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REUTERS 2020-12-15 15:11:50
President-elect Joe Biden delivered a forceful rebuke on Monday to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the legitimacy of his victory, hours after winning the state-by-state Electoral College vot...
-- 2020-12-15 14:25:52
A bomb attack in Afghanistan’s capital city killed the deputy governor of Kabul on Tuesday, security officials said, adding a sticky bomb was attached to his car by unknown assailants. Mahboobu...
-- 2020-12-15 12:31:12
A record number of journalists were imprisoned during 2020, as governments cracked down on coverage of the coronavirus pandemic or tried to suppress reporting of civil unrest, the Committee to Protect...
-- 2020-12-15 11:57:39
Eleven elderly people with mobility issues died after being trapped in a burning retirement home in the early hours of Tuesday in the Russian region of Bashkortostan in the Urals mountains, authoritie...
Reuters 2020-12-15 11:49:49
Several senior Republican US senators on Monday acknowledged Democrat Joe Biden as the country’s president-elect after the Electoral College affirmed his victory, and rejected the idea of overtu...
-- 2020-12-15 11:16:45
A new ground-breaking global youth mobilisation was launched on Monday to invest in and scale up youth-led solutions and engagements in response to Covid-19. The initiative was launched by an allianc...
Reuters 2020-12-15 10:03:10
The World Health Organization (WHO) is aware of a new variant of Covid-19 that has emerged in Britain, but there is no evidence the strain behaves differently to existing types of the virus, it said o...
Reuters 2020-12-15 09:47:52
The United States imposed long-anticipated sanctions on Turkey on Monday over Ankara’s acquisition of Russian S-400 air defence systems, further complicating already strained ties between the tw...
Reuters 2020-12-14 22:18:49
New York on Monday inoculated its first healthcare worker, an intensive care unit nurse in Queens, with the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, marking a pivotal turn in the US effort to control the dea...
Reuters 2020-12-14 20:14:13
Europe's drug regulator is under increasing pressure to quickly approve the COVID-19 vaccine developed by US giant Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech, officials said, as inoculations get started in Britain...
AP 2020-12-14 16:13:46
Countries and regions around the world have recorded more than 72 million Covid-19 cases with over 1.61 million fatalities since it was first reported in China about a year ago, according to the Cente...
-- 2020-12-14 14:05:18
At least 400,000 people have fled militant attacks in northern Mozambique, the United Nations refugee agency said, warning that the crisis could quickly spread beyond the country’s borders if re...
REUTERS 2020-12-14 13:33:16
US Electors will gather in state capitols across the country on Monday to formally vote for Joe Biden as the next president, effectively ending President Donald Trump’s frenzied but failing atte...
-- 2020-12-14 11:17:03
Cargo planes and trucks with the first US shipments of coronavirus vaccine fanned out from FedEx and UPS hubs in Tennessee and Kentucky on Sunday en route to distribution points around the country, la...
Reuters 2020-12-14 10:05:12
Hackers believed to be working for Russia have been monitoring internal email traffic at the US Treasury and Commerce departments, according to people familiar with the matter, adding they feared the...
BBC 2020-12-14 09:23:45
The UK and EU have agreed to carry on post-Brexit trade talks after a call between leaders earlier on Sunday. In a joint statement, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commi...
-- 2020-12-13 23:33:47
A US-funded project using satellites to track and publish water levels at Chinese dams on the Mekong River was launched on Monday, adding to the superpowers' rivalry in Southeast Asia. The 4,350-km (...
-- 2020-12-13 22:19:10
Tens of thousands of Indian farmers on Sunday intensified their protests against three new agricultural laws aimed at overhauling food grain procurement and pricing rules by allowing private companies...
-- 2020-12-13 21:14:43
Parents converged on a secondary school in Nigeria’s northwestern Katsina state on Sunday, begging authorities to save hundreds of boys abducted by gunmen, reports Reuters. The army had exchang...
-- 2020-12-13 20:43:25
Mentioning that Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is 96 per cent effective, Alexander Gintsburg, the head of the vaccine’s developer, Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology...
REUTERS 2020-12-13 16:14:42
Conservative groups claiming without evidence that the November 3 election was stolen from President Donald Trump staged protests across the country on Saturday, with one in Washington turning violent...
Hindustan Times 2020-12-13 15:32:27
Sri Lanka has recorded the highest number of elephant deaths in the world due to the human-elephant conflict, according to a media report. The island-nation’s Committee on Public Accounts (COPA...
-- 2020-12-13 11:33:55
The US public will start receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine from Monday after it was authorised for emergency use, officials say. The first three million doses of the vaccine would be...
-- 2020-12-13 11:03:19
Israel established relations on Saturday with Bhutan, a majority-Buddhist nation neighbouring India, as it looks to continue to expand its diplomatic links internationally. Israel’s accord with...
-- 2020-12-12 21:13:09
A car plowed into a crowd of about 50 people at a protest that spilled into the streets of Manhattan in New York on Friday afternoon, injuring several people. The woman behind the wheel of the BMW se...
-- 2020-12-12 20:49:11
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said world leaders should declare states of ‘climate emergency’ in their countries to spur action to avoid catastrophic global warming. Antonio G...
-- 2020-12-12 19:20:58
Indonesian Islamic cleric Rizieq Shihab was arrested in Jakarta on Saturday on suspicion of having breached coronavirus restrictions by holding events that drew thousands of followers in the city, his...
Reuters 2020-12-12 18:31:55
Mexico has become the fourth country to approve emergency use of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, following authorisation from health regulator Cofepris, a health official said on Friday. "Cofepris has g...
-- 2020-12-12 17:44:38
South Korea reported a record 950 daily coronavirus cases on Saturday, exceeding the late February peak of 909, with the president calling the country’s third wave of COVID-19 an “emerge...
-- 2020-12-12 17:44:02
The Royal Bengal Tiger has been sighted at an altitude of 3,165 m above sea level for the first time in Nepal, raising concerns about the impact of global warming on wildlife. The departments of fore...
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