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Four Sikhs among victims of Indianapolis mass shooting Amarjit Sekhon, a 48-year-old mother of two sons, was the breadwinner of her family and one of many members of Indianapolis’ tight-knit Sikh community employed at a FedEx warehouse on the city’s southwest side.

Around the world, cases and deaths are continuing to increase at worrying rates”, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking during his regular briefing.

This Ramadan, as countries around the world rollout COVID-19 vaccination programs, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, continues its focus on ensuring that forcibly displaced people are included in national vaccination efforts.

At least 9,500 shelters are estimated to have been destroyed or damaged. Refugees who have been displaced are being temporarily accommodated within the community.

“COVAX works” the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, informing journalists that the UN-backed vaccine initiative has distributed more than 32 million vaccines to 61 countries in just one month. 

A 21-year-old man suspected of carrying out a shooting in Atlanta in which eight people were killed has denied a racial motive to the attacks that have shaken the country’s Asian community, police said.

NAKURU, Kenya (AP) — President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight, has died. He was 61 years old.

Deputy Chief Minister congratulated AAP winners stating that people of Delhi were fed up with BJP and will bring back Kejriwal’s “politics of honesty”.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has launched an inquiry into the alleged war crimes in now Israeli-occupied areas of West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, reported The Guardian.