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India's corona cases rise to 5.82 million

India's corona cases rise to 5.82 million

Reuters 2020-09-25 13:16:10

India’s coronavirus case tally surged to 5.82 million after it recorded 86,052 new infections in the last 24 hours, data from the health ministry showed on Friday. A total of 1,141 people died...

Top US Republicans assure voters of peaceful transition after splitting with Trump

Top US Republicans assure voters of peaceful transition after splitting with Trump

REUTERS 2020-09-25 12:10:39

US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans on Thursday repudiated President Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, assuring American voters th...

Global coronavirus cases surpass 32m

Global coronavirus cases surpass 32m

-- 2020-09-25 11:05:24

Global coronavirus cases surged past 32 million on Friday, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The global case count reached 32, 136, 855 wit...

US imposes fresh sanctions on Iran

US imposes fresh sanctions on Iran

Reuters 2020-09-25 10:48:24

The United States has blacklisted several Iranian officials and entities over alleged gross violations of human rights, including slapping sanctions on a judge it said was involved in the case of an I...

Global facility formed to help local communities recover better from COVID-19

Global facility formed to help local communities recover better from COVID-19

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-24 19:35:27

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Global Compact and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) have established the COVID-19 Private Sector Global Facility on Thursday, an init...

UAE reopens all seven regions to foreigners after six months

UAE reopens all seven regions to foreigners after six months

REUTERS 2020-09-24 16:18:31

The United Arab Emirates will resume issuing visas to foreign visitors to all seven of its regions as of Thursday after a six-month suspension imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic, state media repo...

Italian PM says targeted closures might be applied to contain coronavirus spread

Italian PM says targeted closures might be applied to contain coronavirus spread

-- 2020-09-24 13:08:47

Italy may apply well-targeted closures where necessary to contain the spread of the new coronavirus while another general lockdown is unlikely, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told la Stampa daily in an...

Trudeau says Canada enters second wave of pandemic

Trudeau says Canada enters second wave of pandemic

Reuters 2020-09-24 11:41:07

Canada has entered a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday (local time), warning that the country was on the brink of a surge if people did not follo...

US election will end up at Supreme Court, says Trump

US election will end up at Supreme Court, says Trump

REUTERS 2020-09-24 11:00:57

US President Donald Trump declined on Wednesday to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the November 03 election to Democratic rival Joe Biden and said he expected the election battle to...

J&J becomes fourth company to start Phase 3 trials of Covid-19 vaccine in US

J&J becomes fourth company to start Phase 3 trials of Covid-19 vaccine in US

-- 2020-09-24 10:35:50

A fourth Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating an investigational Covid-19 vaccine has begun enrolling adult volunteers, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on Wednesday. The trial is de...

Death toll from India building collapse climbs to 35

Death toll from India building collapse climbs to 35

-- 2020-09-23 20:01:20

The death toll from an apartment building collapse on the outskirts of Mumbai, the largest city of India, rose to 35, a senior government official said on Wednesday. Although three days have passed,...

Paris Eiffel tower evacuated: Security source

Paris Eiffel tower evacuated: Security source

-- 2020-09-23 17:34:50

Paris’s Eiffel Tower has been evacuated, a security source told Reuters on Wednesday. The source could not confirm whether the evacuation followed a bomb threat, as some media reported.

500 pilot whales found stranded in island state in Australia

500 pilot whales found stranded in island state in Australia

-- 2020-09-23 17:06:00

Around 500 pilot whales were found stranded in Australia’s island state of Tasmania on Wednesday, reports AP/UNB. Authorities had already been working to rescue survivors among an estimated 270...

Malaysia’s Anwar says has ‘strong’ majority to form new govt

Malaysia’s Anwar says has ‘strong’ majority to form new govt

-- 2020-09-23 13:19:59

Malaysia’s PKR president Anwar Ibrahim today (Wednesday) announced in a press conference that he has obtained a "strong, formidable and convincing" support from members of Parliament to form a g...

UN Rapporteur criticises Myanmar for unfulfilled Rohingya pledge

UN Rapporteur criticises Myanmar for unfulfilled Rohingya pledge

-- 2020-09-23 12:03:38

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Thomas Andrews, has questioned Myanmar for not fulfilling its commitment over Rohingya repatriation. "Where is justice for those...

Saudi Arabia to reallow umrah pilgrimage from Oct 4

Saudi Arabia to reallow umrah pilgrimage from Oct 4

Reuters 2020-09-23 11:08:10

Saudi Arabia will allow pilgrims residing inside the country to undertake the umrah pilgrimage beginning on October 4, after a seven-month pause due to coronavirus concerns, state news agency SPA repo...

US Covid-19 deaths surpass 200,000 mark

US Covid-19 deaths surpass 200,000 mark

-- 2020-09-23 10:25:14

The US coronavirus death toll has passed 200,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). More than 6.8 million people are known to have been infected in the US, more than in any other...

At UN, Trump demands action against China over coronavirus

At UN, Trump demands action against China over coronavirus

Reuters 2020-09-23 10:14:52

US President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that China must be held accountable for having “unleashed” Covid-19 on the world, prompting Beijing to accuse...

Britain imposes six-month curbs against second wave

Britain imposes six-month curbs against second wave

-- 2020-09-22 21:26:37

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged his countrymen to work from home where possible and ordered bars and restaurants to close early to tackle a fast-spreading second wave of COVID-19 with n...

Russia to share legal risks of COVID-19 vaccine

Russia to share legal risks of COVID-19 vaccine

Reuters 2020-09-22 20:09:15

Russia is so confident in its COVID-19 vaccine that it will shoulder some of the legal liability should anything go wrong, rather than requiring buyers to take on the full risk, the head of the state...

Myanmar rejects calls to postpone election despite virus surge

Myanmar rejects calls to postpone election despite virus surge

-- 2020-09-22 18:25:26

Myanmar plans to push ahead with a November general election despite calls from opposition parties to postpone it because of a surge in novel coronavirus cases, officials said. The Southeast Asian co...

TikTok removes over 104m videos in first-half

TikTok removes over 104m videos in first-half

-- 2020-09-22 18:20:04

ByteDance-owned short-video app TikTok said on Tuesday it removed over 104 million videos from its platform globally in the first half of the year for violating guidelines or terms of service, reports...

Thrice-widowed Afghan woman prays that peace will save her fourth husband

Thrice-widowed Afghan woman prays that peace will save her fourth husband

REUTERS 2020-09-22 14:21:26

Heavily pregnant Taj Bibi prays for her fourth husband as the Afghan soldier sets off to battle the Taliban, hoping his fate won’t be the same as that of his three brothers, her first three husb...

Covid-19: India reports lowest daily cases in almost a month

Covid-19: India reports lowest daily cases in almost a month

Reuters 2020-09-22 13:41:25

India reported 75,083 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to federal health data released on Tuesday, the lowest daily tally in almost a month. There were 1,053 deaths...

Two die, 20 wounded as floods hit Indonesian capital

Two die, 20 wounded as floods hit Indonesian capital

-- 2020-09-22 13:35:07

Floods and landslides have struck Indonesia's capital of Jakarta and its surrounding areas, leaving two people dead, one missing and 20 others injured, officials said on Tuesday. A river overflowed i...

Beijing unlikely to approve Oracle, Walmart's 'unfair' TikTok deal

Beijing unlikely to approve Oracle, Walmart's 'unfair' TikTok deal

Reuters 2020-09-22 13:21:34

Beijing is unlikely to approve an “unfair” deal Oracle and Walmart said they have struck with ByteDance over the future of video-streaming app TikTok, state-backed newspaper Global Times s...

China expanding mass labour programme in Tibet

China expanding mass labour programme in Tibet

Reuters 2020-09-22 12:09:37

China is pushing growing numbers of Tibetan rural labourers off the land and into recently built military-style training centres where they are turned into factory workers, mirroring a programme in th...

Afghan negotiators split even on peace basics like ceasefire, women’s rights

Afghan negotiators split even on peace basics like ceasefire, women’s rights

REUTERS 2020-09-22 11:34:41

The Afghan government and Taliban militants remain far apart on even the most basic issues a week into talks meant to end two decades of war that has killed tens of thousands of people, diplomats and...

US, China absent from global vaccine plan joined by 156 nations

US, China absent from global vaccine plan joined by 156 nations

Reuters 2020-09-22 11:09:20

Some 156 nations have joined a global scheme for fair distribution of future vaccines against Covid-19, an alliance led by the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, but superpowers China and...

Mexico’s confirmed coronavirus cases cross 700,000, actual toll unknown

Mexico’s confirmed coronavirus cases cross 700,000, actual toll unknown

Reuters 2020-09-22 10:48:29

Mexico surpassed 700,000 confirmed coronavirus cases on Monday even as health authorities cited what they described as nearly two months of slowing infection rates. On Monday, the Health Ministry rep...