Reuters 2020-07-23 14:46:30
Australia reported its highest daily number of coronavirus-related deaths in three months on Thursday as new infections continued to climb in its second most populous state. Victoria state said it ha...
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Airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan killed 45 people, including civilians and Taliban, local officials said on Wednesday. Ali Ahmad Faqir Yar, the governor of Adraskan District in the eastern Afghanist...
Reuters 2020-07-23 10:54:24
India reported a record jump of 45,720 in coronavirus infections on Wednesday taking its total number of cases to 1.24 million, the health ministry said on Thursday. India also reported 1,129 deaths...
-- 2020-07-22 23:18:52
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said India's recent border clash with China was the latest example of the China’s unacceptable behavior. “The recent clashes initiated by the PLA (Pe...
Reuters 2020-07-22 19:45:50
Global coronavirus infections surged past 15 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic gathering pace even as countries remain divided in their response to the crisis. In t...
-- 2020-07-22 19:29:53
The United States has told China to close its consulate in Houston, both countries said on Wednesday, deepening deterioration in bilateral relations, and a source said Beijing was considering shutting...
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An annual Hindu pilgrimage to a Himalayan cave shrine in Indian-administered Kashmir has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Officials cited rising cases as the reason, saying the health...
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A Malaysian high court spared 27 Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar from caning on Wednesday, their lawyer said, setting aside a lower court’s sentence following an outcry from human rights a...
Reuters 2020-07-22 12:22:21
When Bajirao Thengde voiced his fears about going to work after dozens of colleagues fell sick with coronavirus, his boss at a motorbike factory in western India said he should “learn to live wi...
Reuters 2020-07-22 11:48:21
Japan on Wednesday kicked off a national travel campaign aimed at reviving its battered tourism industry, but the effort has drawn heavy criticism amid a jump in new coronavirus cases. “Go To T...
-- 2020-07-22 10:15:13
US deaths from the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) rose by more than 1,000 on Tuesday, the biggest single-day increase since early June, according to a Reuters tally. After weeks of declining fataliti...
-- 2020-07-21 23:18:26
Russia has reportedly claimed to get the first domestic vaccine against novel coronavirus ready. All the volunteers who received the vaccine have developed immunity against the deadly virus, Russian...
-- 2020-07-21 21:57:05
The European Union does not plan to crack down on planet-warming methane emissions from gas imports despite pressure from oil companies, activists and academics, according to its draught strategy and...
Xinhua 2020-07-21 19:37:59
Rwanda has spent 60 million US dollars within four months on different activities aimed at containing the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country, Rwandan minister of health Daniel Ngamije said Monday. T...
Reuters 2020-07-21 17:16:46
Early data from trials of three potential coronavirus vaccines released on Monday, including a closely-watched candidate from Oxford University, increased confidence that a vaccine can train the immun...
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Pakistan’s telecommunications regulator issued a “final warning” to short-form video app TikTok on Monday over “immoral” content posted on the platform, while live stream...
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The Covid-19 pandemic affects men and women differently, which is why it is so crucial to respond to the crisis using gender data to inform evidence-based solutions, says a report on Tuesday. Since t...
Reuters 2020-07-21 12:59:48
Passengers on flights arriving in China must provide negative COVID-19 test results before they board, the aviation authority said on Tuesday. The nucleic acid tests must be completed five days befor...
-- 2020-07-20 20:35:49
A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and trains the immune system, reports BBC. Trials involving 1,077 people showed the injection led to them making antibodies an...
Reuters 2020-07-20 15:45:12
Britain has signed deals to secure 90 million doses of two possible Covid-19 vaccines from an alliance of Pfizer and BioNTech, and French group Valneva, the business ministry said on Monday. Bri...
-- 2020-07-20 15:43:24
Russia reported 5,940 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Monday, pushing its total infection tally to 777,486, the fourth largest in the world. In a daily readout, officials said 85 people had die...
-- 2020-07-20 13:32:58
Intense rain and floods in the Indian state of Assam have killed at least 84 people and displaced more than 2.75 million since May, authorities said on Monday, as they tried to collect the bodies of n...
Reuters 2020-07-20 12:42:31
Britain will on Monday suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong in a further escalation of its dispute with China over the introduction of a security law in the former colony, British newspapers...
Reuters 2020-07-20 10:55:16
Mosaics depicting Christian figures in Istanbul’s ancient Hagia Sophia will be covered with curtains during Muslim prayers, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Sunday, as work t...
-- 2020-07-20 10:38:22
At least one person was killed and eight others were injured in a shooting incident Sunday in Washington, DC, police said. The shooting occurred at 14th Street and Spring Road in the northeast part o...
-- 2020-07-20 10:21:14
China's cinemas are reopening after being closed for six months to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. The China Film Administration said screens in "low-risk" areas could open their doors again...
-- 2020-07-20 09:52:53
Saudi Arabia’s 84-year-old ruler, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, has been admitted to hospital in the capital Riyadh, suffering from inflammation of the gall bladder, state news agency SPA said on M...
Xinhua 2020-07-19 19:10:16
Beijing will lower its emergency response to COVID-19 from level II to III starting Monday, announced an official of the Beijing municipal government at a press conference Sunday. The city has effect...
-- 2020-07-19 18:29:24
Germany pledged 3.0 billion euros ($3.4 billion) at a meeting of G20 finance ministers to help the world's poorest countries. The funds will be made available as long-term loans for the International...
Reuters 2020-07-19 17:05:29
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday accused world powers of ignoring inequality in global institutions, but said the coronavirus pandemic has created a "generational opportunity" to buil...
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