At least seven people who were attending a wedding, including the bride, were killed after their boat capsized in a river in Bangladesh's Noakhali district, some 158 km southeast of capital Dhaka, police said.
A Taiwanese airline company has begun operating flights between Taiwan and Japan, and plans to launch more as it expects tourism demand to recover after the coronavirus pandemic ends.
The Czech government said Monday it would reimpose an overnight curfew and close restaurants and bars across the country for Christmas as there has been no let-up in its Covid-19 outbreak.
The Netherlands is to go into its strictest coronavirus lockdown yet, with schools and non-essential shops shutting for five weeks over the Christmas period, Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced Monday.
Germany is pressuring EU authorities to speed up the approval of a coronavirus vaccine as it battles a surge in infections and Britain and the US begin mass inoculations, reports said.
A police officer was killed and two police were wounded in a militants' ambush in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, on early Tuesday, reported a local TV channel.
