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Reuters 2020-07-26 17:32:16
Malaysian authorities launched a search on Sunday for 24 Rohingya refugees who went missing while trying to swim to shore from a boat off the resort island of Langkawi. Muslim-majority Malaysia has l...
Reuters 2020-07-26 17:24:52
More than 16.06 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 643,811 have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections have been reported in more than 210...
-- 2020-07-26 16:16:03
Kenya’s national police service has arrested two police officers and opened an investigation after “a shooting incident” in the eastern county of Garissa, the police service said on...
REUTERS 2020-07-26 14:59:37
British tourists flying home on Sunday from holidays in Spain reacted angrily to the UK government’s abrupt decision to impose a two-week coronavirus quarantine on everyone travelling from there...
-- 2020-07-26 13:39:47
Malaysian former prime minister Najib Razak, fighting dozens of charges over a multi-billion-dollar graft scandal at state fund 1MDB, faces his first verdict on Tuesday in a landmark case that tests t...
-- 2020-07-26 13:25:38
The United States recorded more than 1,000 deaths from coronavirus (Covid-19) for the fourth straight day on Friday but a top White House advisor on the pandemic said she saw signs that the worst coul...
REUTERS 2020-07-26 13:25:15
Washington has dispatched a special envoy for Afghanistan to press for peace talks between the government and Taliban fighters, with the diplomat scheduled to visit Kabul on a trip with stops in five...
Reuters 2020-07-26 11:02:12
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared an emergency and a lockdown in a border town after a person suspected of being infected with the novel coronavirus returned from South Korea after illegally cr...
-- 2020-07-26 10:26:29
Almost 40 countries have reported record single-day increases in coronavirus infections over the past week, around double the number that did so the previous week, according to a Reuters tally showing...
-- 2020-07-25 21:44:15
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said coal power should have no place in any country’s post-coronavirus stimulus plan and economic recovery should align with global climate goals &ldqu...
-- 2020-07-25 21:00:18
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong named a largely-unchanged cabinet on Saturday following an election win this month, and flagged a possible delay, due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, of his...
-- 2020-07-25 17:42:20
The climate emergency generated by global warming, is exacerbating existing risks to international peace and security and also creating new ones, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Frid...
-- 2020-07-25 17:39:51
Thousands of Filipinos were crammed into a baseball stadium in Manila on Saturday, breaking social distancing rules despite coronavirus risks, after people wanting to return to their home provinces fl...
-- 2020-07-25 17:18:19
World Health Organization’s chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan on Friday said that 50 to 60 per cent of the population will need to be immune to the novel coronavirus to protect the uninfecte...
-- 2020-07-25 17:10:34
India has started its first human trials of a novel coronavirus vaccine candidate as the world’s second-most populous country recorded nearly 49,000 new cases. The All India Institute of Medica...
AP 2020-07-25 17:09:09
The US federal immigration officials on Friday announced that new foreign students will be barred from entering the United States if they plan to take their classes entirely online this fall. US Immi...
Reuters 2020-07-25 11:15:58
The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Friday, with the total rising by 284,196 in 24 hours. Deaths rose by 9,753, the biggest one-day increase since...
REUTERS 2020-07-25 10:08:07
Indian and Chinese diplomats agreed on Friday to a fast pull back of troops eyeballing each other across a disputed border in the western Himalayas where 20 Indian soldiers died in a clash last month,...
Reuters 2020-07-24 21:17:16
The European Union (EU) is not interested in buying potential COVID-19 vaccines through an initiative co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) as it deems it slow and high-cost, two EU sources to...
-- 2020-07-24 20:23:46
Singapore will complete testing for COVID-19 cases among migrant workers living in dormitories by August 7, about four months after authorities started quarantining tens of thousands of workers in the...
-- 2020-07-24 19:34:59
US investment bank Goldman Sachs on Friday reached a $3.9 billion settlement with Malaysia over the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal that will see all criminal charges against the bank dropped. The d...
-- 2020-07-24 17:25:44
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has gone into quarantine after the head of his political office tested positive for coronavirus late on Thursday. Borissov, 61, whose first test for coronaviru...
-- 2020-07-24 17:16:20
The head of the World Health Organization said on Thursday that reported comments by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo questioning his independence were untrue and would not distract the organisation...
-- 2020-07-24 16:36:31
Thousands of Turks gathered near Hagia Sophia early on Friday for the first prayers there since Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan declared the monument, revered by Christians and Muslims for almost 1,5...
-- 2020-07-24 16:20:29
Russia has registered 5,811 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total to 800,849, the country's COVID-19 response center said in a statement Friday. Meanwhile, 154 new deaths were rep...
REUTERS 2020-07-24 15:48:13
The Mekong River has become a new front in US-China rivalry, environmentalists and officials say, with Beijing overtaking Washington in both spending and influence over downstream countries at the mer...
REUTERS 2020-07-24 11:59:10
China ordered the United States to close its consulate in the city of Chengdu on Friday, in a tit-for-tat response to being told to shut its consulate in Houston earlier this week, as relations betwee...
Reuters 2020-07-24 11:04:09
The United States on Thursday recorded more than 1,100 deaths from Covid-19, marking the third straight day the nation passed that grim milestone as the pandemic escalates in southern and western US s...
-- 2020-07-24 10:52:35
The number of confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in the United States surpassed the 4-million mark on Thursday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins...
-- 2020-07-23 16:37:15
The mayor of the US city of Portland, Ted Wheeler, was stung by tear gas early on Thursday morning after he joined demonstrators protesting against racial injustice and police brutality, reports Reute...
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