-- 2020-12-24 11:20:55
More than 100 people had been killed in a recent armed attack in west Ethiopia, the country's federal rights group confirmed late Wednesday, reports Xinhua. The bloodshed took place in the village of...
Hindustan Times 2020-12-23 19:43:46
India has proposed a nine-point plan for reforms of the World Health Organization (WHO), including changes in mechanisms to monitor health emergencies that can cross borders and giving the head of the...
-- 2020-12-23 17:11:15
The coronavirus has landed in Antarctica, the last continent previously free from COVID-19, Chile’s military said this week, as health and army officials scrambled to clear out and quarantine st...
Reuters 2020-12-23 15:32:19
The British government will review whether it needs to impose its strictest Covid-19 restrictions on more of the country on Wednesday as a highly infectious variant continues to spread but will not ch...
-- 2020-12-23 14:13:56
Rail, air and sea services between the UK and France are resuming this morning after the French government agreed to ease its travel ban over Covid fears. French citizens, British nationals living in...
REUTERS 2020-12-23 14:12:08
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party said on Tuesday there was no question of the government repealing agriculture laws fiercely opposed by farmers who are worried deregulation will reduc...
Reuters 2020-12-23 12:56:42
Three police officers have been shot dead in an incident in central France, and a fourth officer wounded, the country’s national police force confirmed on Wednesday. The news was earlier report...
-- 2020-12-23 12:24:18
Europe became the first region worldwide to cross 500,000 coronavirus (Covid-19) deaths on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, as a new variant of the coronavirus discovered in Britain threatened t...
Reuters 2020-12-23 11:07:19
A Texas-led coalition of nine states urged a federal judge on Tuesday to invalidate a programme that grants hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the United States as children the ability to...
Reuters 2020-12-23 10:25:33
India is likely to approve Oxford/AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use by next week after its local manufacturer submitted additional data sought by authorities, two sources with...
Global Times 2020-12-22 20:04:54
Chinese experts have assured the public that vaccines which the international community has pinned its hopes on to curb the COVID-19 pandemic will still be effective against the new virus variant iden...
-- 2020-12-22 19:15:19
Rights groups have called for an investigation into the death of Karima Baloch, a Pakistani activist living in exile in Toronto, Canada. Baloch, 37, a campaigner from the restive region of Balochista...
Reuters 2020-12-22 18:13:40
Toxic air killed more people in India in 2019 than in 2017, The Lancet said in a report shared by the government on Tuesday, with 1.67 million deaths accounting for 18 per cent of all fatalities. Ind...
-- 2020-12-22 17:28:57
The United States on Monday imposed additional visa restrictions on Chinese officials over alleged human rights abuses, taking further action against China in the final month of US President Donald Tr...
-- 2020-12-22 16:16:10
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe submitted to voluntary questioning by Tokyo prosecutors on Monday in a case against his secretary over unreported political funds, public broadcaster NHK repo...
REUTERS 2020-12-22 15:19:09
The United Kingdom was stuck in Covid-19 isolation on Tuesday after much of the world cut off travel ties due to a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, snarling one of Europe’s most importa...
REUTERS 2020-12-22 14:30:04
The US Congress on Monday (local time) approved an $892 billion coronavirus aid package, throwing a lifeline to the nation’s pandemic-battered economy after months of inaction, while also keepin...
-- 2020-12-22 12:38:59
More than 77 million people have been infected with coronavirus (Covid-19) globally and over 1.7 million of them died since the first cases were reported in December last year, according to data compi...
-- 2020-12-22 10:53:40
The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted on Sunday night, according to an advisory from the US Geological Survey, followed by an earthquake that struck at the volcano’s south fla...
-- 2020-12-22 09:24:19
US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on live television as part of a growing effort to convince the American public the inoculations are safe. The...
-- 2020-12-22 09:13:32
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Monday he had tricked a Russian secret agent into disclosing details of the botched plot to kill him and had been told that poison had been placed in his underpan...
-- 2020-12-21 22:02:03
A slew of countries closed their borders to Britain on Monday over fears of a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, heightening global panic, causing travel chaos and raising the prospect of UK fo...
-- 2020-12-21 18:13:06
Indian Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday said the Covid-19 vaccine may be available in the country in January next year. "I personally feel may be in January in any stage or any week, there can...
-- 2020-12-21 18:04:08
Leaders of Indian farmers sought to step up pressure on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to repeal three agricultural reform laws on Monday by starting a 24-hour relay hunger strike. Modi's govern...
Reuters 2020-12-21 18:01:50
Australia confirmed on Monday it has detected two cases of a fast-spreading new coronavirus strain that has forced Britain to reverse plans to ease curbs over Christmas, the first confirmed cases of t...
Reuters 2020-12-21 16:38:38
India on Monday announced a suspension of all flights originating from the United Kingdom to the country until the end of the year, the aviation ministry said in a tweet. The ban will come into effec...
REUTERS 2020-12-21 15:31:32
The United Kingdom was on Monday shut off from much of Europe after its closest allies cut transport ties due to fears about a new strain of the coronavirus, sowing chaos for families and companies ju...
Reuters 2020-12-21 13:44:07
Canada is halting passenger flights from the United Kingdom for 72 hours, the country's health ministry said on Sunday (local time), joining a growing list of countries barring British travellers to p...
REUTERS 2020-12-21 11:37:05
Speaking at a private dinner for tech security executives at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco in late February, America’s cyber defence chief boasted how well his organisations protect the c...
-- 2020-12-21 10:46:36
Nepal’s president has dissolved parliament at the request of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli’s cabinet and announced that general elections would be held in April and May, more than a year...
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