Mauritius’ Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said yesterday nearly all remaining oil had been removed from a damaged Japanese ship, which leaked about 1,000 tonnes in a threat to tourism already hurt by the coronavirus pandemic.

The French health ministry reported 2,524 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, a new post-lockdown daily record, which took the country’s cumulative total of cases to 206,696.

Protesters formed human chains and marched through the streets of Belarus carrying flowers yesterday in anger at a crackdown by strongman President Alexander Lukashenko that has prompted the European Union to consider new sanctions against Minsk.

England sought to defuse a looming row over the awarding of school qualifications during the pandemic by allowing students to use results of their earlier practice tests — a last-minute change designed to avoid a repeat of mistakes made in Scotland.

Baton-wielding police patrolled barricaded and deserted streets in parts of Bengaluru yesterday, after three people were killed in overnight clashes triggered by a Facebook post offensive to Muslims.

Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt, whose life has been so colourful and tragic that it became the subject of a biopic, has been diagnosed with lung cancer, media reports said yesterday.

A train derailed in eastern Scotland yesterday, killing three people, in what Scottish Premier Nicola Sturgeon described as an extremely serious incident.

On annual trips to India as a child, Kamala Harris would go for strolls on the humid beaches of Chennai with her maternal grandfather and his friends, listening intently as they chatted about democracy and the need to treat everyone equally.

A leading medical expert has said that coronavirus cases in India have not yet hit their peak or even plateaued.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern weighed delaying New Zealand’s upcoming election yesterday, as experts investigated whether the coronavirus could have re-entered the country through freight shipments.

The Punjab government has closed down coronavirus wards in three government-run hospitals in the city, leaving the Rawalpindi Institute of Urology (RIU) the dedicated facility for patients of the disease, following a reported decrease in cases.

Mauritius’ Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said yesterday nearly all remaining oil had been removed from a damaged Japanese ship, which leaked about 1,000 tonnes in a threat to tourism already hurt by the coronavirus pandemic.