#BREAKING Daily record of more than 893,000 Covid cases worldwide, mainly due to India surge: AFP count
#UPDATE A daily record of more than 893,000 #COVID19 cases has been recorded worldwide, mainly due to a surge of the virus in #India, according to an AFP count on Saturday u.afp.com/UPZ2
VIDEO: 🇮🇳 An overcrowded Covid-19 ward in a #NewDelhi hospital where two or three patients share a single bed, with barely enough space for others to stand. India's daily coronavirus death toll has hit a new record of 2,624 as the government battles to get oxygen to hospitals
#UPDATE A new global daily record of coronavirus cases was reached Saturday due mainly to a surge in the virus in #India, but Covid jabs also approached one billion globally, offering hope after months of pandemic misery u.afp.com/UPZt
#BREAKING One billion Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered globally: AFP tally
Huge crowds protested in London against Britain's remaining coronavirus restrictions, the mandatory use of masks and the possible introduction of so-called Covid-19 vaccine passports
#UPDATE More than one billion Covid-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide less than five months after the first mass inoculation programmes began, with 58 percent given in three countries: the United States, China and India #coronavirusu.afp.com/UPop
April has become the deadliest month yet of the Covid-19 epidemic in Brazil, Latin America's most populous country, with the highest death rate per 100,000 people in both the Americas and the southern hemisphere #coronavirus
#BREAKING 104 police, 30 journalists among injured in Bangladesh clashes: TV
#UPDATE Protesters in Bangladesh set fire to several government buildings during a day of deadly nationwide clashes between students and riot officers, a police statement said.
"The miscreants have already torched, vandalised and carried out destructive activities," on the offices of state broadcaster BTV and the national disaster management agency along with "various" police and government buildings, said the statement, issued after a nationwide internet shutdown
Bangladesh wakes to torched government buildings, internet blackout.
This week's unrest has killed at least 39 people including 32 on Thursday, with the toll expected to rise further after reports of clashes in nearly half of the country's 64 districts
#BREAKING Biden says still considers Xi a 'dictator'
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year.
"Well look he is, I mean he's a dictator in the sense that he's a guy who's running a country, a Communist country, that's based on a form of government totally different than ours," Biden said at the end of a news conference when a reporter asked if he would still use the term to describe Xi
#BREAKING China will not begin armed conflict with any nation, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, after a high-stakes summit with US President Joe Biden.
"China does not seek spheres of influence, and will not fight a cold or hot war with any country," he told a gathering of business leaders in San Francisco
#BREAKING Any compromise with Russia will 'destroy' Ukrainian statehood: presidential aide to AFP
#BREAKING Putin says West used grain deal for 'political blackmail'
VIDEO: Ukrainian firefighters battle flames after a Russian strike on Odesa.
Ukraine's president accused Russia of deliberately targeting grain export infrastructure in the city after Moscow ended a landmark deal and lifted security guarantees in the Black Sea
#BREAKING Putin says situation 'difficult' in Rostov in southern Russia
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday acknowledged a "difficult" situation was unfolding in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, where the Wagner mercenary group has taken control of key military sites in an effort to oust Russian military's top brass.
#UPDATE President Vladimir Putin vowed Saturday he would not allow Russia to slip into civil war, after the leader of the Wagner mercenary force seized a key military headquarters overseeing the offensive in Ukraine.
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