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Abuja, Apr 16 (UNI) The toll of the Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria has risen to 127. In all 674 confirmed cases have been recorded from 4,025 suspected cases reported since the onset of the outbreak in January, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said in a statement. Eighteen out of the…

Washington, Apr 15 (UNI) The Trump administration on Monday announced a freeze on 2.2 billion US dollars in multi-year grants and a 60 million contract to Harvard University, hours after the university rejected a list of demands from the federal government. Earlier in the day, Harvard refused to comply with the administration’s demands to make…

Colombo, Apr 15 (UNI) Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu has ratified the Third Amendment to the Maldives Immigration Act prohibiting Israeli passport holders from entering the territory of the Republic of Maldives, the President’s Office said on Tuesday. The amendment was passed by the People’s Majlis during the 20th sitting of the first session of the…

New York, Apr 4 (UNI) An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 jolted 3 km NE of San Diego Country Estates, California at 2025-04-14 17:08:27 GMT on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 9.0 km, was initially determined to be at 33.03 degrees north latitude and 116.76 degrees west…

Khartoum, Apr 14 (UNI) At least 56 people were killed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Umm Kadada city in North Darfur State, western Sudan, volunteer groups have said. These people were “executed on an ethnic basis” after the RSF took control of the city on Thursday, the Coordination of Resistance Committees in…

Dhaka, Apr 13 (UNI) Amid allegations of a rise in Islamic radicalism under the Interim Government, Chief Advisor Mohd Yunus attended a function at the International Buddhist Monastery in Dhaka today, and urged the people of Bangladesh to celebrate the Pohela Boisakh festivities tomorrow as per their traditional customs. Chief Advisor Yunus laid the foundation…

Dhaka, Apr 13 (UNI) Urging the Interim Government to honour its promise of holding national polls in December, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) senior leader Selima Rahman stated that no interim government has the right to stay in power for five years. “We want fair elections. The home affairs adviser has said the country wants this…

Dushanbe, Apr 13 (UNI) A magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurred in Tajikistan, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported. The earthquake occurred on Sunday at 4:24 GMT at a distance of more than 170 kilometers southeast of the city of Khujand with a population of more than 198,000 people. The epicenter was located at a depth of…

Beijing, Apr 13 (UNI) China’s meteorological authority again issued an orange alert on Sunday morning for strong gales, with a sweeping cold front causing fierce winds across northern China since Friday evening. From 8 a.m. Sunday to 8 a.m. Monday, winds of up to force 11 (28.5-32.6 meters per second) will hit parts of Inner…

Washington, Apr 13 (UNI) A light aircraft with six people on board crashed in the US state of New York, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement. “A Mitsubishi MU-2B crashed in a field near Copake, New York, around 12:15 p.m. local time on Saturday, April 12. The aircraft was headed to…