India struggles to contain one of the world's worst coronavirus outbreaks with nearly 400,000 new infections reported, as more international aid arrives in the South Asian nation to help end the crisis u.afp.com/UWQ3
VIDEO: 🇮🇳🇫🇷 Coronavirus aid sent by France arrived in #NewDelhi early on Sunday with 28 tons of medical equipment being delivered, according to the French embassy. The supplies include eight 'high capacity #oxygen generator plants' and 28 ventilators.
#UPDATE More emergency medical aid from foreign donors to alleviate a dire #oxygen shortage arrived in India on Sunday, as Covid-19 deaths in the South Asian nation rose by 3,689, the country's highest single-day rise yet in the pandemic u.afp.com/UWAW
#UPDATE The UK said Sunday it was sending an extra 1,000 #oxygen#ventilators to Covid-struck #India, as a group of doctors staged their own intervention by offering long-distance telemedicine from Britain u.afp.com/UWAF
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Manchester United fans invaded the club's #OldTrafford pitch ahead of Sunday's Premier League clash with Liverpool as part of a protest against the club's American owners the #Glazer family u.afp.com/UWdg#AFPSports 📷 @oliscarff
@oliscarff#UPDATE Kick-off in Sunday's Premier League match between Manchester United and Liverpool was delayed after fans invaded Old Trafford as part of a protest against United's owners, the #Glazer family u.afp.com/UWde#AFPSports#MUFCLIV
@oliscarff#BREAKING Man United's match against Liverpool postponed after fans' Old Trafford invasion: club
The US formally begins withdrawing its last troops from Afghanistan, bringing its longest war nearer to an end but also heralding an uncertain future for a country in the tightening grip of an emboldened Taliban u.afp.com/UWNa
US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, following the 9/11 terror attacks, targeted Al-Qaeda in the sanctuaries provided by the then Taliban government
As the US formally begins withdrawing troops, a timeline of the last two decades: u.afp.com/UWNE
US troop deployment and death tolls in Afghanistan since 2001 #AFPgraphics
#BREAKING US President Joe Biden restricts travel from India to US due to the Covid-19 outbreak: W.House
#BREAKING The WHO on Friday listed the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, thus helping countries that can't assess the vaccine's effectiveness to start using it, and allowing the Covax vaccine sharing scheme to distribute it
#UPDATE Starting May 4 the United States will restrict travel from India due to rampant spread of Covid-19. Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement, citing the "extraordinarily high Covid-19 caseloads and multiple variants" circulating in the country
#BREAKING Since 2010, Amazon forest emitted more CO2 than it absorbed: study
#UPDATE The Brazilian Amazon released nearly 20% more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the last decade than it absorbed, according to a stunning report that shows humanity can no longer depend on the world's largest tropical forest to help absorb man-made carbon pollution
"We don't know at what point the changeover could become irreversible," said co-author Jean-Pierre Wigneron, a scientist at France's National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA) u.afp.com/UWpT
#BREAKING Netanyahu calls stampede one of Israel's 'worst' disasters
#UPDATE Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a stampede that killed at least 44 people at a Jewish pilgrimage site on Friday was one of the "worst" disasters in Israel's history
📸 View of the northern Israeli town of Meron (foreground) after an overnight stampede
#UPDATE "The Mount Meron disaster is one of the worst to befall the State of Israel," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on Twitter, as he declared Sunday a national day of mourning u.afp.com/UWSX
India's coronavirus disaster deepens with the daily death toll climbing above 3,600 as dozens of countries sent urgent medical aid to help tackle the spiralling crisis
A desperate and determined diaspora scrambles to help India breathe.
Fielding frantic appeals for help, temples, mosques, gurdwaras and churches, regional and business associations, family groups and informal networks are all springing into action