-- 2020-07-11 18:49:54
Singapore's ruling People's Action Party (PAP) has retained power in Friday's general election but with a reduced majority, final results show. The PAP, in power since 1965, won 83 of 93 parliamentar...
-- 2020-07-11 17:34:36
COVID-19 pandemic is deepening existing inequalities and vulnerabilities, particularly for women and girls, said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in a message marking the World...
Reuters 2020-07-11 17:03:15
New cases of COVID-19 rose by nearly 69,000 across the United States on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, setting a record for the third consecutive day as Walt Disney Co. stuck to its plans to re...
-- 2020-07-11 17:02:38
The United Nations on World Population Day on Saturday showed in its world population trend that the number of global population stands at about 7.7 billion. “It took hundreds of thous...
-- 2020-07-11 15:51:53
The Philippines’ health ministry on Saturday reported 12 new coronavirus deaths and 1,387 additional infections. In a bulletin, the ministry said total deaths have increased to 1,372 while conf...
-- 2020-07-11 14:35:04
Russia on Saturday reported 6,611 new coronavirus cases, taking its nationwide tally of infections to 720,547. The country’s coronavirus crisis response centre said 188 people had died from the...
-- 2020-07-11 11:43:26
Heavy rains triggered flash floods and landslides that killed at least 23 people and displaced thousands in western Nepal, officials said on Saturday. Nine people were killed and more than 30 were mi...
-- 2020-07-11 10:20:44
New cases of Covid-19 rose by nearly 69,000 across the United States on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, setting a record for the third consecutive day as Walt Disney Co stuck to its plans to reo...
-- 2020-07-10 18:26:49
A giant, yellow ‘Black Lives Matter’ mural was painted Thursday on New York City's Fifth Avenue right in front of Trump Tower, a skyscraper that serves as the headquarters for the Trump Or...
-- 2020-07-10 16:54:55
India reported a record 26,506 new coronavirus cases on Friday as authorities re-imposed lockdowns in its most populous state and in an industrial hub, home to automakers, drug factories and brewers,...
-- 2020-07-10 16:46:58
Brazil's government announced on Thursday it planned to ban setting fires in the Amazon for 120 days, in a meeting with global investors to address their rising concerns over destruction of the rainfo...
-- 2020-07-10 12:55:46
Park Won-soon, mayor of South Korea's capital Seoul, was found dead around midnight in Bugaksan mountain in northern Seoul, hours after his daughter filed a missing report to police on Thursday evenin...
-- 2020-07-10 12:44:28
Vikas Dubey, the gangster who organised the massacre of eight policemen, has been killed in a purported encounter with law enforcers in Kanpur. The encounter between Dubey and the Uttar Pradesh Speci...
REUTERS 2020-07-10 11:28:49
News broadcaster Al Jazeera has rejected allegations by Malaysian authorities that a documentary it aired last week about the arrest of undocumented migrants during the coronavirus pandemic was inaccu...
FE Online Report 2020-07-09 18:20:53
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will help Bangladesh and nine other Asian countries to ensure quality education for the out-of-school and at-risk children in the primary level. In its preliminary ef...
Xinhua 2020-07-09 17:38:32
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, held a phone conversation on Wednesday, vowing that the two countries will firmly support each other in safeguarding sovereign...
-- 2020-07-09 17:03:17
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday highlighted the need for decent jobs to fuel the COVID-19 recovery. In a video message, the UN chief told heads of state and government...
Reuters 2020-07-09 16:07:47
Tokyo confirmed 224 new cases of coronavirus infection on Thursday, marking a record high for the Japanese capital in a single day as authorities focused testing on the city’s night-life distric...
-- 2020-07-09 15:43:58
African countries urgently need to scale up coronavirus testing and the use of face masks, a regional disease control body said on Thursday, as the epidemic gains traction across the continent with co...
Reuters 2020-07-09 15:27:37
The former US police officer charged in the death of George Floyd told him to stop shouting and save his breath as he knelt on his neck and Floyd gasped for air, according to a newly released transcri...
Reuters 2020-07-09 14:00:17
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has gone all in on hydroxychloroquine to help his coronavirus-ravaged country beat Covid-19. He has pushed his government to make the malaria drug widely available a...
-- 2020-07-09 10:15:33
Global coronavirus (Covid-19) cases exceeded 12 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, as evidence mounts of the airborne spread of the disease that has killed more than half a million...
-- 2020-07-08 23:12:35
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the leaders of the Democratic Party of wanting to keep schools shut for political reasons, despite a surge in coronavirus cases across the country The Repu...
-- 2020-07-08 17:04:41
China would "be happy to" participate in trilateral arms control negotiations with the United States and Russia, but only if the United States were willing to reduce its nuclear arsenal to China's lev...
-- 2020-07-08 16:19:38
Global leaders called for a comprehensive approach to counter the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, which International Labour Organisation chief Guy Ryder said on Wednesday had plunged the world of...
-- 2020-07-08 13:12:38
Hong Kong authorities on Wednesday banned school students from singing of “Glory to Hong Kong”, the unofficial anthem of the pro-democracy protest movement, just hours after Beijing set up...
-- 2020-07-08 13:01:44
The Pakistani government has fired 28 pilots serving in various airlines of the country after their licenses were proven fake during an inquiry initiated by the authorities. In a meeting of the feder...
-- 2020-07-08 12:53:06
Indian police have arrested 12 LG Polymers officials, including its South Korean chief executive, an officer said on Wednesday, two months after a gas leak at the company’s south India chemical...
-- 2020-07-08 11:51:22
The US coronavirus outbreak crossed a grim milestone of over 3.0 million confirmed cases on Tuesday as more states reported record numbers of new infections, and Florida faced an impending shortage of...
-- 2020-07-08 10:59:51
A landslide buried nine people on Wednesday in China’s Hubei province, the People’s Daily newspaper reported, after some of the heaviest rain in decades brought floods that have killed mor...
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