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Reuters 2020-08-12 13:39:26
When the police knocked on the door as 15-year-old Muskaan prepared to head to the temple in their village in northern India, the bride-to-be was distraught. With a sick father and unemployed brother...
Reuters 2020-08-12 13:23:16
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday picked Senator Kamala Harris as his choice for vice president, making her the first Black woman on a major-party US presidential ticket and givin...
-- 2020-08-12 12:27:44
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on leaders and adults everywhere to do everything possible to enable the youth to enjoy lives of safety, dignity and opportunity and contribute to the...
-- 2020-08-12 11:32:39
Coronavirus cases in France have nearly doubled in the past 24 hours as Prime Minister Jean Castex warned that the country had been going "the wrong way" for two weeks. The health ministry reported 1...
-- 2020-08-11 20:32:29
The World Health Organization (WHO) and Russian health authorities are discussing the process for possible WHO prequalification for its newly approved COVID-19 vaccine, a WHO spokesman said on Tuesday...
Reuters 2020-08-11 20:18:48
Russia has named its first approved COVID-19 vaccine 'Sputnik V' for foreign markets, a reference to the world's first satellite and what Moscow sees as its success at becoming the first country to ap...
-- 2020-08-11 17:55:46
In the murky story of how a cache of highly explosive ammonium nitrate ended up on the Beirut waterfront, one thing is clear — no one has ever publicly come forward to claim it, reports Reuters....
-- 2020-08-11 17:35:25
Pakistanis flocked to gyms, salons and restaurants that opened on Monday for the first time in five months after being shut to stop the spread of the coronavirus, reports Reuters. The South Asian co...
-- 2020-08-11 16:24:25
The head of a UN investigative body on Myanmar said Facebook has not released evidence of “serious international crimes”, despite vowing to work with investigators looking into abuses in t...
REUTERS 2020-08-11 15:48:01
Angry Lebanese said the government’s resignation on Monday did not come near to addressing the tragedy of last week’s Beirut explosion and demanded the removal of what they see as a corrup...
Reuters 2020-08-11 15:38:52
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a Covid-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing, a move ha...
REUTERS 2020-08-11 14:37:23
Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee was put on ventilator support after undergoing surgery having contracted Covid-19, local media reported on Tuesday, quoting unidentified sources at the militar...
-- 2020-08-11 12:35:09
Nepali has decided to extend suspension of domestic and international flights as well as public transport until August 31 amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The decision came on Monday as the Himalayan coun...
REUTERS 2020-08-11 11:59:58
Lebanese security officials warned the prime minister and president last month that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in Beirut’s port posed a security risk and could destroy the capital i...
Reuters 2020-08-11 11:30:23
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape is pressing ahead with plans to lift lockdown measures in the Pacific nation this week, even as a recent sharp spike in coronavirus infections worries heal...
REUTERS 2020-08-11 10:57:00
The UN Security Council is preparing to vote this week on a US proposal to extend an arms embargo on Iran, a move that some diplomats say is bound to fail and put the fate of a nuclear deal between Te...
-- 2020-08-11 10:47:45
Hong Kong’s Apple Daily tabloid responded with defiance on Tuesday to the arrest of owner Jimmy Lai under a new national security law imposed by Beijing, promising to “fight on” in a...
REUTERS 2020-08-11 09:07:26
Lebanon’s prime minister announced his government’s resignation on Monday, saying a huge explosion that devastated Beirut and triggered public outrage was the result of endemic corruption....
Reuters 2020-08-10 23:04:57
Lebanon's prime minister was set on Monday to announce the resignation of his government, the health minister said, after a devastating explosion in Beirut that has stirred public outrage and spurred...
Reuters 2020-08-10 22:59:47
Omeros Corp said on Monday its experimental treatment helped six patients, with acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by COVID-19, recover and get discharged from the hospital, sending the drug d...
-- 2020-08-10 17:59:17
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said internal border closures were unlikely to lift before Christmas, as the country on Monday reported a record single-day rise in Covid-19 deaths, reports Re...
-- 2020-08-10 17:21:46
New Zealand reported no new Covid-19 case on Monday for the fifth consecutive day after managing isolation and quarantine facilities. The health ministry of the country said the number of currently a...
Xinhua 2020-08-10 16:52:09
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey has become the third country to develop vaccines locally against COVID-19 after the United States and China according to the World Hea...
AP 2020-08-10 16:37:28
India registered 1,007 coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s total tally to 44,386 on Monday. Besides, the fresh coronavirus infections surged by another 62,064 cases, t...
AP 2020-08-10 16:32:44
Last week’s Beirut blast destroyed the 160-year-old landmark Sursock Palace, one of the most storied buildings in the Lebanese capital which withstood two world wars, the fall of the Ottoman Emp...
Reuters 2020-08-10 15:53:52
Iran said on Monday that countries should refrain from politicising the massive blast in Beirut last week, and that the United States should lift sanctions against Lebanon. “The blast should no...
Reuters 2020-08-10 13:20:11
It is a national priority for children to return to school after months away from the classroom due to the coronavirus pandemic, a junior British health minister said on Monday. “Sadly we have...
REUTERS 2020-08-10 13:16:14
The death toll from landslide at a tea plantation in the southern Indian state of Kerala rose to 43 on Sunday with nearly two dozen people feared trapped, a senior official said. The landslide, cause...
Reuters 2020-08-10 12:54:07
Chinese government-linked hackers have been targeting US election infrastructure ahead of the 2020 presidential election, White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said on Sunday, ind...
-- 2020-08-10 12:52:36
Gunmen on motorcycles killed six French aid workers, a Nigerien guide and a driver in a wildlife park in Niger on Sunday, officials said. The group was attacked in a giraffe reserve just 65 km (40 mi...
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