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Kamala Harris accepts historic vice presidential nod

Kamala Harris accepts historic vice presidential nod

-- 2020-08-20 13:25:04

US Senator Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president on Wednesday, imploring the country to elect Joe Biden in November and accusing President Donald Trump of failed leadersh...

Unintended pregnancies on the rise amid Covid-19 

Unintended pregnancies on the rise amid Covid-19 

-- 2020-08-19 21:52:36

Millions of women and girls have been facing unintended pregnancies worldwide due to lack of access to contraceptives and abortion services because of the coronavirus pandemic, reports AP, UNB. Sever...

Norway expels Russian diplomat over spy case

Norway expels Russian diplomat over spy case

-- 2020-08-19 18:54:18

Norway has decided to expel a Russian diplomat following the recent arrest in Oslo of a Norwegian citizen suspected of espionage. Norwegian police on Monday said the Norwegian man was suspected of il...

Pope warns rich countries against Covid-19 vaccine nationalism

Pope warns rich countries against Covid-19 vaccine nationalism

-- 2020-08-19 17:36:35

Rich countries should not hoard a coronavirus vaccine and should only give pandemic-related bailouts to companies committed to protecting the environment, helping the most needy and the ‘common...

Most COVID-19 transmissions happen in homes, UK data shows

Most COVID-19 transmissions happen in homes, UK data shows

-- 2020-08-19 16:59:50

Britain is unlikely to follow France in ordering people to wear face coverings at work because its test and trace scheme shows most people catch COVID-19 in house-to-house transmission. "We are not c...

China-developed vaccine against African swine fever effective, to enter expanding trials

China-developed vaccine against African swine fever effective, to enter expanding trials

Global Times 2020-08-19 16:06:51

A China-developed vaccine that protects pigs from African swine fever (ASF) will likely be used to vaccinate about 10,000 pigs in the expanded clinical and production trial stage, after previous tests...

Mali president resigns after detention by military, deepening crisis

Mali president resigns after detention by military, deepening crisis

-- 2020-08-19 11:57:08

Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned on Tuesday and dissolved parliament hours after mutinying soldiers detained him at gunpoint, plunging a country already facing a jihadist insurgency and...

Democrats nominate Joe Biden for president, vowing to end Trump 'chaos'

Democrats nominate Joe Biden for president, vowing to end Trump 'chaos'

-- 2020-08-19 11:53:46

Democrats formally nominated Joe Biden for president on Tuesday, vowing his election would repair a pandemic-battered America and put an end to the chaos that has defined Republican President Donald T...

Covid-19 disrupts child protection services in over 100 countries: UNICEF

Covid-19 disrupts child protection services in over 100 countries: UNICEF

-- 2020-08-18 19:31:39

Children in more than 100 countries are at risk of violence, exploitation and abuse due to the disruption of important violence prevention and response services during the Covid-19 pandemic. Children...

Michelle Obama presses fight for Biden with attack on Trump

Michelle Obama presses fight for Biden with attack on Trump

-- 2020-08-18 18:39:06

Former first lady Michelle Obama launched a blistering attack on President Donald Trump on Monday and urged Americans to elect Democrat Joe Biden in November to end the chaos she said had been created...

How the coronavirus changed US political conventions, perhaps forever

How the coronavirus changed US political conventions, perhaps forever

REUTERS 2020-08-18 14:53:54

The US political convention, a presidential campaign ritual dating to the 1830s, is being reinvented on the fly after being short-circuited by the coronavirus pandemic - much like the campaign itself....

‘Impossible’ that Beirut port blast was caused by Hezbollah arms, says president

‘Impossible’ that Beirut port blast was caused by Hezbollah arms, says president

-- 2020-08-18 14:16:20

Lebanese President Michel Aoun dismissed as “impossible” the chance that a vast explosion in Beirut’s port this month was caused by a blast from a deposit of Hezbollah arms, but said...

Migrants return to Delhi as India's Covid-19 deaths top 50,000

Migrants return to Delhi as India's Covid-19 deaths top 50,000

-- 2020-08-18 10:28:00

India’s Covid-19 deaths topped 50,000 on Monday, five months after the country reported its first such fatality, as migrant workers poured back into major cities in hopes of regaining work after...

Pakistani army chief visits Saudi Arabia to revive ties strained over Kashmir

Pakistani army chief visits Saudi Arabia to revive ties strained over Kashmir

-- 2020-08-17 19:28:47

Pakistan’s army chief was visiting Saudi Arabia on Monday in an effort to ease a row between the two countries over policy towards the disputed region of Kashmir. The argument, brought on by Pa...

China confirms its first Covid-19 vaccine patent

China confirms its first Covid-19 vaccine patent

Xinhua 2020-08-17 18:31:51

National Intellectual Property Administration has granted the China's first patent for a COVID-19 vaccine. The patent was jointly applied for by a research team with the Academy of Military Sciences...

Malaysian court jails teenager for murdering 23 people in school fire

Malaysian court jails teenager for murdering 23 people in school fire

-- 2020-08-17 18:00:15

A Malaysian court on Monday jailed a teenager for killing 23 people in a fire that he started at a religious boarding school in 2017, national news agency Bernama reported, in what was one of the wors...

11 prisoners shot dead in Papua New Guinea

11 prisoners shot dead in Papua New Guinea

Xinhua 2020-08-17 17:00:40

Eleven prisoners were shot dead while 33 others remained absconding following a mass jailbreak in Papua New Guinea's (PNG) second largest city, Lae. One prisoner was recaptured by the jail authoritie...

Back to the paddy fields. Covid smashes Indian middle-class dreams

Back to the paddy fields. Covid smashes Indian middle-class dreams

Reuters 2020-08-17 15:29:31

Until late March, Ashish Kumar was helping to make plastic boxes for Ferrero Rocher praline chocolates and the plastic spoons tucked inside Kinder Joy eggs to scoop out the milky sweet cream inside....

South Korea battles worst virus outbreak in months

South Korea battles worst virus outbreak in months

Reuters 2020-08-17 14:23:58

South Korea warned on Monday of a looming novel coronavirus crisis as new outbreaks flared, including one linked to a church where more than 300 members of the congregation have been infected but hund...

India's Congress seeks probe into Facebook's treatment of BJP

India's Congress seeks probe into Facebook's treatment of BJP

Reuters 2020-08-17 12:29:37

India’s main opposition Congress party called on Sunday for a parliamentary panel to investigate what it said was favourable treatment by Facebook’s India team towards the country’s...

New Zealand’s Ardern postpones election as coronavirus flares up

New Zealand’s Ardern postpones election as coronavirus flares up

-- 2020-08-17 12:21:14

New Zealand’s prime minister postponed the country’s general election on Monday by a month to Oct. 17 as the city of Auckland remains in lockdown due to a new outbreak of the coronavirus....

At least seven die after gunmen attack Mogadishu hotel

At least seven die after gunmen attack Mogadishu hotel

Reuters 2020-08-17 09:56:45

Militants stormed a high-end seaside hotel in Mogadishu on Sunday, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 20 as they detonated a car bomb then opened fire with assault rifles in the late...

UAE summons Iranian diplomat over 'unacceptable' Rouhani speech

UAE summons Iranian diplomat over 'unacceptable' Rouhani speech

Reuters 2020-08-16 23:29:01

The United Arab Emirates has summoned Iran's charge d'affaires in Abu Dhabi in response to a speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that the foreign ministry described as "unacceptable", state new...

India sends team to Mauritius to address oil spill

India sends team to Mauritius to address oil spill

-- 2020-08-16 22:15:48

India has sent technical equipment and a team of specialists to Mauritius to help local authorities deal with an environmental crisis after an oil spill from a Japanese ship, a government official sai...

Telephone lines between UAE, Israel open

Telephone lines between UAE, Israel open

-- 2020-08-16 19:32:14

Telephone lines between the United Arab Emirates and Israel were open on Sunday in a development the Israeli communications minister hailed as important for normalising ties between the countries. Is...

Trump considering pardon for leaker Edward Snowden

Trump considering pardon for leaker Edward Snowden

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

US President Donald Trump is considering a pardon for Edward Snowden, the former US National Security Agency contractor - now living in Russia - whose spectacular leaks shook the US intelligence commu...

Hundreds join Thai anti-government protest

Hundreds join Thai anti-government protest

-- 2020-08-16 15:01:58

More than a thousand protesters gathered in Thailand’s capital Bangkok on Sunday to demand the resignation of the government, changes to the constitution and an end to the harassment of oppositi...

South Korea accuses religious sect leader as Covid-19 cases surge

South Korea accuses religious sect leader as Covid-19 cases surge

-- 2020-08-16 13:08:38

South Korea accused the leader of a religious sect on Sunday of violating self-isolation rules and obstructing investigations into the country’s biggest outbreak of new coronavirus in five month...

South Africa eases lockdown as ‘outbreak reaches peak’

South Africa eases lockdown as ‘outbreak reaches peak’

-- 2020-08-16 12:31:05

South Africa's president has said coronavirus infections appear to have peaked in the country, as he announced a sweeping relaxation of lockdown measures. President Cyril Ramaphosa said nearly all re...

Landslide in Nepal claims 18 lives; 21 missing

Landslide in Nepal claims 18 lives; 21 missing

-- 2020-08-16 10:29:27

The personnel from Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and Nepal Army along with local people continued on Sunday to search for missing people in a massive landslide that has killed at least 18 people in...