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Mexico’s Alma “Andrea Meza” Carmona beat contestants from 74 countries and territories to be crowned Miss Universe 2020 by her predecessor Zozibini Tunzi from South Africa.

BẮC GIANG — Leading medical experts from the health ministry were dispatched to lend a hand to Bắc Giang on Saturday night after the northern province reported rapid transmission of COVID-19 over the weekend.

South Korea will resume offering first doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine this coming weekend, health authorities said Sunday. Their use was suspended early this month so the scarce resource could be reserved for people getting their second shots.

The Big Durian has been ranked as the world’s most environmentally vulnerable metropolitan, as climate change, pollution, heatwaves, earthquakes and flooding are key threats to the capital’s residents and businesses.

In a manifestation of Chinas commitment to cooling the soaring tension between Palestine and Israel, Beijings senior diplomats have publicly spoken out at Washington for thwarting international efforts in brokering an early cease-fire.

Central Bank of Myanmar Vice Governor Win Thaw said that within the past week, more than two hundred billion kyats were deposited in banks.

The number of Covid-19 cases crossed 3.68 million across Southeast Asia on Sunday, with 15,568 new cases reported, lower than Saturday’s 16,990.

TEL AVIV, Israel - Predawn Israeli airstrikes Sunday on several homes along a main road leading to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City killed 42 people, including 10 children, according to Gazas Health Ministry, and the number was expected to rise. It is believed to be the single deadliest attack since the bout of violence began last week.

Any mandates in the U.S. to require people to be vaccinated against covid-19 will be set locally, not federally, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Britains restaurants and bars can serve indoors again for the first time in five months on Monday. Many of them are struggling to find enough staff after Brexit and three lockdowns in a year drove workers out of the industry.

GAZA CITY - Sanaa al-Kulak spent the night under the rubble. It was hard to breathe; her leg was trapped. Her son, stuck beside her, managed to get out his phone and call for help. "We tried to hold out," she said.

When the pandemic hit the Brookdale Chambrel senior living community in Williamsburg, Virginia, Nancy Crowell knew hopping in the car and heading to the local Harris Teeter supermarket was out of the question.