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-- 2020-12-29 14:08:24
More than 81 million people worldwide have been infected with coronavirus (Covid-19) in one year, according to data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The caseload reached 81,260,603 wit...
-- 2020-12-29 12:01:49
India has found six people who returned from Britain in recent weeks infected with a more infectious strain of the coronavirus that has prompted a wave of panic and border closures around the world....
REUTERS 2020-12-29 12:01:28
Thailand announced its first coronavirus death in nearly two months and tightened restrictions on entertainment businesses in its capital on Monday, in a bid to contain an outbreak that has reached mo...
-- 2020-12-29 11:45:04
Milan woke up to a thick blanket of snow on Monday, thrilling children but disrupting anyone trying to get back to work after the strict Christmas lockdown. Masked city workers were out at dawn shove...
-- 2020-12-29 11:04:55
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday said it was finalising the first-ever proposed standards regulating greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes. The EPA said its new requirements f...
-- 2020-12-29 10:33:14
India’s major grain-growing state of Punjab on Monday asked police to crack down on farmers and sympathisers vandalising telecommunication masts as they intensify their weeks-long protests again...
-- 2020-12-28 19:10:37
A Saudi court on Monday sentenced a prominent women’s rights activist, Loujain al-Hathloul, to five years and eight months in prison in a trial that has drawn international condemnation and as R...
-- 2020-12-28 18:21:02
The Serum Institute of India, which is manufacturing the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, said on Monday it expected the British and Indian governments to approve shots for emergency use within...
Reuters 2020-12-28 15:46:14
Seven Pakistani soldiers were killed late on Saturday in an attack in the southwestern province of Balochistan, the military said on Sunday. Security sources told Reuters the attack occurred in the d...
-- 2020-12-28 15:36:58
Saudi Arabia's interior ministry on Monday extended a ban on entry to the kingdom by air, land and sea for another week amid concerns over a fast-spreading variant of the new coronavirus, the state ne...
Reuters 2020-12-28 14:12:45
A Reuters cameraman, Kumerra Gemechu, was arrested in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday and will be kept in custody for at least two weeks, his family said. He has not been charged. No re...
-- 2020-12-28 14:01:08
A Chinese citizen journalist who covered Wuhan's coronavirus outbreak has been jailed for four years. Zhang Zhan was found guilty of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", a frequent charge agains...
REUTERS 2020-12-28 13:49:29
Britain will ban “buy one get one free” promotions for food high in fat, sugar or salt and free refills of sugary soft drinks in restaurants from April 2022, the government said on Monday,...
-- 2020-12-28 13:22:32
Several European countries have launched coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccination as the first batch of vaccines was distributed among European Union (EU) member states, in the hope of defeating the virus....
-- 2020-12-28 10:48:40
South Africa has become the first country on the continent to register more than one million Covid-19 cases. It comes just days after authorities confirmed that a new, faster-spreading, coronavirus v...
-- 2020-12-28 10:11:48
US President Donald Trump on Sunday signed into law a $2.3 trillion pandemic aid and spending package, restoring unemployment benefits to millions of Americans and averting a federal government shutdo...
Reuters 2020-12-27 22:40:32
German pilot Samy Kramer has traced a giant syringe in the sky, flying 200 kilometres to remind people about the start of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Europe. The 20-year-old pilot mapped out...
Reuters 2020-12-27 22:34:09
US President Donald Trump’s threat not to sign a $2.3 trillion spending package approved by Congress has already shuttered an emergency unemployment aid programme and threatens a partial federal...
-- 2020-12-27 19:59:38
Gulf Arab foreign ministers will hold a virtual meeting hosted by Bahrain on Sunday ahead of an annual summit to discuss steps towards ending a diplomatic row that has undermined regional stability an...
-- 2020-12-27 19:51:24
Japan has barred the entry of all nonresident foreign nationals as a precaution against a new and potentially more contagious coronavirus variant that has spread across Britain. The foreign ministry...
Reuters 2020-12-27 19:15:33
A senior Chinese official arrived in Kathmandu on Sunday to assess the political situation, local party officials said, a first diplomatic step by the neighbouring power after Nepal’s Prime Mini...
Reuters 2020-12-27 19:07:28
Russia’s president Vladimir Putin will receive the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a Russian state TV channel on Sunday. “He said he will b...
-- 2020-12-27 17:31:28
Beijing has tightened COVID-19 curbs over concerns that China’s mass travel during the holiday period could cause cases to spike in the capital, as it reported locally transmitted cases for a fo...
AP 2020-12-27 16:28:25
Edward Snowden has become a father, his lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told Interfax. Former CIA and NSA agent Edward Snowden and his wife Lindsay Mills announced the birth of their first child on social m...
-- 2020-12-27 14:29:46
An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said, while the interior minister said there were no immediate re...
REUTERS 2020-12-27 12:14:50
British fishermen said on Saturday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had sold out fish stocks to the European Union with a Brexit trade deal that gives EU boats significant access to the United Kingdo...
REUTERS 2020-12-27 10:47:53
Leaders of Indian farmers’ unions have agreed to meet ministers on Tuesday, possibly paving the way for a seventh round of talks with the government which has so far failed to mollify growers wh...
-- 2020-12-27 10:14:00
At least 10 climbers have died and several more are missing in mountains north of Iran’s capital Tehran after heavy snowfall, state media reported on Saturday, and the seven crew members of a sh...
Reuters 2020-12-26 20:52:55
Hungary stole a march on its fellow EU nations as it started vaccinating its people against COVID-19 on Saturday, a day ahead of rollouts in countries including France and Germany as the pandemic surg...
Reuters 2020-12-26 18:45:51
Tokyo reported a record rise in coronavirus cases on Saturday, as Japan experiences a surge that now includes a new, fast-spreading strain while the government urges people to stay home. Infections o...
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