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North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in coma, sister Kim Yo-jong to take over: Reports

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in coma, sister Kim Yo-jong to take over: Reports

-- 2020-08-24 15:37:04

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is reportedly in a coma and his sister Kim Yo-jong will be exercising de facto control over national and international matters, several media outlets said quoting a for...

Christchurch shooter emotionless, ‘wanted to kill more Muslims’

Christchurch shooter emotionless, ‘wanted to kill more Muslims’

REUTERS 2020-08-24 13:26:40

A white supremacist who killed 51 people at two mosques in New Zealand last year watched without emotion on Monday as relatives of his victims recounted the horror of a massacre which prosecutors said...

Another hospital visit by Japan PM Abe stokes health worries

Another hospital visit by Japan PM Abe stokes health worries

REUTERS 2020-08-24 10:51:01

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a Tokyo hospital on Monday for a second time within days, stoking concern about his ability to stay on as leader due to health issues and fatigue from tackli...

‘Facebook played role in Myanmar violence’

‘Facebook played role in Myanmar violence’

FE Online Report 2020-08-23 23:49:57

Rohingya rights groups accused the social media platform, Facebook, that it had a role in the violence in Myanmar that forced the minority Muslims to move to Bangladesh. Some four rohingya right grou...

India's ambition to be a power house of renewable energy

India's ambition to be a power house of renewable energy

Muhammad Zamir 2020-08-23 23:38:36

India's economy has been a leader among developing nations, with gross domestic product (GDP) growing at 6.9 per cent between financial year (FY) 2012 and FY 2018. Energy and electricity demand has gr...

NZ mosque shooter arrives at Christchurch for sentencing

NZ mosque shooter arrives at Christchurch for sentencing

Reuters 2020-08-23 19:22:47

The suspected white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers last year, a massacre that prompted a global campaign to stamp out online hate, arrived in Christchurch on Sunday ahead of sentencing h...

India coronavirus cases cross 3.0m mark as economy opens up

India coronavirus cases cross 3.0m mark as economy opens up

Reuters 2020-08-23 19:15:16

The number of coronavirus infections in India crossed the 3.0 million mark with 69,239 new cases reported on Sunday even as the country opened up various sectors from a lockdown that ground businesses...

California seeks assistance as wildfires threaten communities

California seeks assistance as wildfires threaten communities

-- 2020-08-23 17:25:14

Nearly two dozen massive wildfires continued to ravage parts of California on Saturday, fueled by high temperatures and ongoing lightning strikes, including 100 that hit on Friday, the California Depa...

Coronavirus spread largely among under 40-year-olds in France

Coronavirus spread largely among under 40-year-olds in France

-- 2020-08-23 14:02:34

The new coronavirus is circulating four times more among people under 40 in France than over among 65-year-olds. However, he warned that contamination was on the rise among the elderly and more vulne...

China approves human testing for coronavirus vaccine grown in insect cells

China approves human testing for coronavirus vaccine grown in insect cells

-- 2020-08-22 21:41:08

China has approved human testing for a potential coronavirus vaccine cultivated within insect cells, local government in the southwestern city of Chengdu said on Saturday. China is in a global race t...

Militants kill 13 in eastern Congo villages

Militants kill 13 in eastern Congo villages

Reuters 2020-08-22 19:12:44

Suspected Islamist militants killed 13 people during raids on two villages in eastern Congo, the army and a village chief said, the latest in a spate of attacks the United Nations says may constitute...

Wildfires: California governor urges residents to flee

Wildfires: California governor urges residents to flee

-- 2020-08-22 18:25:57

Hundreds of wildfires burning across Central and Northern California that have already killed six people more than doubled in size on Friday, becoming some of the largest in state history and threaten...

India coronavirus cases jump by record as tally nears 3 million

India coronavirus cases jump by record as tally nears 3 million

-- 2020-08-22 15:02:23

India reported a record daily jump of coronavirus infections on Saturday, bringing the total near 3 million and piling pressure on authorities to curb huge gatherings as a major religious festival beg...

South Korea expands social distancing rules as coronavirus outbreak grows

South Korea expands social distancing rules as coronavirus outbreak grows

-- 2020-08-22 13:12:26

South Korea said on Saturday it will roll out tougher social distancing guidelines to curb the spread of coronavirus nationwide as it battles a new outbreak of the disease spreading from the capital,...

Australia coronavirus hotspot state records 13 new deaths, stable infections

Australia coronavirus hotspot state records 13 new deaths, stable infections

-- 2020-08-22 12:17:45

Australia’s second most populous state, Victoria, reported 13 new coronavirus deaths in the 24 hours to Saturday morning, authorities said, while new infections in the hotspot state remained bel...

Coronavirus pandemic could be over within two years: WHO head

Coronavirus pandemic could be over within two years: WHO head

-- 2020-08-22 10:44:41

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says he hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be over in under two years. Speaking in Geneva on Friday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Spanish flu o...

New Zealand court set to sentence Christchurch mosque shooter

New Zealand court set to sentence Christchurch mosque shooter

-- 2020-08-21 20:32:10

A New Zealand court will begin hearings on Monday on the sentencing of a suspected white supremacist accused of killing 51 Muslim worshippers in a massacre that shocked the world and prompted a global...

Singapore scientists find coronavirus variant with milder infections

Singapore scientists find coronavirus variant with milder infections

-- 2020-08-21 19:44:45

Researchers in Singapore have discovered a new variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus that causes milder infections, according to a study published in The Lancet medical journal this week. The study sho...

Indonesia books 40m coronavirus vaccine doses from Sinovac

Indonesia books 40m coronavirus vaccine doses from Sinovac

-- 2020-08-21 19:24:37

China's Sinovac Biotech has committed to provide up to 40 million coronavirus vaccine doses to Indonesia's government between November and March, a minister said, as the Southeast Asian nation seeks t...

Turkey's historic Chora church switched to mosque

Turkey's historic Chora church switched to mosque

Reuters 2020-08-21 19:08:02

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan reconverted the historic Chora church, one of Istanbul's most celebrated Byzantine buildings, into a mosque on Friday, a month after opening the famed Hagia Sophia to...

Myanmar locks down Rakhine capital

Myanmar locks down Rakhine capital

Reuters 2020-08-21 18:23:27

Myanmar has locked down the capital of conflict-torn Rakhine State after an outbreak of a novel coronavirus strain that officials said was more infectious than that previously seen in the country. Ni...

Five dies in California wildfires

Five dies in California wildfires

-- 2020-08-21 14:42:45

At least five people were killed and over 30 civilians and firefighters have reportedly been injured in dozens of wildfires raging throughout Northern California. The death of a resident in Solano Co...

Ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon arrested

Ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon arrested

-- 2020-08-21 12:42:42

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has been arrested and pleaded not guilty after he was charged with defrauding donors in a scheme to help build the president’s signature wall along the US-Mexic...

Vowing to turn page on Trump era, Biden promises 'light' over 'darkness'

Vowing to turn page on Trump era, Biden promises 'light' over 'darkness'

REUTERS 2020-08-21 10:48:50

Joe Biden vowed to heal a country battered by a deadly pandemic and an economic catastrophe by uniting all Americans, while warning that President Donald Trump would go on stoking hatred and fear if e...

Russia to begin COVID-19 vaccine trials on 40,000 people next week

Russia to begin COVID-19 vaccine trials on 40,000 people next week

-- 2020-08-20 21:10:52

Mass testing of Russia's first potential COVID-19 vaccine to get domestic regulatory approval will involve more than 40,000 people and will be overseen by a foreign research body when it starts next w...

Iran detained UAE ship, crew on Monday: State TV

Iran detained UAE ship, crew on Monday: State TV

-- 2020-08-20 19:53:02

Iran seized a United Arab Emirates-registered ship violating its territorial waters this week, Iran's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, adding that UAE coastguards killed two Iranian fishermen on the...

UK helps reduce 31m tonnes of greenhouse emissions worldwide

UK helps reduce 31m tonnes of greenhouse emissions worldwide

FE Online Report 2020-08-20 18:58:17

UK has helped in reducing more than 31 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions globally in the last nine years equivalent to taking 6.7 million cars off the road for a year. UK International Clima...

Iran announces locally made ballistic and cruise missiles amid US tensions

Iran announces locally made ballistic and cruise missiles amid US tensions

REUTERS 2020-08-20 15:16:04

Iran unveiled a surface-to-surface ballistic missile that Defence Minister Amir Hatami said had a range of 1,400 kilometres and a new cruise missile on Thursday, ignoring US demands that Tehran halt i...

45 migrants die in shipwreck off Libya coast

45 migrants die in shipwreck off Libya coast

-- 2020-08-20 13:34:40

At least 45 migrants and refugees, including five children, have died in the deadliest shipwreck off Libya this year, the UN refugee agency says. They were among more than 80 people on board a vessel...

India reports record daily jump of 69,652 in coronavirus infections

India reports record daily jump of 69,652 in coronavirus infections

Reuters 2020-08-20 13:28:00

India reported a record daily jump of 69,652 coronavirus infections on Thursday, taking the total number of cases to 2.84 million, data from the federal health ministry showed. It reported 977 new de...