northern Brazil’s Amapa state over a two-week power outage that has unleashed chaos in the region, officials and residents said Wednesday. Protesters blocked roads overnight with piles of burning tires and rubbish in the state capital, Macapa, and the city of Santana, police said in a statement. The latest unrest in the […]

Britain will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2030, five years earlier than previously planned, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday. This is part of what Johnson is casting as a “green revolution” to cut emissions to net zero by 2050. Johnson, who is grappling with Europe’s most […]

DR Congo on Wednesday declared the end of its latest Ebola epidemic, closing the file on an outbreak in the northwestern province of Equateur that claimed 55 lives in nearly six months. “I am happy to solemnly declare the end of the 11th epidemic of the Ebola virus,” Health Minister Eteni Longondo told journalists. The […]