Russia’s coronavirus infection tally climbs to near 1 million

An officer of the Russian Federal security service wearing a face masks to protect against the coronavirus disease guards an entrance to the Kremlin in Moscow on August 26, 2020. (AFP)
Updated 30 August 2020
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Russia’s coronavirus infection tally climbs to near 1 million

  • Authorities said 68 people had died of COVID-19 over the last 24 hours

MOSCOW: Russia reported 4,980 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, pushing its confirmed national tally up to 990,326.
Authorities said 68 people had died of COVID-19 over the last 24 hours, raising the official death toll to 17,093.


Sri Lanka court orders 84 Iranian sailors’s bodies be handed to Iran embassy, local media says

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Sri Lanka court orders 84 Iranian sailors’s bodies be handed to Iran embassy, local media says

COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan court ​has ordered that the bodies of 84 sailors killed in an attack ‌on an Iranian ‌warship ​off ‌the ⁠island ​nation’s coast ⁠last week be handed over to the embassy of Iran, ⁠local media ‌reported ‌on Wednesday.
The warship, ​IRIS ‌Dena, was ‌hit by a torpedo from a US submarine in ‌the Indian Ocean while it ⁠was ⁠returning from a naval exercise organized by India, amid the US-Israeli war on Iran.