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Russia to deliver ’emergency’ virus aid to India

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) -- Russia will deliver emergency aid to coronavirus-hit India, President Vladimir Putin told Prime Minister Narendra Modi…

In photos: Grounds become open crematoriums in India as thousands die daily due to COVID

India reports record-high 360k new infections, over 3,000 deaths on Wednesday   These aerial photos from Agence France Presse show…

Strong quake damages buildings in India’s Assam state

GUWAHATI, India (AFP) -- A strong earthquake and nerve jangling aftershocks cracked walls and sent inhabitants pouring onto the streets…

India’s Covid death toll passes 200,000

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) -- India's coronavirus death toll passed 200,000 on Wednesday with more than 3,000 fatalities reported in…

California sends oxygen supplies to India amid Covid surge

https://youtu.be/-UutlcTOYA8   California joins those reaching out to help India by sending over oxygen concentrators and cylinders.  It is sending…

Magnitude 6 quake hits northeast part of COVID-wracked India, damages buildings in Assam state

(Eagle News) -- A magnitude 6 quake rocked northeastern India, with its epicenter located in the state of Assam where…

Russia says Brazil refusal to import Sputnik V ‘political’

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) -- The developers of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday criticized Brazil's refusal to import the…

Bodies pile up as Covid overwhelms India

by AFP bureaux NEW DELHI, India (AFP) -- Bodies of Covid victims lay burning Tuesday in funeral pyres cramming New…

First shipment of UK Covid medical aid arrives in India

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) -- The first shipment of Covid medical supplies from Britain to India, including 100 ventilators and…

Foreign aid arrives in Covid-stricken India

  NEW DELHI, India (AFP) -- The first emergency medical supplies trickled into Covid-stricken India on Tuesday as part of…

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