NEW DELHI — Many places in India witnessed a partial solar eclipse on Tuesday, officials said.
The Indian Institute of Astrophysics live-streamed the celestial phenomenon. (India-Solar Eclipse)
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JAKARTA — Rescuers retrieved three more bodies on Tuesday after a ship caught fire in the waters off Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province a day earlier, bringing the casualties of the incident to 17 people with at least five others still missing.
“Today we recovered the bodies of one child, one man and one woman,” Saidar Rahmanjaya, head of the operation unit of the provincial search and rescue office, told Xinhua over the phone. (Indonesia-Ship Fire-Death Toll)
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TOKYO — Japan began COVID-19 vaccination for children aged between six months and four years on Tuesday at a hospital in Tokyo.
Japan’s health ministry started to distribute the vaccines to municipalities on Monday. Inoculations are set to follow in other places of the country when the local governments are ready. (Japan-Children-COVID-19 Vaccination)
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MANILA — An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 jolted northern Philippines on Tuesday night, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.
The institute said the quake, which occurred at 22:59 local time (1459 GMT), hit at a depth of 28 km, about 7 km northwest of Tineg town of Abra province on the main island of Luzon. (Philippines-Earthquake)