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The northwestern Chinese city of Xian has imposed tight curbs on outbound travel as well as ordinary commuting within the city as a new COVID-19 outbreak sees community cases tick higher, but stopped short of full-scale lockdown as seen in Wuhan last year.
December, 2021
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23 December
Duty of care to block mine, minister told
Environment Minister Sussan Ley is being urged to stand up for Australian children and reject a new coalmine proposed for central Queensland.
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23 December
34 people detained after chemical added to chocolate kills 2-year-old
Police later found that the poisonous chocolate was purchased by the girl's mother from the internet. They detained 34 suspects from 14 provincial-level regions and seized many illegal chocolate and pills.
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23 December
China to lock down 13 million in Xi'an
China has ordered the lockdown of as many as 13 million people in neighbourhoods and workplaces in the northern city of Xi'an following a spike in COVID-19 cases.
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23 December
Russia is not readying military invasion of Ukraine, Russian envoy tells paper
Russia is not preparing a military invasion of Ukraine, its ambassador to the European Union was quoted as saying on Thursday, after Moscow unnerved the West with a massive troop build-up on its territory close to the Ukrainian border.
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23 December
The US must not make empty threats
As Russia masses troops along its border with Ukraine, fears of an invasion are mounting. The United States has warned that Russia would pay a heavy price, exacted first and foremost through economic
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23 December
66 million-year-old perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo found
The embryo fossil, nicknamed “Baby Yingliang,” was discovered in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province in southern China, and is believed to be at least 66 million years old. Researcher Dr. Fion Waisum Ma told the AFP News Agency that this discovery is “the best dinosaur embryo ever found in history.
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23 December
High demand for travel during first Christmas getaway in two years
Coronavirus restrictions meant many people missed out on seeing friends and family during the 2020 festive period.
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23 December
Doctor laments 'exhausting' Omicron wave: 'We're trying to juggle a million things at once'
The Omicron surge fueling new COVID-19 infections is exhausting health care workers, and "there's no end in sight."
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23 December
Madagascar minister ‘swims for 12 hours’ after helicopter crash at sea
A Madagascan government minister says he swam for 12 hours to safety after his helicopter crashed at sea. Police Minister Serge Gelle was on a scouting