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Reuters 2020-12-06 10:56:47
Pfizer has applied for emergency use authorisation of its coronavirus vaccine in India, media said on Sunday, the first to do so in a country with the world’s second-highest number of infections...
-- 2020-12-06 09:19:04
US President Donald Trump has pressed the Republican governor of Georgia to help overturn Joe Biden's election victory in the state. In a series of tweets, he urged governor Brian Kemp to call a spec...
-- 2020-12-05 20:54:52
India's ambitious plan to modernise old and important colonial-era government buildings in Delhi will kick off next week. To start with, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation sto...
-- 2020-12-05 20:05:37
United States President Donald Trump has ordered the withdrawal of most American troops from Somalia, the US Department of Defence said on Friday. The decision is a part of a global pullback by the R...
Reuters 2020-12-05 18:57:22
Moscow began distributing the Sputnik V COVID-19 shot via 70 clinics on Saturday, marking Russia's first mass vaccination against the disease, the city's coronavirus task force said. The task force s...
-- 2020-12-05 18:52:02
Kuwaitis voted in legislative polls on Saturday with the Gulf state mired in its worst economic crisis in decades, which poses a challenge for the government’s often stormy relationship with a p...
-- 2020-12-05 18:27:37
Qatar’s foreign minister has said there has been movement on resolving the diplomatic dispute that has pitted the Gulf neighbours against each other but he could not predict whether a breakthrou...
-- 2020-12-05 17:04:29
South Korean authorities urged vigilance on Saturday as small coronavirus clusters emerged in a third wave, centred in the Seoul area, with infections near nine-month highs, reports Reuters. The Kore...
-- 2020-12-05 16:33:50
India's government is considering rolling back some parts of its agricultural reforms after they triggered the biggest protests by farmers in years, officials said on Friday. Tens of thousands of far...
-- 2020-12-05 12:57:48
In a rebuke to President Donald Trump’s administration, a judge on Friday ordered the US government to reopen to first-time applicants a programme that protects from deportation and grants work...
Reuters 2020-12-05 12:27:41
Eighteen people have died after being trapped in a mine in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday, the region’s second such accident in ju...
-- 2020-12-05 11:04:35
President-elect Joe Biden says Americans won't be forced to take a coronavirus vaccine when one becomes available in the US. It comes as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for the first time urged...
-- 2020-12-04 18:57:56
Denmark will end all new oil and gas exploration in the North Sea, as part of a wider plan to stop extracting fossil fuels by 2050. Its government also agreed to cancel its latest licensing round on...
Reuters 2020-12-04 18:29:43
Philippine police on Friday threatened to cane people who violate social distancing protocols as the Southeast Asian nation fights the spread of the coronavirus during the festive season. The Philipp...
FE Online Report 2020-12-04 12:36:43
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has welcomed the important measures to strengthen media freedom and pluralism in the ‘European Democracy Action Plan’ published by the European...
REUTERS 2020-12-04 10:41:15
Over 1.5 million people have lost their lives due to Covid-19 with one death reported every nine seconds on a weekly average, as vaccinations are set to begin in December in a handful of developed nat...
-- 2020-12-03 19:02:56
An additional 207 million people could be pushed into extreme poverty by the severe long-term impact of the coronavirus pandemic, bringing the total number to more than 1.0 billion by 2030, according...
Hindustan Times 2020-12-03 17:56:42
China on Thursday said it was within its legitimate rights to build a dam on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo river close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC), but gave the assurance that the hy...
BBC 2020-12-03 17:11:20
Record-high Covid infections and hospitalisations have been reported in the US, with fears they will not slow in the run-up to Christmas. The number of people in hospital passed 100,000 for the first...
-- 2020-12-03 15:54:00
Ethiopia and the United Nations agreed on Wednesday to channel desperately-needed humanitarian aid to the northern region of Tigray, where a month of war is believed to have killed thousands of combat...
Reuters 2020-12-03 15:34:58
Indian government ministers began talks with farmers’ leaders on Thursday to try and break a deadlock over laws passed earlier this year seeking to deregulate the agriculture sector that has ign...
-- 2020-12-03 13:51:26
Covid-19-related school closures risk is pushing an additional 72 million primary school aged children into "learning poverty" - meaning that they are unable to read and understand a simple text by ag...
Reuters 2020-12-03 12:47:56
Britain’s Prince Harry has suggested that the coronavirus pandemic is a rebuke from nature as he called for more action to tackle climate change. The prince spoke during a conversation about th...
-- 2020-12-03 12:32:48
Police in India's Uttar Pradesh state have arrested a Muslim man for allegedly trying to convert a Hindu woman to Islam. He's the first to be arrested under a new anti-conversion law that targets "lo...
-- 2020-12-03 10:45:25
Iran has moved to stop UN inspections of its nuclear sites and step up uranium enrichment under a new law approved by its parliament. The bill would require the government to resume enriching uranium...
REUTERS 2020-12-03 09:45:02
Donald Trump hinted he may be ready to move on to planning another run for the US presidency in 2024 as President-elect Joe Biden prepared on Wednesday to confront the raging pandemic that will likely...
-- 2020-12-02 23:21:00
China’s plan to develop a dam on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet is now at a "preliminary planning and demonstration" stage, a Chinese official in New Delhi said on Wednesday. Brahmaputra River,...
-- 2020-12-02 22:59:44
China is forcing restaurants, e-commerce platforms and delivery services to report their use of single-use plastics. The Ministry of Commerce of China said it had established a nationwide system for...
-- 2020-12-02 20:33:50
The European Union criticised Britain's rapid approval of Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, saying its own procedure was more thorough after Britain became the first western country...
-- 2020-12-02 18:09:07
The Interpol has warned that organised criminal networks could be targeting COVID-19 vaccines, and could look to sell fake shots. The global police co-ordination agency, which is headquartered in Fra...
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