South Africa's president has declared that the country had entered a second wave of coronavirus infections and ordered the closure of some beaches for the holiday season.
India's COVID-19 tally reached 9,884,100 on Monday even as 27,071 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours, the latest data from the federal health ministry showed.
New Zealand hopes to open a travel bubble with Australia by April next year and is working to finalise the necessary anti-coronavirus border measures, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday.
The commando forces of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) carried out an operation in Nineveh Province and killed 42 militants of the extremist Islamic State (IS) group, the Iraqi military said Sunday.
A gunman died Sunday afternoon after he was critically shot by police when he opened fire near a crowd of people who gathered for a Christmas concert outside a famous church in Manhattan of New York City.
