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COVID-19 epidemics in India, South Asia growing but not exploding: WHO

COVID-19 epidemics in India, South Asia growing but not exploding: WHO

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...

Japan aims to have coronavirus vaccines in use by June 2021

Japan aims to have coronavirus vaccines in use by June 2021

-- 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...

California mayor resigns over email about police killings

California mayor resigns over email about police killings

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...

China's Hubei clears all confirmed COVID-19 cases

China's Hubei clears all confirmed COVID-19 cases

-- 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...

India set to reopen temples, malls

India set to reopen temples, malls

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...

Russia's COVID-19 cases near 450,000

Russia's COVID-19 cases near 450,000

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...

Japan’s pandemic deaths low, but future success uncertain

Japan’s pandemic deaths low, but future success uncertain

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...

After Pakistan's lockdown gamble, COVID-19 cases surge

After Pakistan's lockdown gamble, COVID-19 cases surge

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...

India's urban COVID-19 outbreak is morphing into a rural health crisis

India's urban COVID-19 outbreak is morphing into a rural health crisis

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...

Turkey says to gradually restart flights with 40 countries in June

Turkey says to gradually restart flights with 40 countries in June

-- 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...

COVID-19:  Global death toll reaches 385, 873

COVID-19:  Global death toll reaches 385, 873

-- 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...

Hong Kong legislature passes national anthem bill

Hong Kong legislature passes national anthem bill

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...

ADB, ESCAP to help Asia Pacific region to address COVID-19

ADB, ESCAP to help Asia Pacific region to address COVID-19

-- 2020-06-04 16:40:56

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...

Brazil sets record for daily coronavirus deaths

Brazil sets record for daily coronavirus deaths

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...

All four cops charged in George Floyd death

All four cops charged in George Floyd death

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...

EU classifies coronavirus as mid-level threat to workers

EU classifies coronavirus as mid-level threat to workers

-- 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...

‘Grateful to countries that opened borders, hearts to refugees, migrants’

‘Grateful to countries that opened borders, hearts to refugees, migrants’

-- 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...

Mumbai avoids brunt of cyclone

Mumbai avoids brunt of cyclone

-- 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...

Trump has no power to change format of G7 summit: EU

Trump has no power to change format of G7 summit: EU

-- 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...

Modi, Trump discuss India-China border issues

Modi, Trump discuss India-China border issues

-- 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...

Cyclone ‘Nisarga’ makes landfall in India; 60,000 evacuated

Cyclone ‘Nisarga’ makes landfall in India; 60,000 evacuated

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...

Mumbai streets deserted as the city braces for first-ever cyclone

Mumbai streets deserted as the city braces for first-ever cyclone

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...

Protesters clash with police in New York City

Protesters clash with police in New York City

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...

India's COVID-19 cases cross 200,000

India's COVID-19 cases cross 200,000

-- 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,...

Zuckerberg faces employee backlash over Trump protest comments

Zuckerberg faces employee backlash over Trump protest comments

-- 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...

Hong Kong pro-democracy group files complaint to UN over alleged abuse

Hong Kong pro-democracy group files complaint to UN over alleged abuse

-- 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...

South Assam landslides leave 20 dead

South Assam landslides leave 20 dead

-- 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...

Five police shot during protests after Trump declares to bring in US military

Five police shot during protests after Trump declares to bring in US military

-- 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...

Keep your mouth shut: Houston police chief to Trump

Keep your mouth shut: Houston police chief to Trump

-- 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”...

Indonesia cancels this year's hajj pilgrimage

Indonesia cancels this year's hajj pilgrimage

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...