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Millions face new UK virus restrictions; border chaos eases

UK regions under pressure to submit to virus restrictions

6:35 pm October 16, 2020

London: England’s northwestern county of Lancashire, home to 1.5 million people, has agreed to accept the most severe level of COVID-19 restrictions as the British government warned Friday that it has the authority to impose such measures on high-risk areas that continue to resist. Geoff Driver, leader of the Lancashire County Council, said the county had struck a […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

WWII bomb explodes as it is made safe in Poland, no injuries

11:37 pm October 13, 2020

Warsaw: A British World War II giant Tallboy bomb exploded while being made safe underwater by Navy sappers in northwestern Poland on Tuesday. No one was injured. The 5.4-ton bomb was found September 2019 beneath a waterway leading to the port of Szczecin during work to deepen the passage. Over 750 people were evacuated for […]

UK at ‘tipping point:’ England braces for more restrictions

11:16 pm October 11, 2020

London: Millions of people in northern England are anxiously waiting to hear how much further virus restrictions will be tightened as one of the British government’s leading medical advisers warned Sunday that the country is at a crucial juncture in the second wave of the coronavirus. England’s deputy chief medical officer, Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, said […]

Fake asteroid? NASA expert IDs mystery object as old rocket

7:47 pm October 11, 2020

Cape Canaveral: The jig may be up for an “asteroid” that’s expected to get nabbed by Earth’s gravity and become a mini moon next month. Instead of a cosmic rock, the newly discovered object appears to be an old rocket from a failed moon-landing mission 54 years ago that’s finally making its way back home, […]

Delhi woman ‘becomes’ British High Commissioner for a day!

12:44 pm October 11, 2020

New Delhi: Being the British High Commissioner in India can be a hectic job, and an 18-year-old woman from the national capital experienced this when she held the post for a day. Chaitanya Venkateswaran from New Delhi had the unique opportunity to spend last Wednesday as the UK’s senior-most diplomat in India under the mission’s initiative aimed at empowering […]