-- 2020-08-16 10:19:05
US President Donald Trump's younger brother, Robert Trump, died on Saturday night at the age of 71, according to the White House. "It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, pe...
-- 2020-08-15 21:46:07
The United States said on Friday it had confiscated four Iranian fuel shipments that were bound for Venezuela, disrupting a key supply line for both Tehran and Caracas as they defied US sanctions. US...
-- 2020-08-15 21:18:48
India great and World Cup-winning captain MS Dhoni has retired, reports BBC. Dhoni, 39, led India to the World Twenty20 title in 2007 and World Cup glory in 2011. "Thanks a lot for your love and sup...
AP 2020-08-15 19:39:31
Pressure is growing on the French government to require masks in all workplaces and everywhere in public as coronavirus infections resurge. Paris police stepped up mask patrols Saturday as the French...
Xinhua 2020-08-15 19:02:22
The Maldives has received foreign aid amounting to 197 million US dollars amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, local media citing the President's Office reported here Saturday. Policy Secretary of the Presi...
-- 2020-08-15 18:06:42
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaking on the 75th anniversary of Japan’s World War Two surrender, pledged never to repeat the tragedy of war and Emperor Naruhito expressed “deep rem...
-- 2020-08-15 17:55:21
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepali counterpart KP Sharma Oli spoke on Saturday for the first time since a diplomatic spat over a map and a disputed area of territory erupted earlier th...
-- 2020-08-15 16:50:54
India’s confirmed coronavirus cases have crossed 2.5 million with another biggest single-day spike of 65,002 in the past 24 hours, reports AP, UNB. India is behind the United States and Brazil...
-- 2020-08-15 16:03:41
A spike in new coronavirus cases in South Korea has prompted authorities to reimpose tighter social distancing curbs in Seoul, but that didn’t stop thousands of demonstrators from protesting aga...
Reuters 2020-08-15 15:19:19
Russia has started manufacturing its new vaccine for Covid-19, the Interfax news agency reported on Saturday, citing the health ministry. Russia has said the vaccine, developed by Moscow’s Gama...
-- 2020-08-15 15:07:20
A prominent women’s rights advocate and member of the Afghan team tasked with negotiating with the Taliban sustained minor injuries in an attack in Kabul by unknown gunmen, officials said on Sat...
-- 2020-08-15 12:48:31
Crime in South Africa dropped by up to 40 per cent during the first three months of its lockdown, official figures show. The police minister said most types of crimes went down between April and June...
Reuters 2020-08-15 12:40:34
India is ready to mass produce Covid-19 vaccines when scientists give the go-ahead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his Independence Day speech on Saturday, also launching a national project to r...
-- 2020-08-15 11:04:40
Coronavirus cases in Latin America, the region of the world worst-affected by the pandemic, exceeded 6 million on Friday and continued to accelerate, according to a Reuters tally, as most of its natio...
REUTERS 2020-08-15 09:33:04
The United States lost a bid on Friday to extend a UN arms embargo on Iran as Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a summit of world leaders to avoid “confrontation” over a US threat...
-- 2020-08-14 18:20:08
Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee is in a comatose state, but his vital parameters are stable, the Research and Referral (R&R) Hospital in India said on Thursday morning. Mukherjee’s...
-- 2020-08-14 17:53:10
Militants attacked a police team in Kashmir on Friday, killing two officers and wounding one despite tight security in the disputed Muslim-majority region ahead of India's Independence Day. A group o...
-- 2020-08-14 16:28:58
Vietnam has registered to buy a Russian COVID-19 vaccine, state television reported on Friday, as it fights a new outbreak after going several months with no local cases. Russia said on Wednesday tha...
-- 2020-08-14 14:45:48
India’s coronavirus death toll rose to 48,040 on Friday, currently the fourth-highest in the world. The country has overtaken the UK whose death tally stands at 46,791, according to the data by...
Reuters 2020-08-14 12:36:26
The Afghan government has begun releasing the last Taliban prisoners from a final batch of 400 who the militants want freed before they agree to start peace negotiations, a security agency spokesman s...
REUTERS 2020-08-14 12:05:16
Israel talked of “history” and Palestinians of “betrayal” after Thursday’s surprise announcement of a deal to normalise relations between the Jewish state and the United...
Reuters 2020-08-14 10:42:47
Malaysia has decided to lift an earlier limit on the hiring of foreign workers meant to protect jobs for locals in most sectors, the Human Resources Ministry said late on Thursday. Last month, the mi...
REUTERS 2020-08-14 10:24:49
Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship, a move that reshapes the order of Middle East politics from the P...
-- 2020-08-14 10:10:44
The SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), with support from the Institute for Adult Learning (IAL), jointly launched the Training and Adult Education (TAE)...
Reuters 2020-08-13 11:45:26
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has angrily denied the existence of fires in the Amazon rainforest, calling it a “lie,” despite data produced by his own government showing that tho...
-- 2020-08-13 11:43:37
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai said on Thursday he was overwhelmed by the support he got after becoming the most high-profile person to be arrested under a new national security law and urged patien...
-- 2020-08-13 10:47:39
India reported another record daily rise in novel coronavirus infections on Thursday, while the death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 47,000. Infections grew by 66,999 on Thursday from a day earlier to...
-- 2020-08-12 22:49:56
Joe Biden’s selection of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate provides a brand-new target for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign that has struggled to find an effective lin...
-- 2020-08-12 20:08:10
A city in China's eastern Anhui province found the novel coronavirus on the packaging of shrimps from Ecuador in the latest instance of the virus being detected on imported products. The coronavirus...
-- 2020-08-12 18:21:24
Three people were killed in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru in India after violence erupted between police and protesters over a reported derogatory Facebook post about the Prophet Mohammad (SM)...
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