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2021-05-03 16:50:57 Modi Loses in Battleground State Amid Covid Surge

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has failed to win a key state in elections held amid record Covid-19 deaths and cases. The BJP targeted West Bengal heavily during campaigning but the state was comfortably held by the incumbent, Mamata Banerjee, a fierce Modi critic. Elections also went ahead in Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala states as well as the territory of Pondicherry (Puducherry).



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2021-05-03 16:50:55 North Korea Warns U.S. over Biden’s ‘Big Blunder’

North Korea warned on Sunday that the United States will face a grave situation if it continues to pursue its “hostile policy” toward Pyongyang’s nuclear program. The statement, attributed to Kwon Jong Gun, head of the Foreign Ministry’s department of U.S. affairs, comes as the Biden administration is set to unveil a new strategy to deal with the isolated Asian nation.



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2021-05-03 16:50:53 Washington Denies Iran State Media Report Saying Prisoner Swap Agreed

The United States on Sunday denied a report by Iran’s state television that the arch-foes had reached a prisoner swap deal in exchange for the release of $7 billion frozen Iranian oil funds under U.S. sanctions in other countries. Iranian state television said on Sunday that Tehran would free four Americans accused of spying in exchange for four Iranians held in the United States and the release of the frozen Iranian funds.



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2021-04-30 16:50:50 Amazon’s Profits More than Tripled in the First Three Months of 2021

Amazon’s profit in the first three months of 2021 came in at $8.1bn – more than triple what it was in the same period last year. Since the pandemic began, the business has posted four consecutive record quarterly profits, attracted more than 200 million Prime loyalty subscribers, and recruited more than 500,000 employees to keep up with the demand.



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2021-04-30 16:48:44 Israel PM Vows to Investigate Deadly Crush

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to investigate a crush at a crowded religious festival that left dozens of people dead. At least 45 people were killed and 150 were injured at the all-night Lag B’Omer festival, which attracted tens of thousands of Orthodox Jews. It is unclear what triggered the crush. The prime minister said the “terrible disaster” was one of the worst in the country’s history.



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2021-04-30 16:48:42 South Africa’s Zulu Queen Dies Suddenly

The Zulu royal family has announced “with deepest shock and distress” the sudden death of its queen weeks after she was named interim leader of South Africa’s largest ethnic group of about 12 million people. The unexpected loss of Queen Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu, 65, has thrown the nation into flux only a month after the death of her husband, Goodwill Zwelithini, who ruled for almost 50 years.



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2021-04-30 16:48:40 First US Relief Supplies Arrive in India as Cases Hit New Record

The first US emergency aid to India has arrived as the country battles a devastating surge in Covid-19 cases which has overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums. A Super Galaxy military transporter carrying more than 400 oxygen cylinders and other hospital equipment and nearly 1m rapid coronavirus tests landed at Delhi’s international airport on Friday. India set another daily record rise of cases, with 386,452 new infections.



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2021-04-29 15:44:27 Government, Industry Push Bitcoin Regulation to Fight Ransomware

Government and industry officials confronting an epidemic of ransomware, where hackers freeze the computers of a target and demand a payoff, are zeroing in on cryptocurrency regulation as the key to combating the scourge, sources familiar with the work of a public-private task force said. In a report on Thursday, the panel of experts is expected to call for far more aggressive tracking of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.



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2021-04-29 15:44:25 World will Lose 10% of Glacier Ice Even if it Hits Climate Targets

A tenth of the world’s mountain glacier ice will have melted by the middle of this century even if humanity meets the goals of the Paris climate agreement, according to figures compiled exclusively for the Guardian. The loss is equivalent to more than 13,200 cubic kilometres of water – enough to fill Lake Superior. The compiled results are considered the most accurate estimate yet of how mountains will lose their white snow-caps and blue ice-rivers.



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2021-04-29 15:44:23 Navalny Defiant but Gaunt After Hunger Strike

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “naked, thieving king” on Thursday, looking gaunt but defiant in a courtroom video link from prison, his first public appearance since ending a hunger strike last week. His remarks on a blurry video piped into a Moscow courtroom came amid new legal pressure on Navalny and his movement.



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