International News
REUTERS The Philippines has suspended the deployment of workers to Saudi Arabia after it received reports that their employers and recruiters were making them pay for COVID-19 testing, quarantine and insurance upon arrival in the kingdom. Labou..
Dozens of domestic workers were tricked or forced into travelling to Syria, where they endure physical and sexual violence and withheld wages Dozens of women and children from the Philippines have been recruited to work in the United Arab Emirates..
According to a new travel advisory, people arriving from Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Brazil, South Africa and Nepal will be quarantined for 14 days. In a bid to curb the spread of Covid-19, Turkey has made 14 days of insti..
More than 200 prison inmates have been issued a special pardon by Oman's Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik. "His Majesty Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik, the Supreme Commander, issues a special pardon for a group of 229 prison inmates convicted in variou..
A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced on Monday ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in jail on several charges including possession of unlicensed walkie-talkies, a source familiar with the proceedings said. The court handed down a t..
India has begun giving booster doses of the Covid-19 vaccine to priority groups amid a surge in infections. Health and frontline workers and people above 60 years with comorbidities are currently eligible to take the jab. The drive began as Ind..
India reported 179,723 new COVID-19 infections on Monday, the most since late May, health ministry data showed, taking the total to 35.71 million. Deaths rose by 146 to 483,936. Source: Reuters / Reporting by Chandini Monappa; Editing by Kim Co..
Brazil has had 24,382 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 44 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said on Sunday. The South American country has now registered 22,523,907 cases since the pandemic began, while..
At least 13 passengers, who tested positive for Covid-19 upon their arrival in the Indian city of Amritsar, have escaped institutional quarantine. They were among 125 infected passengers on a chartered flight from Milan which landed on Wednesday a..
.jpg)
.png)
.png)
