India Covid surge: Hospitals send SOS as record deaths registered
Indian hospitals say their patients are dying because of a shortage of oxygen as Covid case numbers and deaths set new records for a third day running.
India has recorded nearly a million infections in three days, with 346,786 new cases overnight into Saturday.
At the Jaipur Golden Hospital in Delhi, 20 people died overnight because of a lack of oxygen, an official said.
The government says it is deploying trains and the air force to transport supplies to hard-hit areas.
The number of deaths across India rose by 2,624 in the 24 hours to Saturday, up from 2,263 on Friday.
Missing Indonesian submarine believed sunk as debris is found, Navy says
Updated 1544 GMT (2344 HKT) April 24, 2021
Indonesia's Navy changed the status of its missing submarine from "sub miss" to "sub sank" on Saturday, as a naval chief presented debris believed to be from the vessel at a news conference.
Wealthy nations ‘failing to help developing world tackle climate crisis’
Warning comes after lack of new funding pledges at virtual summit attended by 40 world leaders and hosted by White House
Rich countries have failed to provide the financial assistance needed for the developing world to cut greenhouse gas emissions and cope with the impacts of climate breakdown, poorer nations have warned, after a US summit of world leaders ended with few new funding promises.
The failure leaves billions of people at risk from the worsening ravages of extreme weather, as poor countries struggle with the Covid-19 crisis and rapidly mounting debt.
US president Joe Biden brought together more than 40 world leaders for a two-day virtual White House summit on the climate crisis. The US led with a bold new target of halving carbon emissions this decade, while countries including Canada, Japan and South Africa also strengthened their emissions targets.
Coronavirus: Germany's 'emergency brake' rules take effect
People across Germany are facing curfews and shop closures with the new coronavirus rules. Here is what to expect.
Germany's new coronavirus lockdown rules came into effect on Saturday. Cities and districts that are deemed coronavirus hotspots will be affected.
New measures include curfews, school closures and shop closures.
What are the new rules?
If cities or districts exceed a seven-day incidence rate of 100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over three consecutive days, then local authorities must:
Myanmar junta leader meets ASEAN leaders on first foreign trip since coup
Myanmar's military must restore democracy and stop committing violence against citizens, Indonesian president Joko Widodo said after crisis talks with coup leader Min Aung Hlaing and Southeast Asian leaders Saturday.
"The first requested commitment is for the Myanmar military to stop the use of violence and that all parties there at the same time must refrain so that tensions will be reduced," Widodo said after a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Jakarta, Indonesia.
"The violence must be stopped and democracy, stability and peace in Myanmar must be restored."
India’s Covid crisis is mostly Modi’s fault
It is difficult to overstate the grip Covid-19 has on India. WhatsApp bristles with messages about this or that friend or family member with the virus, while there are angry posts about how the central government has utterly failed its citizenry.
This hospital is running out of beds and that hospital has no more oxygen, while there is evasion from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his cabinet.
Thirteen months after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the world was in the midst of a pandemic, the Indian government looks into the headlights like a transfixed animal, unable to move.
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