Top 10 world news: Bali passenger ship accident, Bolsonaro at fault, and more
A passenger ship with several people on board sank off Bali in Indonesia. Meanwhile,a day after Japan's deputy defence minister Yasuhide Nakayama saidTaiwanshould be protected as a "democratic country", China said the statement seriously violated the principles of China-Japan Joint Communique. China has alsotemporarily banned fishing forsquidsin parts of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans amid reports of overfishing which was led to scarcity. In Nigeria,several media organisations are concerned that the government might bring in stricter rules and regulations to clamp down on freedom of media in the country.
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The KMP Yunice ship had at least 41 passengers and 15 crew members when it sank, reports said.
Japanese minister Yasuhide Nakayama, during a talk with a think tank, had said there was a growing threat of Chinese and Russian collaboration while questioning the "One China" policy.
Researchers claim that stricter social distancing measures and an early start to the Covid vaccination programmes could have prevented at least 80 per cent of the Covid deaths registered in Brazil.
The EU member countries were divided over allowing the Chinese vaccines, Sinopharm and Sino vac, and Russian vaccine Sputnik V as the bloc opens up for travel.
As the world prepares itself against the new and emergingDelta Plus strainof the coronavirus, India has reported a new type of virus in people who have already sufferedCOVID-19.
TheWorld Health Organization(WHO)had approvedChina'stwo-dose CoronaVacfor emergency use listing after finding it "safe, effective and quality-assured".
A mouse, whose species was believed to have been extinct more than 150 years ago, has been rediscovered in islands off Western Australia.
China reportedly accounts for 70 per cent of global squid catch and its ships sail far and wide looking for the fish while travelling as far as West African and Latin American waters.
A group of New Zealand researchers have created a new weight-loss device that uses magnets to shut a person’s jaw together to keep them from chewing.
After the fight between social media platform, Twitter, and the government of Nigeria, media houses fear it might be their chance of coming under the hammer.