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-- 2020-08-10 10:33:44
The international community on Sunday pledged timely and sufficient aid, well-coordinated under the leadership of the United Nations (UN), to assist the Lebanese people hit by the massive explosions a...
-- 2020-08-10 10:33:40
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai became the highest-profile arrest under a new national security law on Monday, detained over suspected collusion with foreign forces as scores of police searched the o...
REUTERS 2020-08-10 10:07:39
Lebanese police fired tear gas to try to disperse rock-throwing protesters blocking a road near parliament in Beirut on Sunday in a second day of anti-government demonstrations triggered by last week&...
BBC 2020-08-09 19:38:40
At least 10 patients have died after a fire at a temporary Covid hospital in Vijayawada, south-east India. The fire broke out at Swarna Palace, a hotel being used to house patients, on Sunday morning...
Reuters 2020-08-09 18:40:52
Some Lebanese called on Sunday for a sustained uprising to topple their leaders amid public fury over this week's devastating explosion in Beirut, and the country's top Christian Maronite cleric said...
-- 2020-08-09 17:17:48
Leader of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna party Mahinda Rajapaksa took his oath as the nation's new prime minister on Sunday after his party secured a landslide victory in the recently-concluded parliamen...
AP 2020-08-09 16:58:51
The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday marked its 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, with a call to the world leaders including their own to do more for a nuclear weapons ban. At 11:02am,...
-- 2020-08-09 16:42:18
The operator of a Japanese bulk carrier which ran aground off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean apologised on Sunday for a major oil spill which officials and environmentalists say is creating an ecologic...
-- 2020-08-09 15:42:46
The Philippines on Sunday recorded 61 more coronavirus deaths, the highest daily increase in fatalities reported since July 18, taking the country’s death tally to 2,270. A health ministry bull...
Reuters 2020-08-09 15:31:30
Australia’s second-most populous state, Victoria, reported its deadliest day of the Covid-19 outbreak on Sunday, with 17 people dying, as police thwarted a planned anti-mask rally in the capital...
REUTERS 2020-08-09 15:23:18
Afghanistan agreed on Sunday to release 400 “hard-core” Taliban prisoners, paving the way for the beginning of peace talks aimed at ending more than 19 years of war. Under election-year p...
Reuters 2020-08-09 15:20:00
Lebanon’s Information Minister Manal Abdel Samad announced on Sunday her resignation, citing the failure of the government to carry out reforms and the catastrophic explosion that rocked Beirut...
-- 2020-08-09 14:38:28
UN Secretary General António Guterres has underscored that the inclusion and participation of the world’s 476 million indigenous peoples must be ensured in the response to the Covid-19 pa...
-- 2020-08-09 12:43:20
Mexico’s health ministry on Saturday reported 6,495 new confirmed coronavirus infections and 695 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 475,902 cases and 52,006 deaths. Off...
-- 2020-08-09 11:50:20
At least seven people died after a massive fire broke out at a hotel that was being used as a Covid-19 facility in India’s southern Andhra Pradesh state early on Sunday, police said. “Sev...
FE Online Report 2020-08-08 21:07:30
Speakers at a panel discussion on Saturday stressed the need for better solidarity, forging unity, innovation and ensuring good quality information among people to cope with the challenges of Covid-19...
-- 2020-08-08 19:06:18
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and other Chinese and Hong Kong officials, according to the US Treasury Department’s website. Meanwhile, Be...
-- 2020-08-08 18:13:37
Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun said on Friday its investigation into the biggest blast in Beirut’s history would examine whether it was caused by a bomb or other external interference, as...
-- 2020-08-08 17:54:34
The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder have been recovered from the site of an Indian passenger aircraft crash in a southern state, a top official at the Directorate General of Civil Avia...
AP 2020-08-08 16:47:04
India has witnessed 933 COVID-19 fatalities in the past 24 hours till Friday and fresh infections surged by another 61,537 cases to reach nearly 2.1 million. The Health Ministry says the total deaths...
-- 2020-08-08 13:23:21
Authorities in a city in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia issued a warning after a patient who had bubonic plague died of multiple organ failure, state media reported on Saturday. Cases of plague...
REUTERS 2020-08-08 13:20:22
The death toll from an Air India Express passenger aircraft accident has risen to 18, while 16 people have been severely injured, a senior government official said on Saturday. The Air India Express...
-- 2020-08-08 13:09:36
Temperatures have reached 36.4 degrees Celsius on Friday in Heathrow and Kew Gardens in London, making it the hottest August day in Britain since 2003, the Met Office said. Thousands of sun seekers...
REUTERS 2020-08-08 12:30:08
France and Germany have quit talks on reforming the World Health Organization in frustration at attempts by the United States to lead the negotiations, despite its decision to leave the WHO, three off...
REUTERS 2020-08-08 10:03:02
At least 17 people were killed and more than 100 injured when an Air India Express passenger plane repatriating Indians stranded by the CoviD-19 pandemic overshot the runway in heavy rain near the sou...
-- 2020-08-07 20:53:32
A landslide caused by torrential rains killed at least 15 tea garden workers in Kerala, a state on India's tropical Malabar Coast, on Friday. Rescue workers are searching for more than 50 people thou...
-- 2020-08-07 20:46:39
Veteran Malaysian politician Mahathir Mohamad has announced to form a new party to champion the interests of the country’s ethnic majority Malays, six months after the coalition he headed lost p...
-- 2020-08-07 17:04:46
Hong Kong will offer free voluntary coronavirus testing for residents, leader Carrie Lam said on Friday, as the global financial hub races to contain a resurgence of the virus over the past month. Th...
REUTERS 2020-08-07 16:05:41
Indian customs authorities have seized a container with 740 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, the chemical that caused this week’s deadly blast in Lebanon’s capital. Nearly 150 people were kill...
-- 2020-08-07 15:30:48
The officially confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases surpassed 19 million, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. With the global case count...
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