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-- 2020-12-12 16:52:13
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will pledge to end direct government support for overseas fossil fuel projects at a UN summit on Saturday, aiming to spur similar moves by other countries to help...
REUTERS 2020-12-12 13:22:03
US workers could soon face choices such as free Covid-19 shots and a cash bonus if all get immunised, or those unwilling to be vaccinated get reassigned or even lose their jobs. Those options are bei...
-- 2020-12-12 12:37:19
Iranian dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, who was convicted of fomenting violence during the 2017 anti-government protests, was executed on Saturday, Iran’s state television reported. Iran&rsq...
Reuters 2020-12-12 10:48:21
India will deploy its vast election machinery to deliver 600 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the most vulnerable people in the next six to eight months through conventional cold chain systems, t...
REUTERS 2020-12-12 10:21:25
The US Supreme Court on Friday rejected a long-shot lawsuit by Texas and backed by President Donald Trump seeking to throw out voting results in four states, dealing him a likely fatal blow in his que...
Reuters 2020-12-12 10:17:26
Pakistan accused arch-rival India of funding a long-running disinformation campaign against it on Friday and said it would raise the matter in global forums. In making its claim that India attempted...
Reuters 2020-12-12 09:56:26
US health authorities, shipping services and hospitals stood ready on Friday to immediately launch a mass-inoculation campaign of unparalleled dimension, as federal regulators granted emergency approv...
REUTERS 2020-12-12 09:54:41
Five years on from the Paris Agreement on climate change, the world remains in denial over the actions needed to prevent catastrophic warming, Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg said on Fri...
Reuters 2020-12-11 23:54:15
The World Health Organization said on Friday nearly 1.0 billion doses of leading vaccine candidates had been secured as part of the COVAX programme to provide vaccines for low- and middle-income count...
Reuters 2020-12-11 23:23:48
A Rohingya woman is seeking $2.0 million in compensation for the death of her husband who was killed by government soldiers during a 2017 military crackdown in western Myanmar, lawyers said. Legal Ac...
-- 2020-12-11 20:49:41
Hong Kong democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 73, has been charged under the city’s national security law on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces, his Apple Daily newspaper repo...
-- 2020-12-11 19:10:39
Israel and Morocco agreed on Thursday to normalise relations in a deal brokered with US help, making Morocco the fourth Arab country to set aside hostilities with Israel in the past four months. It j...
-- 2020-12-11 17:30:32
Around a million doctors in India went on a day-long strike on Friday amid the coronavirus pandemic to protest against a new federal government rule that allows practitioners of the traditional scienc...
-- 2020-12-11 16:21:34
Australia cancelled the production of a locally made vaccine against COVID-19 after trials showed it could interfere with HIV diagnosis, with the government instead securing additional doses of rival...
-- 2020-12-11 13:54:30
Some of the rooms in Korea Superfreeze Inc’s coldest warehouse are so frigid that a cup of warm water thrown into one will immediately turn into snow. Located 65 km (40 miles) below Seoul and b...
Reuters 2020-12-11 12:11:23
US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were jointly named Time magazine’s 2020 “Person of the Year” on Thursday, chosen from a list of finalists that inc...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-12-11 11:00:15
With 270 million people – more than the entire population of Western Europe – “marching toward starvation”, the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) called for greater action...
Reuters 2020-12-11 09:12:48
India, the world’s biggest vaccine maker, is getting set for the massive global blitz to contain the coronavirus pandemic with its pharmaceutical industry and partners freeing up capacity and ac...
Reuters 2020-12-10 19:42:57
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon’s investigating judge charged caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three former ministers with negligence over the Beirut port blast that killed 200 people and rav...
-- 2020-12-10 19:03:37
Some 270 million people worldwide - equivalent to the combined populations of Germany, Britain, France and Italy - stand on the brink of starvation, the head of the United Nations’ World Food Pr...
-- 2020-12-10 13:54:02
Canada on Wednesday approved its first Covid-19 vaccine and said initial shots will be delivered and administered across the country starting next week, while every Canadian will be able to be inocula...
Reuters 2020-12-10 11:14:18
India’s antitrust body on Wednesday conducted raids at offices of UltraTech Cement and two subsidiaries of the world’s largest cement maker LafargeHolcim, two sources close to the matter t...
-- 2020-12-09 19:23:06
Despite calls for ceasefires and compassion amid the coronavirus pandemic, violence and persecution have continued to force people from their homes, with record numbers now displaced, says the United...
Reuters 2020-12-09 18:09:02
Britain’s medicine regulator has advised that people with a history of significant allergic reactions do not get Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine after two people reported adverse effect...
-- 2020-12-09 17:51:19
Five people were killed in a helicopter crash in the French Alps on Tuesday and a sixth was injured and fighting for his life, French President Emmanuel Macron said. The helicopter was carrying an ai...
-- 2020-12-09 16:20:11
An experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) has 86 per cent efficacy, the health ministry of the United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday, citing an...
Reutesr 2020-12-09 15:28:53
India's government will consider amending reforms that have sparked protests by farmers fearing the end of guaranteed crop prices but it will not abandon the plan, a government official said on Wednes...
-- 2020-12-09 13:33:00
More than 68 million people have been infected with coronavirus (Covid-19) globally and over 1.5 million of them died since the first cases were reported in December last year, according to data compi...
-- 2020-12-09 09:09:20
President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday laid out his plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic during his first 100 days in office, saying his administration would vaccinate 100 million Americans, push to r...
Hindustan Times 2020-12-08 20:14:20
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday the full potential of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) can only realised in an atmosphere free of terrorism and violence...
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