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Thousands demand Netanyahu quit over coronavirus, corruption

Thousands demand Netanyahu quit over coronavirus, corruption

-- 2020-08-02 12:49:01

Thousands of people took to the streets of central Jerusalem and staged demonstrations demanding resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday. The demonstration in central Jerusalem,...

Thousands march in Berlin against coronavirus curbs

Thousands march in Berlin against coronavirus curbs

-- 2020-08-02 11:52:49

Thousands marched in Berlin on Saturday to protest against measures imposed in Germany to stem the coronavirus pandemic, saying they violated people’s rights and freedoms. The gathering, estima...

Latin America coronavirus death toll surges past 200,000

Latin America coronavirus death toll surges past 200,000

REUTERS 2020-08-02 11:30:58

The death toll in Latin America from the novel coronavirus passed 200,000 on Saturday night, a Reuters tally showed, underlining the region’s status as one of the global epicentres of the pandem...

South Africa's Covid-19 cases surpass half a million

South Africa's Covid-19 cases surpass half a million

Reuters 2020-08-02 09:24:10

South Africa’s confirmed cases of Covid-19 have crossed half a million, its health ministry said on Saturday, while cases in Africa as a whole approached a million. Africa’s most industri...

Mainland China reports 49 new Covid cases for Aug 1

Mainland China reports 49 new Covid cases for Aug 1

Reuters 2020-08-02 09:09:39

China reported 49 cases of the new coronavirus in the mainland for August 1, up from 45 cases a day earlier, the health commission said on Sunday. Of the new infections, 30 were in the far western re...

Facebook increases settlement to $650 million in facial recognition lawsuit

Facebook increases settlement to $650 million in facial recognition lawsuit

-- 2020-08-01 23:57:50

Facebook Inc (FB.O) raised its settlement offer by $100 million to $650 million related to a lawsuit that claimed it illegally collected and stored biometric data for millions of users without their c...

Florida teen accused of masterminding Twitter hack

Florida teen accused of masterminding Twitter hack

-- 2020-08-01 19:36:49

A 17-year-old Florida boy masterminded the hacking of celebrity accounts on Twitter Inc, including those of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, officials s...

Ten crushed to death in Indian crane collapse

Ten crushed to death in Indian crane collapse

-- 2020-08-01 19:05:59

Ten people died on Saturday when a crane collapsed, trapping them underneath, at a state-run shipyard in the southern Indian city of Visakhapatnam, a port city and industrial center in the Indian stat...

'Losing battle': Philippine medical staff urge new Covid-19 lockdowns

'Losing battle': Philippine medical staff urge new Covid-19 lockdowns

-- 2020-08-01 18:34:46

More than a million Philippine doctors and nurses, saying the country was losing the fight against Covid-19, urged President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday to reimpose strict lockdown in and around Manil...

UAE initiates first nuclear power plant in Arab world

UAE initiates first nuclear power plant in Arab world

-- 2020-08-01 17:53:27

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced the initiation of a nuclear power plant, the first of its kind in any Arab country. The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and UAE Representative...

Russia preparing mass vaccination against coronavirus

Russia preparing mass vaccination against coronavirus

-- 2020-08-01 17:28:41

Russia is preparing a mass vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus for October, after a vaccine completed clinical trials. The Gamaleya Institute, a state research facility in Moscow, had...

Philippines confirms nearly 5,000 new Covid-19 cases, largest single-day increase

Philippines confirms nearly 5,000 new Covid-19 cases, largest single-day increase

-- 2020-08-01 17:09:00

The Philippines on Saturday reported 4,963 additional coronavirus infections, the largest single-day jump on record, reports Reuters. In a bulletin, the health ministry said total infections have rea...

US imposes sanctions on Chinese company over abuse of Uighurs

US imposes sanctions on Chinese company over abuse of Uighurs

-- 2020-08-01 17:05:15

The United States intensified its economic pressure on China’s Xinjiang province on Friday, imposing sanctions on a powerful Chinese company and two officials for what it said were human rights...

Australian, PNG police arrest five over cocaine haul

Australian, PNG police arrest five over cocaine haul

-- 2020-08-01 12:46:21

A small plane which crashed shortly after takeoff on a flight from a remote airstrip in Papua New Guinea to Australia last week was overloaded with more than 500 kg (1,100 lb) of cocaine, police said...

Final days of hajj and Eid festival impacted by coronavirus

Final days of hajj and Eid festival impacted by coronavirus

AP 2020-08-01 12:44:27

Small groups of people performed one of the final rites of the Islamic hajj on Friday as Muslims worldwide marked the start of the Eid al-Adha holiday amid a global pandemic that has impacted nearly e...

Mexico’s coronavirus death toll becomes world’s third highest

Mexico’s coronavirus death toll becomes world’s third highest

-- 2020-08-01 12:18:06

Mexico has become the country with the third highest death toll with coronavirus, with only the US and Brazil recording greater numbers. It has now suffered at least 46,688 deaths during the pandemic...

US records over 25,000 Covid-19 deaths in July

US records over 25,000 Covid-19 deaths in July

-- 2020-08-01 11:13:04

US coronavirus deaths rose by over 25,000 in July and cases doubled in 19 states during the month, according to a Reuters tally, dealing a crushing blow to hopes of quickly reopening the economy. The...

10 die drinking sanitiser after Indian state shuts liquor shops

10 die drinking sanitiser after Indian state shuts liquor shops

-- 2020-08-01 10:30:51

At least 10 people have died after drinking alcohol-based sanitiser after liquor shops were closed in a village in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The village of Kurichedu has been placed in lock...

Trump says will ban TikTok amid pressure on Chinese owner to sell

Trump says will ban TikTok amid pressure on Chinese owner to sell

Reuters 2020-08-01 09:22:53

President Donald Trump said on Friday he would sign an executive order as soon as Saturday to ban TikTok in the United States, ratcheting up the pressure on the popular short-video app’s Chinese...

Sheikh Hasina at helm, India-Bangladesh economic cooperation sets a new milestone

Sheikh Hasina at helm, India-Bangladesh economic cooperation sets a new milestone

Hindustan Times 2020-07-31 21:22:17

The start of commercial goods shipments by rail container between India and Bangladesh over the last week is a game changer because it brings speed, scale and sustainability to the bilateral trade and...

Out of hospital, Saudi King tweets Eid greetings

Out of hospital, Saudi King tweets Eid greetings

Reuters 2020-07-31 16:20:52

Saudi Arabia’s 84-year-old ruler, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, tweeted Eid al-Adha greetings early on Friday, shortly after leaving hospital. The Saudi King, custodian of Islam’s holiest si...

Iran's Khamenei rejects talks with US

Iran's Khamenei rejects talks with US

Reuters 2020-07-31 15:14:34

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ruled out negotiations with the United States over Tehran’s ballistic missile and nuclear programmes on Friday and urged Iranians to resist U...

Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news in world first

Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news in world first

Reuters 2020-07-31 13:50:11

Australia will force US tech giants Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google to pay Australian media outlets for news content in a landmark move to protect independent journalism that will b...

Trump raises possibility of delaying the election

Trump raises possibility of delaying the election

-- 2020-07-30 20:57:37

US President Donald Trump on Thursday raised the possibility of delaying the nation's Nov 3 presidential election despite its date being enshrined in the US Constitution, drawing immediate objections...

ADB, HSBC to finance $1.2b in trade to boost supplies

ADB, HSBC to finance $1.2b in trade to boost supplies

-- 2020-07-30 20:45:44

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the HSBC have launched a programme to support up to $1.2 billion a year in trade by companies in Asia and the Pacific producing goods crucial to the ongoing fight...

China says US wants a new Cold War

China says US wants a new Cold War

-- 2020-07-30 17:20:24

China’s ambassador to London said on Thursday that the United States was trying to trigger a new Cold War with the Communist state because it was searching for a scapegoat ahead of the US presid...

'Vaccine nationalism': Is it every country for itself?

'Vaccine nationalism': Is it every country for itself?

REUTERS 2020-07-30 15:43:51

It’s dog eat dog in the world of Covid-19 vaccines. That’s the fear of global health agencies planning a scheme to bulk-buy and equitably distribute vaccines around the world. They are wa...

Myanmar urged to release imprisoned Rakhine student leaders

Myanmar urged to release imprisoned Rakhine student leaders

-- 2020-07-30 15:31:55

Fortify Rights on Friday said Myanmar authorities should immediately release Myat Hein Tun and Kyaw Lin, two student leaders of the Rakhine Students’ Union imprisoned for protesting internet res...

Indonesia reports 1,904 new coronavirus cases, 83 deaths

Indonesia reports 1,904 new coronavirus cases, 83 deaths

-- 2020-07-30 15:18:36

Indonesia reported on Thursday 1,904 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s total tally to 106,336 cases, Health Ministry data showed. The number of deaths in the Southeast Asian na...

Covid-19 strikes back in virus-free Vietnam

Covid-19 strikes back in virus-free Vietnam

-- 2020-07-30 14:14:00

Vietnam has had one of the world’s best records in containing the coronavirus despite bordering China, its biggest trading partner, where the virus was first reported. But after more than three...