REUTERS 2020-06-06 12:11:39
The number of COVID-19 cases in India has been doubling every three weeks but the epidemic is not growing exponentially in the country and South Asia region, the World Health Organization (WHO) said o...
-- 2020-06-05 19:26:12
Japan aims to put coronavirus vaccines into use by June 2021, the health minister said on Friday, as the country strives to be fully ready to host the Tokyo Olympics, originally planned for this summe...
AP 2020-06-05 18:25:38
The mayor of a Southern California city resigned following an email in which he stated he didn't "believe there's ever been a good person of colour killed by a police officer" locally. Temecula Mayor...
-- 2020-06-05 17:45:36
Central China's Hubei Province cleared all its confirmed COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the provincial health commission said Friday. As of Thursday, the last three COVID-19 patients in the province had...
Reuters 2020-06-05 17:28:47
India will throw open shopping malls, restaurants and places of worship that typically attract large crowds next week, officials said, even though coronavirus infections are rising at the fastest dail...
Xinhua 2020-06-05 17:02:35
Russia has confirmed 8,726 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, raising its total to 449,834, its coronavirus response centre said in a statement Friday. The death toll grew by 144 to 5,528, whil...
AP 2020-06-05 16:10:48
Japan has kept its deaths from the new coronavirus low despite a series of missteps that beg the question of whether it can prevent future waves of infections. Authorities were criticised for bunglin...
Reuters 2020-06-05 14:11:24
Four weeks ago, with its most important festival coming up and millions of people facing starvation as economic activity dwindled, Pakistan lifted a two-month-long coronavirus lockdown. Prime...
REUTERS 2020-06-05 10:11:01
Rural parts of India have begun to see a surge in novel coronavirus infections, as millions of migrant workers returning from big cities and industrial hubs bring the virus home with them, according t...
-- 2020-06-04 17:37:23
Turkey is planning to gradually resume flights with 40 countries in June and it has reached preliminary agreements for reciprocal flights to begin with 15 countries, Transport Minister Adil Karaismail...
-- 2020-06-04 17:11:37
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases across the world has gone up to 6,429,453 while the death toll reached 385,873 on Thursday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering...
Xinhua 2020-06-04 16:47:54
The Legislative Council (LegCo) of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) passed the National Anthem Bill at the third reading debate on Thursday. The bill was approved with the supp...
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masatsugu Asakawa and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP) Executive Secretary Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana on Wednesday...
Reuters 2020-06-04 13:04:19
Brazil registered a record number of daily deaths from COVID-19 for the second consecutive day, according to Health Ministry data released on Wednesday. The nation recorded 1,349 new coronavirus deat...
Reuters 2020-06-04 09:45:14
Prosecutors on Wednesday (US local time) levelled new criminal charges against four Minneapolis police officers implicated in the death of an unarmed black man who was pinned by his neck to the street...
-- 2020-06-03 23:35:17
The European Commission has classified the coronavirus as a mid-level threat to workers, drawing criticism from socialist lawmakers because the move will allow less stringent workplace safety measures...
-- 2020-06-03 22:41:52
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has lauded the developing countries that have opened their borders and hearts to refugees and migrants, despite their own social, economic, and now health, challe...
-- 2020-06-03 18:24:06
Mumbai escaped the brunt of a cyclone on Wednesday after winds changed direction and the storm made landfall further south on India's western coast than expected, giving some respite to a metropolis a...
-- 2020-06-03 18:11:34
The European Union has said US President Donald Trump has no power to change the rules for the Group of Seven (G7) the chair of the group, after Trump’s announcement to invite several other coun...
-- 2020-06-03 17:50:25
China on Wednesday said there was no need for a ‘third party’ to intervene in the ongoing China-India border friction after it emerged that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed th...
Hindustan Times 2020-06-03 16:48:48
The Maharashtra government on Wednesday said that it has evacuated around 60,000 people from the state’s coastal region of Konkan, and brought 7,003 fishing boats back to the shore with the help...
Reuters 2020-06-03 15:39:42
Bracing for the first-ever cyclone to hit Mumbai in living memory, people in India’s most populous metropolis stayed off the streets and scrambled to protect their homes before the torrential ra...
Reuters 2020-06-03 11:31:33
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of US cities on Tuesday for an eighth consecutive night of protests over the death of a black man in police custody, clashing with police and looting st...
-- 2020-06-03 11:25:46
India’s coronavirus infections crossed 200,000, the health ministry said on Wednesday, and a peak could still be weeks away in the world’s second most populous country. Cases jumped by 8,...
-- 2020-06-02 20:15:06
Facebook employees walked away from their work-from-home desks on Monday and took to Twitter to accuse Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg of inadequately policing US President Donald Trump’s posts...
-- 2020-06-02 17:45:14
A Hong Kong pro-democracy group said on Tuesday it had filed a complaint with the United Nations over what it described as abuse of anti-government protesters held in custody in the Chinese-ruled city...
-- 2020-06-02 17:06:41
At least 20 people have died in a series of landslides that took place in Assam of India on Tuesday. The dead are largely from three different districts of the Barak valley region in southern Assam. S...
-- 2020-06-02 16:36:17
At least five US police were hit by gunfire during violent protests over the death of a black man in police custody, police and media said, hours after President Donald Trump vowed to use the military...
-- 2020-06-02 16:28:30
With the protests and riots in the US reaching fever pitch, US President Donald Trump’s leaked call to governors across America to “dominate” and “arrest and try people”...
Reuters 2020-06-02 14:00:59
Indonesia has cancelled the hajj pilgrimage this year for people in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation due to concerns over the coronavirus, the religious affairs minister said on Tuesda...
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