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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Monday ruled out the use of a health pass to access public places despite the Covid-19 pandemic. The requirement for such a certificate has provoked protests in European countries since its inception. “In the case of Mexico, we are not going to ask …

Hundreds of thousands of residents were confined on Monday in China in the midst of an epidemic rebound, which has seen the Delta strain spread to the four corners of the country and reach the city of Wuhan, the first affected by the Covid-19 epidemic. China has virtually eradicated the …

Malawi’s President, Lazarus Chakwera, has declared two days of national mourning in honour of 21 people killed in a horrific road accident on Sunday. They were travelling on the main road connecting the capital, Lilongwe, to the southern city of Blantyre. The 18 women and three babies were killed when …

Greece is hit by “the worst heat wave since 1987”, more than 30 years ago, warned Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, while the mercury was to reach 45 degrees Monday in some regions. Since Thursday, Greece has been going through a scorching period which is expected to peak on Monday and …

They are more than 700 migrants to have been picked up by rescue ships in the Mediterranean Sea off the coasts of Libya and Malta this weekend. About 400 were rescued from a vessel that was taking in water in the central Mediterranean, a further 100 were picked up off …

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has arrived in Kigali on her first official visit to Rwanda. She is expected to hold talks and have a joint press conference with President Paul Kagame later in the day. President Samia’s two-day visit is aimed at strengthening relations, and the pair will sign …

Indonesia’s devastating second coronavirus wave, which saw the Southeast Asian country become the epicentre of Asia’s COVID-19 outbreak, has peaked, its health minister said Monday. Driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant, Indonesia has over the past month been faced with an exponential surge in coronavirus cases that has overwhelmed …

Eighty-nine jihadists from the terrorist group Daesh were killed in army operations in the Sinai Peninsula in eastern Egypt, a military spokesman said on Sunday, without specifying when these extremists had been shot. Eight Egyptian soldiers were also “killed or wounded,” added the army spokesman in a statement. “As part …

After the government failed to respond to their grievances, doctors in Nigeria’s public hospitals are set to begin an indefinite strike over poor pay. The National Association of Resident Doctors (Nard) said its members would begin the strike on Monday at 08:00 local time. The union accused the government of …

Zambian security forces have been deployed to suppress electoral violence ahead of the 12 August general elections amid criticism by the opposition and other groups. The authorization has been given by the country’s president Edgar Lungu. “I have allowed the Zambia Army, Zambia Air Force and Zambia National Service to …