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Int'l cooperation only way to tackle pandemic, climate emergency: UN chief

Int'l cooperation only way to tackle pandemic, climate emergency: UN chief

-- 2020-10-27 17:56:35

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that international cooperation is the only way to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate emergency. "International cooperation is the...

UN expresses concern over human rights situation in Myanmar

UN expresses concern over human rights situation in Myanmar

-- 2020-10-27 17:42:52

The UN human rights body has expressed serious concerns over the human rights situation and called on the government of Myanmar to take measures to ensure that the right to political participation can...

Japan's cabinet approves plan for free coronavirus vaccines

Japan's cabinet approves plan for free coronavirus vaccines

-- 2020-10-27 16:37:58

Japan's cabinet approved a plan on Tuesday to use public funds to provide novel coronavirus vaccines to the public for free, reports Reuters. The plan also calls for the government to bear the cost o...

US, Europe see record number of new Covid-19 cases as winter looms

US, Europe see record number of new Covid-19 cases as winter looms

REUTERS 2020-10-27 15:31:12

The United States, Russia, France and many other countries are setting records for coronavirus infections as a tidal wave of cases washes over parts of the Northern Hemisphere, forcing some countries...

China says it will act on US arms sales to Taiwan

China says it will act on US arms sales to Taiwan

REUTERS 2020-10-27 13:51:36

China’s foreign ministry said the country will take necessary measures to uphold its sovereignty and security interests, after the United States approved a further $2.4 billion in potential arms...

US, India must focus on China threat: Pompeo

US, India must focus on China threat: Pompeo

REUTERS 2020-10-27 13:10:14

The United States and China must work together to confront the threat posed by China to security and freedom, US Secretary Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday as he prepared for talks with Indian leaders. Po...

Saudi Arabia condemns caricatures offending Prophet Muhammad

Saudi Arabia condemns caricatures offending Prophet Muhammad

Reuters 2020-10-27 12:45:01

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned cartoons offending the Prophet Muhammad and any attempts to link Islam with terrorism but did not echo calls by other Muslim states for action against images being di...

Children among seven killed in blast at Pakistan religious school

Children among seven killed in blast at Pakistan religious school

-- 2020-10-27 11:58:41

A bomb blast at a religious seminary in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday killed at least seven people, including children, and wounded dozens, police and hospital officials said. “Unkn...

US Election 2020: Biden leads Trump in battleground states

US Election 2020: Biden leads Trump in battleground states

Reuters 2020-10-27 10:59:28

Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by a solid margin in Wisconsin and maintains a narrower advantage in Pennsylvania with just over a week until Election Day, Re...

Erdogan backs boycott of French goods over cartoon row

Erdogan backs boycott of French goods over cartoon row

-- 2020-10-27 10:58:04

Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan has asked his compatriots to stop buying French goods in the latest expression of anger in the Muslim world over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad,...

India, US to sign defence deal on satellite data

India, US to sign defence deal on satellite data

-- 2020-10-27 10:27:01

India will sign a military agreement with the United States for sharing of sensitive satellite data, the defence ministry said on Monday, as the two sides began a top-level security dialogue aimed at...

Erdogan calls on Turks to boycott French goods

Erdogan calls on Turks to boycott French goods

-- 2020-10-26 22:20:42

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Monday for Turks to boycott French goods and urged European Union leaders to halt French leader Emmanuel Macron's "anti-Islam" agenda, reports Reuters. For a th...

Europe warns of bleak winter as second COVID wave swells

Europe warns of bleak winter as second COVID wave swells

Reuters 2020-10-26 21:11:47

European leaders warned of a bleak winter as resurgent COVID-19 infections forced countries to impose new restrictions to try to curb a second wave of the pandemic, with the United States, Russia and...

Iran reports virus death every four minutes, extends curbs

Iran reports virus death every four minutes, extends curbs

-- 2020-10-26 19:09:16

Iran extended COVID-19 curbs in Tehran and across the country on Monday as health authorities said they were recording a death from the virus every four minutes. Some hospitals had run out of beds to...

China to impose sanctions on US firms over Taiwan arms sales

China to impose sanctions on US firms over Taiwan arms sales

-- 2020-10-26 18:58:07

China will impose sanctions on some US companies for their reported involvement in selling arms to Taiwan Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Monday said that China was acting to protec...

Malaysia's PM faces calls to quit

Malaysia's PM faces calls to quit

-- 2020-10-26 17:43:08

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin faced calls to resign on Monday as doubts swirled over the support that he commands, after the king rejected his request to declare a state of emergency to fi...

Chilean voters reject Pinochet's constitution, showing rebirth

Chilean voters reject Pinochet's constitution, showing rebirth

-- 2020-10-26 12:27:54

Chileans poured into the country’s main squares on Sunday night after voters gave a ringing endorsement to a plan to tear up the country’s Pinochet-era constitution in favour of a new char...

10 moments that defined America's 2020 presidential campaign

10 moments that defined America's 2020 presidential campaign

Reuters 2020-10-26 11:39:49

With Donald Trump running for re-election, the 2020 US presidential election was always expected to be a dramatic and eventful ride. But nobody predicted a global pandemic that would upend every facet...

France urges Arab nations to prevent boycott of French products

France urges Arab nations to prevent boycott of French products

-- 2020-10-26 11:03:05

France has urged Middle Eastern countries to end calls for a boycott of its goods in protest at President Emmanuel Macron's defence of the right to show cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The French f...

China reports surge in asymptomatic Covid-19 cases

China reports surge in asymptomatic Covid-19 cases

-- 2020-10-26 10:45:38

China reported the highest number of asymptomatic Covid-19 cases in nearly seven months, following a mass infection of an unknown origin in the northwestern Xinjiang region. Xinjiang health authoriti...

Night-time curfew in Spain to curb coronavirus infections

Night-time curfew in Spain to curb coronavirus infections

BBC 2020-10-25 20:46:31

Spain has declared a national state of emergency and imposed a night-time curfew in an effort to help control a new spike in Covid-19 infections. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the curfew,...

Malaysia's king rejects emergency rule in blow to prime minister

Malaysia's king rejects emergency rule in blow to prime minister

-- 2020-10-25 20:32:18

Malaysia's King Al-Sultan Abdullah rejected on Sunday a request by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin for him to declare a state of emergency in response to the coronavirus crisis, saying that he did not...

US disease expert says vaccine verdict due by early December

US disease expert says vaccine verdict due by early December

Reuters 2020-10-25 19:41:09

US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Sunday it would be clear whether a COVID-19 vaccine was safe and effective by early December, but that more widespread vaccination would not be likel...

Opposition in Seychelles wins presidency for first time in 43 years

Opposition in Seychelles wins presidency for first time in 43 years

-- 2020-10-25 17:40:36

The Seychelles elected an opposition candidate as president for the first time since 1977, authorities announced on Sunday, and winner Wavel Ramkalawan reaffirmed a pledge to hike the minimum wage aft...

EU mobilises €96m for Rohingya refugees

EU mobilises €96m for Rohingya refugees

-- 2020-10-25 16:50:19

The European Union has mobilised a total of €96 million for Rohingyas in 2020 for humanitarian, development cooperation as well as conflict prevention support. The EU along with the United State...

Treaty banning nuclear weapons to enter into force in 90 days

Treaty banning nuclear weapons to enter into force in 90 days

-- 2020-10-25 16:44:49

The United Nations announced Saturday that 50 countries have ratified a UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons triggering its entry into force in 90 days, a move hailed by anti-nuclear activists but strongl...

Suicide bombing in Kabul kills 24, mostly students

Suicide bombing in Kabul kills 24, mostly students

Reuters 2020-10-25 13:16:32

A suicide bombing at an education centre in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul killed 24 people including teenage students and wounded dozens more on Saturday, officials said. A Ministry of Interior s...

Malaysia’s rulers to meet to discuss PM Muhyiddin’s emergency proposal

Malaysia’s rulers to meet to discuss PM Muhyiddin’s emergency proposal

-- 2020-10-25 12:24:35

Malaysia’s rulers are set to meet on Sunday to discuss what sources have said is a proposal by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to impose a state of emergency amid a political crisis. Muhyiddin...

Pompeo on a mission to woo South Asians to counter China

Pompeo on a mission to woo South Asians to counter China

Reuters 2020-10-25 11:19:04

US Secretary of State of Mike Pompeo is flying to India next week to strengthen strategic ties with a nation that is locked in a military standoff with China, in Washington’s latest effort to bo...

New Florida resident Trump casts presidential ballot for himself

New Florida resident Trump casts presidential ballot for himself

-- 2020-10-24 22:16:27

US President Donald Trump voted in his new home state of Florida on Saturday, casting his ballot for his re-election at a public library across the street from one of his golf clubs. Trump, wearing a...