Day: July 27, 2021

London, July 26 (AFP/APP): British department store chain Selfridges Group has been put up for sale by Canada’s Weston family for £4.0 billion ($5.5 billion, 4.7 billion euros), media reports said Monday. Credit Suisse has been appointed to start looking for a buyer, Britain’s domestic Press Association newswire reported without citing its source. Several suitors […]

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar chaired a meeting on Monday to review the status of preparation and processing of Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) and Railways Freight Corridor projects. In the meeting, important issues related to the freight corridor were discussed and review, said a press release issued here. The […]

Geneva, July 26 (AFP/APP): A new World Bank financing mechanism will allow developing countries to purchase Covid-19 vaccines collectively through the Covax facility, the scheme announced Monday. Covax was set up to ensure 92 developing territories could access coronavirus vaccines to fight the pandemic, with the cost covered by donors. The new mechanism will allow […]

Baghdad, July 26 (AFP/APP): Iraq has recorded 12, 180 Covid infections over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Monday, the highest number detected in a single day so far in the pandemic. More than 1.5 million people have now tested positive and 18, 347 have officially died of Covid-19 in Iraq, where […]

London, July 26 (AFP/APP): Trent Rockets head coach Andy Flower and two members of his support staff have tested positive for the coronavirus and will miss the Hundred fixture at Trent Bridge later Monday, the England and Wales Cricket Board have announced. Rockets player Steven Mullaney and another, also unnamed, support staff member have been […]

New York, July 26 (AFP/APP): New York City will require all municipal workers to get vaccinated against coronavirus or take a weekly test, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday as the Delta variant fuels an uptick in cases in the metropolis. The order will go into effect from September 13 and will apply to more […]

UNITED NATIONS: More women and children have been killed or injured in Afghanistan over the first six months of 2021 than in the first half of any year since 2009, when record-keeping began, a United Nations report said Monday. There was a 47 percent increase in civilians deaths and injuries between January and July, compared […]

Frankfurt, July 26 (AFP/APP): Germany’s BioNTech, which developed a coronavirus vaccine with US giant Pfizer in record time, said Monday it aimed to start trialling a malaria vaccine next year using the same breakthrough mRNA technology. If successful, the vaccine could be a crucial step in the fight against the mosquito-borne disease, which kills more […]