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Indians flocking to astrologers to fight corona

Indians flocking to astrologers to fight corona

REUTERS 2020-08-29 10:55:25

In his golden-hued office, decked out with peacock feathers and crystal balls, Indian mystic healer and astrologer Sanjay Sharma is busy offering his clients a peek into their future as the Covid-19 p...

J&J to start mid-stage vaccine trials in three European countries

J&J to start mid-stage vaccine trials in three European countries

Reuters 2020-08-28 20:30:28

Johnson & Johnson's Janssen unit will begin mid-stage trials for its coronavirus vaccine in Spain, the Netherlands and Germany next week, Spain's health minister said on Friday, as the US drugmake...

China warns Norway against granting Nobel Peace Prize to Hong Kong democracy activists

China warns Norway against granting Nobel Peace Prize to Hong Kong democracy activists

-- 2020-08-28 19:57:13

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, on a rare visit to Norway, warned Oslo against granting the Nobel Peace Prize to Hong Kong pro-democracy activists, much on the lines of awarding the prize to China&r...

New Zealand mosque shooter sentenced to life without parole

New Zealand mosque shooter sentenced to life without parole

-- 2020-08-28 19:50:20

The white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, reports thehindubusinessline.com citing PTI....

Japanese PM Abe resigns over worsening health

Japanese PM Abe resigns over worsening health

REUTERS 2020-08-28 15:13:18

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving premier, announced his resignation because of poor health on Friday, ending a stint at the helm of the world’s third-biggest economy in w...

Indian FM sees Ladakh situation as “most serious” since 1962

Indian FM sees Ladakh situation as “most serious” since 1962

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-08-28 15:06:30

The stand-off with China in eastern Ladakh is "the most serious situation” since 1962, Indian Foreign Minister Dr S Jaishankar has said, referring to the then Indo-China war, NDTV reports. "Thi...

UN chief urges India to quickly move to clean solar power

UN chief urges India to quickly move to clean solar power

AP 2020-08-28 13:58:21

India should commit to carbon neutrality by ending fossil fuel subsidies and investing in clean solar power as it mobilises trillion of dollars to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, the UN chief s...

Japan PM Abe set to resign, citing worsening health

Japan PM Abe set to resign, citing worsening health

REUTERS 2020-08-28 13:33:32

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to resign, public broadcaster NHK said on Friday, adding that the long-serving leader wanted to avoid causing problems for the government due to the worsening...

Trump accepts nomination for reelection

Trump accepts nomination for reelection

-- 2020-08-28 12:16:47

US President Donald Trump accepted the Republican Party's nomination for reelection in a speech from the White House South Lawn on Thursday night. "My fellow Americans, tonight, with a heart full of...

Iran relents on IAEA inspections at two sites, ending standoff

Iran relents on IAEA inspections at two sites, ending standoff

REUTERS 2020-08-27 10:41:43

Iran said on Wednesday it was ending a months-long standoff with the UN nuclear watchdog by granting it access to two sites suspected of once hosting secret activities, easing diplomatic pressure on T...

New Zealand court sentences mosque shooter to life imprisonment

New Zealand court sentences mosque shooter to life imprisonment

-- 2020-08-27 09:51:22

A New Zealand court sentenced a man who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand's deadliest shooting to life in prison without parole, the first time such a sentence has been handed down in the co...

US military presence needed in Asia, Philippine FM says

US military presence needed in Asia, Philippine FM says

-- 2020-08-26 20:28:18

Philippine Foreign Minister Teodoro Locsin on Wednesday said the United States military presence in Asia is needed as rivalry between Washington and Beijing intensifies. The two powers are arguing ov...

Facebook shares data with UN on int’l crimes in Myanmar

Facebook shares data with UN on int’l crimes in Myanmar

-- 2020-08-26 18:51:49

Facebook has shared data with United Nations investigators probing international crimes in Myanmar, after the lead investigator said the company was withholding evidence. A Facebook representative on...

UN chief calls for greater attention to Rohingya crisis

UN chief calls for greater attention to Rohingya crisis

-- 2020-08-26 17:10:22

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for greater attention to the Rohingya refugee crisis and addressing its root causes. He said conditions for the safe, voluntary, dignified and...

Flash flood kills more than 70 in Afghanistan

Flash flood kills more than 70 in Afghanistan

-- 2020-08-26 16:50:02

A violent flash flood killed more than 70 people and destroyed hundreds of homes just north of Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday. The floods swept through Parwan province, which borders Kabul, in th...

India charges 19, including 7 Pakistanis, over Kashmir bombing

India charges 19, including 7 Pakistanis, over Kashmir bombing

-- 2020-08-26 16:41:34

India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) charged 19 people, including 7 Pakistani nationals, on Tuesday over a deadly bomb attack on a security convoy in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir last...

Christchurch shooting survivors, grieving families reject 'white supremacist' world view

Christchurch shooting survivors, grieving families reject 'white supremacist' world view

REUTERS 2020-08-26 16:31:14

The father of slain three-year-old Mucaad Ibrahim, the youngest victim in the New Zealand mosque shootings, told the white supremacist who gunned down his son that “true justice” awaited h...

Maldives former president Gayoom tests positive for Covid-19

Maldives former president Gayoom tests positive for Covid-19

REUTERS 2020-08-26 14:15:08

The former president of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, said he had tested positive for Covid-19, as the tourist-dependent island nation reports a pick-up in cases since re-opening its borders las...

Global coronavirus cases near 24 million: JHU

Global coronavirus cases near 24 million: JHU

-- 2020-08-26 13:57:54

The confirmed global coronavirus cases neared 24 million on Wednesday, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Besides, over 819,554 fatalities have been recorded globally,...

How India's Silicon Valley saw its Covid-19 success come undone

How India's Silicon Valley saw its Covid-19 success come undone

REUTERS 2020-08-26 10:46:15

On June 09, an Indian health education minister posted an infographic on Twitter showing Covid-19 infections and deaths in the city of Bengaluru were running about half the rate in New Zealand, a coun...

Dollar falls, European shares increase as markets buoyed by vaccine hopes   

Dollar falls, European shares increase as markets buoyed by vaccine hopes  

-- 2020-08-25 18:44:52

European shares opened higher on Tuesday, with market sentiment propped up by the United States and China saying they are still committed to their Phase One trade deal, and some increased optimism aro...

Over 60 survivors rescued from collapsed building in India

Over 60 survivors rescued from collapsed building in India

Reuters 2020-08-25 18:26:41

Rescue workers pulled more than 60 people alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in an industrial town near India's financial capital Mumbai, a senior official said on Tuesday, as rescue effort...

Trump, fellow Republicans paint dire portrait of a US under Biden

Trump, fellow Republicans paint dire portrait of a US under Biden

REUTERS 2020-08-25 11:05:00

President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans opened their national convention on Monday by painting a dire portrait of America if Democrat Joe Biden wins the White House in November, arguing he w...

Rohingya politicians excluded from Myanmar election

Rohingya politicians excluded from Myanmar election

-- 2020-08-25 10:41:18

Aspiring politician Abdul Rasheed was born in Myanmar and is one of the very few members of the Rohingya Muslim minority to have Myanmar citizenship. His father was a civil servant. But when the coun...

More than 60 survivors pulled from collapsed building in India

More than 60 survivors pulled from collapsed building in India

REUTERS 2020-08-25 09:54:45

Rescue workers pulled more than 60 people alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in an industrial town near India’s financial capital Mumbai, a senior official said on Tuesday, as rescue...

Congress rejects Sonia Gandhi’s request to step down

Congress rejects Sonia Gandhi’s request to step down

Reuters 2020-08-24 22:25:18

India's main opposition Congress party on Monday rejected a request from its leader, Sonia Gandhi, that she may be allowed to step down, after a rare challenge to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, which has d...

Twin bombings kill 15, wound scores in Philippines

Twin bombings kill 15, wound scores in Philippines

Reuters 2020-08-24 19:27:39

Twin blasts including a suicide bombing killed 15 people and wounded 75 others on a restive southern Philippine island on Monday, among them security forces and civilians, with Islamist militants susp...

Italy begins testing potential COVID-19 vaccine on volunteers

Italy begins testing potential COVID-19 vaccine on volunteers

Reuters 2020-08-24 18:50:25

Italy kicked off human trials of a potential COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, joining a global effort to develop a response to the virus which has shown signs of resurging in Europe. Rome's Lazzaro Spalla...

Global COVID-19 cases surge to 23.30m

Global COVID-19 cases surge to 23.30m

-- 2020-08-24 16:47:15

The confirmed global COVID-19 cases hit 23.3 million as of Monday morning, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Besides, over 807,000 fatalities have been recorded globa...

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi offers to resign after dissent letter

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi offers to resign after dissent letter

-- 2020-08-24 15:56:50

The leader of India’s main opposition Congress party offered to resign on Monday, domestic media said, after almost two dozen top leaders called for better decision-making in the party, which ha...