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India's Covid-19 cases top global rank as more of economy opens

REUTERS 2020-08-31 14:54:19

India reported 78,512 novel coronavirus infections on Monday, more than any other country but fewer than the previous day when it posted the world’s biggest, single-day tally, as authorities loo...

India says foils new Chinese attempt to alter status quo at disputed border

Reuters 2020-08-31 12:54:28

India said on Monday it had foiled an attempt by Chinese troops to change the status quo on their disputed and ill-defined border in a fresh flare-up between the two nuclear-armed countries. “O...

Democrats oppose Trump's visit to Wisconsin

Reuters 2020-08-31 09:50:38

Democrats said Donald Trump should not visit the Wisconsin city where protests erupted last week after a Black man was shot in the back by a white police officer, while the Republican president said &...

Australia reports record one-day rise in Covid-19 deaths

-- 2020-08-31 09:31:58

Australia reported a record daily rise in Covid-19 deaths on Monday, although the number of new infections in the country’s virus epicentre fell to a near two-month low. Victoria state said its...

US Covid-19 cases approach 0.6m as Midwest, schools face outbreaks

-- 2020-08-30 22:14:16

US cases of the novel coronavirus were approaching six million on Sunday as many Midwest states reported increasing infections, according to a Reuters tally, reports Reuters. Iowa, North Dakota...

Boston to arrange the first-ever virtual marathon

-- 2020-08-30 22:00:45

The first-ever virtual marathon is scheduled to take place at the beginning of next month in Boston, Massachusetts, reports AP/UNB. Like other events, the runners will run on track but in different p...

Mauritius fishermen try hard to save dolphins near oil spill

-- 2020-08-30 18:46:51

Fishermen battled on Sunday to save dozens of injured dolphins washed ashore in Mauritius where in recent days at least 40 of the animals were found dead in a lagoon near the site of an oil spill from...

Qatar sets new minimum wage, lifts restriction on changing jobs

-- 2020-08-30 18:42:21

Qatar on Sunday set a basic monthly minimum wage of 1,000 Qatari riyals ($274.6) and scrapped a rule requiring employers to consent to employees changing jobs. The announcement is the latest in a ser...

Death toll from Beirut port blast rises to 190

-- 2020-08-30 18:29:49

The death toll from this month’s Beirut port blast has risen to 190 with more than 6,500 injured and three people missing, Lebanon’s caretaker government said in a report on Sunday. Leban...

Israel hopes for signing deal with UAE by mid-September

-- 2020-08-30 18:24:24

Israel hopes to hold a signing ceremony in Washington for its normalisation deal with the United Arab Emirates by mid-September, a member of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ca...

Brazil's Pantanal, world's largest wetland, burns from above and below

-- 2020-08-30 17:22:32

The world’s largest wetland is ablaze, but the fire is often invisible. In Brazil’s Pantanal, the vegetation compacted under the marshy flood water during the wet season dries out as pond...

400 migrants stranded in central Mediterranean

-- 2020-08-30 17:18:34

Nearly 400 refugees and migrants remained stranded in the central Mediterranean after an overcrowded rescue vessel was emptied of all the rescued people on Saturday. The German-flagged Louise Michel,...

One shot dead in Portland

-- 2020-08-30 16:38:24

One person was shot dead in Portland late on Saturday as protesters from rival groups clashed in the northwest U.S. city, which has seen frequent demonstrations for months that have at times turned vi...

Afghan president names council for peace deal with Taliban

-- 2020-08-30 16:35:14

Afghanistan's president has appointed a council for national reconciliation, which will have final say on whether the government will sign a peace deal with the Taliban after what are expected to be p...

Corona epicentre shifts to South Asia as India sets global record with rise in cases

Reuters 2020-08-30 15:35:55

India on Sunday reported the biggest single-day jump in coronavirus infections of any nation in the Covid-19 pandemic, as the epicentre shifts to the south Asian giant. India’s 78,761 cases exc...

Restaurant collapse in China’s Shanxi kills 29

-- 2020-08-30 14:52:01

Twenty-nine people were killed and seven seriously injured when a restaurant collapsed in northern China’s Shanxi province, the country’s emergencies ministry media said on Sunday. The bu...

Countries must search for victims of enforced disappearances: UN experts

-- 2020-08-30 14:40:30

UN human rights experts have said countries must continue to search for victims of enforced disappearances even during the Covid-19 pandemic, UNB reports. "We renew our call for all states that have...

Road to peace between China, India blocked: SCMP

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-08-30 12:58:05

India and China continue to build roads in the remote Himalayan region blocking the road to peace between the two countries, says an article in South China Morning Post (SCMP). “Border talks be...

Belarus revokes accreditations of journalists covering protests for foreign media

Reuters 2020-08-30 12:52:34

Belarus has revoked the accreditations of some journalists working for foreign media and covering anti-government protests that erupted after a disputed presidential election, news organisations and a...

Global coronavirus cases surpass 25 million

Reuters 2020-08-30 11:29:15

Global coronavirus cases surged past 25 million on Sunday, according to a Reuters tally, as India marked a worldwide record for daily new cases in the Covid-19 pandemic. The data showed steady global...

160 dead as flash floods hit Afghanistan

REUTERS 2020-08-30 10:55:09

Rescuers in Afghanistan continued to search amidst mud and rubble for missing people on Saturday after flash flooding this week killed around 160 people and washed away homes across the country, offic...

Restaurant collapse kills 17 in China

-- 2020-08-29 21:25:11

Seventeen people were killed in China's Shanxi Province after a two-story restaurant collapsed during a gathering Saturday. At least 28 other people were injured in the accident that took place at Xi...

Wuhan schools to reopen on Tuesday

-- 2020-08-29 20:15:57

Wuhan, Ground Zero for the COVID-19 pandemic and the Chinese city hardest hit by the coronavirus, will reopen all its schools and kindergartens on Tuesday. As many as 2,842 educational institutions a...

Party election to choose PM Abe's successor around Sept 15: Kyodo

-- 2020-08-29 19:33:49

Japan’s ruling party will pick Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s successor around September 15, Kyodo news agency said on Saturday, after Abe abruptly announced his resignation for health reason...

Afghanistan flash floods kill 160

Reuters 2020-08-29 19:15:29

Zuckerberg says Facebook's failure to eliminate militia page an 'operational mistake'

-- 2020-08-29 18:07:11

Facebook Inc (FB.O) made an “operational mistake” in not acting sooner to remove a page for a militia group that posted a call to arms in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the company’s Chief...

India can expect about 4,92,380 total deaths by December 1: US study

-- 2020-08-29 17:35:51

Even as India is poised for the next round of unlocking the economy on September 1, a new modelling study projects that the country could prevent more than 0.2 million Covid-19-linked deaths by Decemb...

Four Chinese COVID-19 vaccines undergoing phase-3 clinical trials

-- 2020-08-29 17:30:08

Four Chinese COVID-19 vaccine candidates have started international phase-3 clinical trials. Some of the phase-3 trials are expected to complete the first round of vaccinations in early September, wi...

Ample monsoon rains push India's summer crop plantings to record

-- 2020-08-29 17:28:13

Plentiful monsoon rains spurred Indian farmers to plant summer crops across a record swathe of farmland 7.0 per cent bigger than last year, promising a bumper harvest in Asia’s third-biggest eco...

Eight die in southern Philippine shootout

-- 2020-08-29 15:06:49

At least eight people were killed in an alleged shootout in the southern Philippine province of Cotabato around noontime on Saturday, police and local official said. A local official said the victims...