Category: FOREIGN

US sends warplanes to protect Afghan withdrawal

US sends warplanes to protect Afghan withdrawal

May 7, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The United States has deployed extra military resources to protect American and coalition forces withdrawing from ... Read More

Australia to resume India repatriation flights after backlash

Australia to resume India repatriation flights after backlash

May 7, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Australia will resume repatriation flights for some citizens in India after a controversial ban on arrivals ... Read More

Duterte apologises for taking unapproved China jab

Duterte apologises for taking unapproved China jab

May 6, 2021

(FASTNEWS | PHILIPPINES) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has asked the Chinese Embassy to take back 1,000 donated Sinopharm vaccines, ... Read More

India says new variant linked to COVID surge

India says new variant linked to COVID surge

May 6, 2021

(FASTNEWS | INDIA) - India has said a "double mutant variant" of the coronavirus first discovered there in March may ... Read More

China provides most oxygen concentrators to India: ambassador

China provides most oxygen concentrators to India: ambassador

May 5, 2021

(FASTNEWS |  CHINA)-As far as it goes, China provides most oxygen concentrators to India, and keeps producing oxygen concentrators and ... Read More

Australian government under criticism over India travel ban

Australian government under criticism over India travel ban

May 5, 2021

(FASTNEWS |  AUSTRALIA) - The Australian federal government's ban on its own citizens returning from India has been under criticism, ... Read More

Mexico City metro overpass collapses, killing 15

Mexico City metro overpass collapses, killing 15

May 4, 2021

(FASTNEWS | MEXICO) - At least 15 people have been killed and dozens injured after a metro overpass collapsed in ... Read More

India passes 20 million cases, says COVID “Slowing down”

India passes 20 million cases, says COVID “Slowing down”

May 4, 2021

(FASTNEWS | INDIA) - The number of new Covid infections in India has officially passed 20 million cases, even as ... Read More

Modi loses in battleground state amid COVID surge

Modi loses in battleground state amid COVID surge

May 3, 2021

(FASTNEWS |  INDIA) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party has failed to win a key state in elections held ... Read More

Delhi oxygen crisis deepens as more patients die

Delhi oxygen crisis deepens as more patients die

May 3, 2021

(FASTNEWS |  DELHI) - Hospitals in Delhi continued to send desperate messages for emergency oxygen supplies through the night on ... Read More

Australia bans arrivals from India, offenders face jail, fines

Australia bans arrivals from India, offenders face jail, fines

May 1, 2021

(FASTNEWS | AUSTRALIA) - Australian residents and citizens who have been in India within 14 days of the date they ... Read More

Car bomb at guest house kills 30 in Afghanistan

Car bomb at guest house kills 30 in Afghanistan

May 1, 2021

(FASTNEWS | AFGHANISTAN) - A huge car bomb blast killed at least 30 people and injured dozens more in Afghanistan's ... Read More

Brazil hits 400,000 deaths amid slow vaccination

Brazil hits 400,000 deaths amid slow vaccination

Apr 30, 2021

(FASTNEWS | BRAZIL) - The number of deaths related to Covid-19 has passed 400,000 in Brazil, the second-highest in the world, ... Read More

Dozens killed in Israeli religious festival crush

Dozens killed in Israeli religious festival crush

Apr 30, 2021

(FASTNEWS |  ISREAL) - At least 44 people have been killed in a crush at a crowded religious festival in ... Read More

India elections go ahead as deaths hit record high

India elections go ahead as deaths hit record high

Apr 29, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - People in the Indian state of West Bengal are voting in the final phase of elections ... Read More