-- 2020-10-10 20:20:22
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's biopic will be the first Bollywood movie to hit Indian theatres when multiplexes across the country reopen on October 15 after nearly seven months. The movie that maps...
-- 2020-10-10 20:15:55
China and Sri Lanka plan to restart discussions on a free trade agreement, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said on Friday, following a high-level meeting between the two countries. Seen as cl...
-- 2020-10-10 18:42:52
The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) of the United States has cancelled the planned October 15 debate between US President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden. The nonpartisan co...
-- 2020-10-10 17:28:58
A new report estimates that 29 million women and girls are victims of modern slavery, exploited by practices including forced labour, forced marriage, debt-bondage and domestic servitude. Grace Forre...
-- 2020-10-10 16:36:20
Malaysia’s maritime authorities said on Saturday they had detained 60 Chinese nationals and six Chinese-registered fishing vessels they said were trespassing into the Southeast Asian country&rsq...
-- 2020-10-10 14:40:50
Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 12,846 on Saturday, a new daily record since the start of the outbreak early this year, pushing the overall total number of infections to 1,285,084. The previ...
REUTERS 2020-10-10 14:32:53
One week after Republican President Donald Trump announced he had Covid-19, Democrats in Congress on Friday proposed creating a commission to help decide whether to transfer a future US president&rsqu...
Reuters 2020-10-10 13:51:45
North Korea held a military parade early on Saturday to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of its ruling Workers’ Party in a rare predawn event, South Korea’s military said. The an...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-10-10 12:44:26
More than 70 million migrants living across international borders in the region of the Americas are set to receive health support under an agreement signed by IOM and PAHO. Carissa F. Etienne, direct...
-- 2020-10-10 11:36:48
Four people were killed and several more were wounded when a fuel tank exploded in a Beirut building on Friday, the Lebanese Red Cross said. The explosion caused a large fire to break out in the buil...
REUTERS 2020-10-10 11:20:03
Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a ceasefire starting on Saturday to exchange prisoners and bodies of those killed in the conflict between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces over the Nagorno-Karabakh re...
REUTERS 2020-10-10 11:06:17
US President Donald Trump will resume in-person campaigning on Saturday after being sidelined by a case of Covid-19, but a debate next week against his presidential election opponent Joe Biden was can...
-- 2020-10-10 10:55:50
The global Covid-19 cases have reached 36,802,708 on Sunday with 1,067,101 deaths worldwide, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The...
-- 2020-10-09 20:27:19
Pakistan on Friday blocked social media app TikTok for failing to filter out ‘immoral and indecent’ content, the country’s telecommunication authority said in a statement. “In...
-- 2020-10-09 18:03:50
Armenia and Azerbaijan have confirmed that their foreign ministers will come for talks to Moscow, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Friday. With Russian President Vladimir Putin calling for a h...
-- 2020-10-09 16:57:02
North Koreans wearing medical masks have gathered in the capital of Pyongyang, state media reported this week, ahead of what is expected to be a big military parade on Saturday, possibly featuring the...
Reuters 2020-10-09 16:01:38
The United Nations food agency, the World Food Programme (WFP), won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to combat hunger and improve conditions for peace in areas affected by conflict. Th...
Reuters 2020-10-09 14:33:07
China has joined a global scheme for the distribution of Covid-19 vaccine backed by the World Health Organization (WHO), it said on Friday, giving a major boost to an initiative shunned by US Presiden...
REUTERS 2020-10-09 13:03:58
Thirteen men, seven of them associated with an anti-government militia group called the Wolverine Watchmen, have been arrested on charges of conspiring to kidnap the Michigan governor, attack the stat...
-- 2020-10-09 11:58:38
A poll from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy found 78 per cent of Americans believe that US government policies caused the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in the country, includi...
Reuters 2020-10-09 11:21:44
Americans are rushing to cast ballots ahead of the November 3 election at an unprecedented pace, early voting numbers show, indicating a possible record turnout for the showdown between President Dona...
REUTERS 2020-10-09 10:57:13
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he may return to the campaign trail with a rally on Saturday after the White House physician said he had completed his course of therapy for the novel coronavir...
AL JAZEERA 2020-10-08 20:23:46
An estimated 14.0 million tonnes of harmful microplastics may be present in the bottom of the world’s deep oceans as a result of the pervasive use of plastic, according to a world-first study by...
-- 2020-10-08 19:41:30
Britain’s Prince William launched a multi-million-pound environmental prize on Thursday, teaming up with celebrities including footballer Dani Alves and Alibaba founder Jack Ma to launch a prize...
-- 2020-10-08 19:11:30
US President Donald Trump has refused to take part in a virtual TV debate with his Democratic rival Joe Biden. Earlier the commission deciding the October 15 Miami debate's format said it would have...
-- 2020-10-08 18:20:47
Chinese has advised Indian media not to violate the ‘One China’ principle and not to address Taiwan as a country after publication of advertisements on Taiwan’s national day on Satur...
-- 2020-10-08 17:10:58
American poet Louise Glück has been named the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. According to the seven-member Nobel Committee, the Prize was given to Ms Glück “for her unmi...
-- 2020-10-08 17:07:37
Mexican scientist Mario Molina, who became his country's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on the threat to the ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), died on Wednesday...
-- 2020-10-08 16:21:00
The Nobel Prize for Literature is set to be awarded Thursday after several years of controversy and scandal for the world’s pre-eminent literary accolade, reports AP. In 2018 the award was pos...
Reuters 2020-10-08 14:53:39
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is considering additional local Covid-19 restrictions for parts of northern England as the second wave of the novel coronavirus accelerates, Hou...
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