-- 2020-10-08 13:09:01
Italy on Wednesday made it mandatory to wear face masks outdoors nationwide in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, as new infections jumped to the highest daily tally since April. The de...
-- 2020-10-08 12:38:17
Global coronavirus (Covid-19) cases have exceeded 36 million on Thursday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The global case count r...
REUTERS 2020-10-08 12:21:54
India's drug regulator has knocked back a proposal from Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd REDY.NS to conduct a large study in the country to evaluate Russia's Sputnik-V Covid-19 vaccine and has asked it to...
-- 2020-10-08 11:28:52
Australia will require partners of existing residents to pass an English language test before gaining a permanent visa, its government says. The controversial immigration requirement, if appr...
REUTERS 2020-10-08 11:07:04
Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic challenger Kamala Harris clashed early and often over the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic during their debate on Wednesday, a...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-08 11:02:53
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Myanmar to urgently end the arbitrary and indefinite detention of approximately 130,000 Rohingya Muslims in squalid and abusive camps in Rakhine State. Recent measu...
Reuters 2020-10-08 10:01:19
US President Donald Trump declared that catching the coronavirus was a “blessing from God” that exposed him to experimental treatments he vowed would become free for all Americans, in a vi...
Reuters 2020-10-07 21:01:57
Republicans are mobilising thousands of volunteers to watch early voting sites and ballot drop boxes leading up to November’s election, part of an effort to find evidence to back up President Do...
-- 2020-10-07 17:21:41
Kuwait’s new ruler on Wednesday named veteran security chief Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad as crown prince, retaining power firmly within the ruling family’s oldest ranks and signalling the OPEC...
-- 2020-10-07 16:47:10
Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing, the award-giving body said on Wednesday. “Emmanue...
-- 2020-10-07 16:31:09
India reported 72,049 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, dropping from the daily highs of last month in a sign infections were peaking for now, officials and experts said, reports Reuters. India...
-- 2020-10-07 11:48:16
China said on Wednesday that the United States should stop its unprovoked attacks and accusations against China, accusing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of maliciously creating political confrontat...
-- 2020-10-07 11:30:41
India’s tally of coronavirus infections stood at 6.76 million on Wednesday, rising by 72,049 cases in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed, while the death toll was up 986 at 104,555....
-- 2020-10-07 10:44:41
Kyrgyzstan's prime minister has resigned after widespread post-election protests which plunged the country into political chaos. Kubatbek Boronov has now been replaced by Sadyr Japarov, who protester...
Reuters 2020-10-07 10:19:51
When Jill Biden noticed her husband standing too close to journalists for her comfort while taking questions on Monday, she walked up and pulled the 77-year-old US presidential candidate back. People...
-- 2020-10-06 21:45:21
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Americans were learning to live with COVID-19, a day after returning from hospital to the White House where he will receive intensive treatment for coronaviru...
Reuters 2020-10-06 20:09:07
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...
-- 2020-10-06 19:33:32
Kuwait's new emir has asked the Gulf state's cabinet to carry on its duties and prepare for parliamentary elections due this year after the prime minister handed in his government's resignation, repor...
-- 2020-10-06 17:38:30
Britain has rationed its supplies of the antiviral drug remdesivir and is prioritising COVID-19 patients who need it most in the face of rising demand, Britain’s health ministry said on Tuesday,...
-- 2020-10-06 16:46:28
Britain’s Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and US scientist Andrea Ghez won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe...
-- 2020-10-06 16:35:30
Singapore’s prime minister testified in court on Tuesday in his defamation case against a blogger who shared an online article linking him to Malaysia’s 1MBD money-laundering scandal. As...
-- 2020-10-06 16:18:28
China is in talks to have its locally-produced COVID-19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organization, as a step toward making them available for international use, a WHO official said on Tuesday...
-- 2020-10-06 12:43:57
Singapore is offering a one-off payment to encourage people to have babies during the coronavirus pandemic. The worry is that citizens are putting off parenthood as they struggle with financial stres...
REUTERS 2020-10-06 10:38:49
Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other on Monday of attacking civilian areas and said the death toll was rising from the deadliest fighting in the South Caucasus region for more than 25 years. NAT...
Reuters 2020-10-06 10:07:19
US President Donald Trump told Americans “to get out there” and not fear Covid-19 as he returned to the White House on Monday (local time) after a three-night hospital stay to be treated f...
-- 2020-10-05 21:17:21
The head of Saudi Arabia’s Chambers of Commerce has called for a boycott of Turkish products amid merchants’ reports that animosity between Ankara and Riyadh is hindering the flow of goods...
-- 2020-10-05 17:24:53
President Donald Trump could be discharged from the hospital where he is being treated for COVID-19 as soon as Monday, according to his doctors, although his condition remains unclear and outside expe...
-- 2020-10-05 16:42:30
Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Monday of attacking civilian areas on a ninth day of fighting, the deadliest in the South Caucasus region for more than 25 years. Hundreds of people were...
Reuters 2020-10-05 16:34:28
Two American and one British-born scientist won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work in identifying the Hepatitis C virus, which causes cirrhosis and liver cancer, the award-giving...
Reuters 2020-10-05 13:14:29
Nine US states have reported record increases in Covid-19 cases over the last seven days, mostly in the upper Midwest and West where chilly weather is forcing more activities indoors. On Saturday alo...
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