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As many as 39 international passengers have been tested Covid positive in just two days at several Indian airports during random Covid testing. The government made random coronavirus testing mandatory for two per cent of passengers arriving in each international flight from December 24 amid a surge in coronavirus cases in some countries, including China. 

A total of 6,000 international passengers were tested in two days, out of which 39 have tested positive for the deadly virus. According to sources in the health ministry, BF.7 variant is 16 times more infectious. The health ministry is studying the medicine and vaccine effect on the strain as of now. 

"The supply of Russian oil and oil products to foreign legal entities and individuals is prohibited if the contracts for these supplies" are using a price cap, the presidential decree said, adding that it will be in effect from February 1 until July 1.

Russia issued a decree Tuesday to ban oil sales to countries and companies that comply with a price cap agreed by Western nations in response to Moscow's offensive in Ukraine.

"The supply of Russian oil and oil products to foreign legal entities and individuals is prohibited if the contracts for these supplies directly or indirectly" are using a price cap, the presidential decree said.

A relentless storm, what authorities called the 'blizzard of the century' paralysed western New York over the Christmas weekend. 

So far, the storm has killed 27 people in New York and at least 60 across the whole of the United States.

Local officials on Monday said efforts to dig out the snow-bound region around Buffalo were on as rescue operations continued. 

Roadways remained littered with cars, buses, ambulances, tow trucks and even plows buried beneath towering drifts, complicating efforts to clear snow-blanketed streets and reach stranded residents in need of medical care. 

Millions of people hunkered down against a deep freeze Sunday to ride out the winter storm that has killed at least 34 people across the United States and is expected to claim more lives after trapping some residents inside houses with heaping snow drifts and knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses. The scope of the storm has been nearly unprecedented, stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico. About 60 per cent of the US population faced some sort of winter weather advisory or warning, and temperatures plummeted drastically below normal from east of the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians, the National Weather Service said.

Clashes between protestors and police broke out in Paris on Friday following a mass shooting.

A gunman opened fire in the 10th arrondissement in Paris, near the Kurdish cultural centre and a hair salon, killing three and injuring three.

It comes 10 years after three Kurds were murdered just streets away.