BBC 2020-06-14 17:09:04
There's been criticism of a study from the US suggesting that the coronavirus could have been present in the Chinese city of Wuhan as early as August last year. The study by Harvard University, which...
Xinhua 2020-06-14 16:29:40
The Brazilian government said on Friday that the Amazon rainforest witnessed deforestation of a record 829 square kilometres in May, the highest monthly level since 2015 when measurements first began...
REUTERS 2020-06-14 10:19:35
A China Southern Airlines flight from Dhaka to Guangzhou will be suspended for four weeks from June 22 due to concerns about Covid-19 infections, China’s aviation regulator said on Sunday. Seve...
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The lower house of Nepal's parliament on Saturday approved a new map of the country, including areas disputed with India. The passage of the bill came on a day hundreds of protesters hit the streets...
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Facebook fired an employee who had criticised its Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s decision not to take action against inflammatory posts by US President Donald Trump this month, citing his twe...
AP 2020-06-13 18:20:02
They call one section of the stadium The Zoo, and it's easy to see why: thousands of university students in team colours standing on their seats, steadying trays of beer, swaying to music and erupting...
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Hundreds packed into a park in central Taipei on Saturday for a Black Lives Matter protest, with a group of indigenous Taiwanese given prominent billing to draw attention to discrimination against the...
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Police in Nepal on Saturday arrested 10 people, including seven foreigners, as demonstrations against the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis continued with hundreds of protesters ga...
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The Americas are bearing the brunt of the global coronavirus pandemic at present, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, with North and South America currently having four of the 10 worst...
REUTERS 2020-06-13 13:55:50
India reported its biggest single-day jump in coronavirus cases on Saturday, adding 11,458 confirmed infections and taking its total count to more than 300,000, according to data from the federal heal...
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A district of Beijing was on a “wartime” footing and the capital banned tourism on Saturday after a cluster of novel coronavirus infections centred around a major wholesale market sparked...
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Olena Zelenska, wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, announced on Friday via her official social media account that she has tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19). "I feel good, but I...
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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday offered to help neighbouring India disburse cash to the public during the coronavirus lockdown, citing a report Indians were struggling to make ends mee...
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The International Criminal Court, which sits in The Hague of Netherlands, has said US President Donald Trump's authorisation of economic and travel sanctions against ICC employees amounted to threats...
Reuters 2020-06-12 17:52:20
A second wave of the coronavirus could derail efforts by governments to reopen economies and ease lockdown restrictions. Here is a rundown of countries and regions with the highest infection rates and...
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Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom has taken part in her first public video conference call to mark Carers Week, adding another first for the British monarch during her long reign. Elizabeth and h...
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Hiding from Myanmar's police, journalist Aung Marm Oo refuses to conceal his anger with the civilian government led by Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as his country prepares for an election later thi...
Xinhua 2020-06-12 16:10:37
Russia recorded 8,987 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total to 511,423, the country's coronavirus response centre said in a statement Friday. The death toll grew by 183 to 6,715, whil...
Reuters 2020-06-12 14:07:59
India has turned down a travel request for members of a US government panel seeking to review its religious freedom, saying such foreign agencies had no standing to assess the constitutional rights of...
Reuters 2020-06-12 13:12:01
Australia has eliminated the novel coronavirus in many parts of the country, its chief medical officer said on Friday, clearing the way for sports fans to soon return to stadiums and for foreign stude...
REUTERS 2020-06-12 12:26:29
India on Friday reported a total of 297,535 coronavirus infections, surpassing the United Kingdom to become the fourth worst affected country in the world. The number of infections increased by 10,95...
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George Floyd’s younger brother took his grief to the US Congress on Wednesday with an impassioned plea that lawmakers not let his brother’s death be in vain, lamenting that he “didn&...
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Some European Union member states have announced new steps to reopen their borders with the improvement of the coronavirsu (Covid-19) situation inside their countries. German Interior Minister Horst...
REUTERS 2020-06-11 12:11:08
Total US coronavirus cases surpassed 2 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, as health officials urge anyone who took part in massive protests for racial justice to get tested. National...
Global Times 2020-06-10 17:30:07
Australia's years of effort to constrain investment from China with its "semi-decoupling" tactics have paid off, after a report by KPMG and the University of Sydney showed that China's outbound direct...
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France will end special government powers brought in to deal with the coronavirus pandemic on July 10 though it will retain the ability to curb gatherings and freedom of movement for four months, the...
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India's financial capital, Mumbai, has recorded 51,000 cases of Covid, taking it past the peak in Wuhan, where the virus first emerged. The news comes amid a surge of infections in India, which has 2...
Reuters 2020-06-10 12:36:13
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan appointed new governors in 41 provinces, a presidential ruling in the Official Gazette showed on Wednesday. As part of the move, 23 governors were shuffled between pr...
Reuters 2020-06-10 11:39:51
Population-wide facemask use could push Covid-19 transmission down to controllable levels for national epidemics and could prevent further waves of the pandemic disease when combined with lockdowns, a...
Reuters 2020-06-09 21:20:32
As Sharif Uddin contemplates leaving the cramped Singapore dormitory where he has spent weeks under coronavirus quarantine, fears about his future creep in. The 42-year-old Bangladeshi construction s...
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