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New Zealand sees no Covid-19 case for 5th straight day

New Zealand sees no Covid-19 case for 5th straight day

-- 2020-08-10 17:21:46

New Zealand reported no new Covid-19 case on Monday for the fifth consecutive day after managing isolation and quarantine facilities. The health ministry of the country said the number of currently a...

Turkey becomes third to develop COVID-19 vaccines: Erdogan

Turkey becomes third to develop COVID-19 vaccines: Erdogan

Xinhua 2020-08-10 16:52:09

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey has become the third country to develop vaccines locally against COVID-19 after the United States and China according to the World Hea...

India reports 1,007 coronavirus deaths in 24hr

India reports 1,007 coronavirus deaths in 24hr

AP 2020-08-10 16:37:28

India registered 1,007 coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s total tally to 44,386 on Monday. Besides, the fresh coronavirus infections surged by another 62,064 cases, t...

Iran says Beirut blast should not be politicised

Iran says Beirut blast should not be politicised

Reuters 2020-08-10 15:53:52

Iran said on Monday that countries should refrain from politicising the massive blast in Beirut last week, and that the United States should lift sanctions against Lebanon. “The blast should no...

India tea plantation landslide death toll rises to 43

India tea plantation landslide death toll rises to 43

REUTERS 2020-08-10 13:16:14

The death toll from landslide at a tea plantation in the southern Indian state of Kerala rose to 43 on Sunday with nearly two dozen people feared trapped, a senior official said. The landslide, cause...

Int'l community pledges aid to blasts-stricken Lebanon

Int'l community pledges aid to blasts-stricken Lebanon

-- 2020-08-10 10:33:44

The international community on Sunday pledged timely and sufficient aid, well-coordinated under the leadership of the United Nations (UN), to assist the Lebanese people hit by the massive explosions a...

Hong Kong police arrest media tycoon Jimmy Lai under national security law

Hong Kong police arrest media tycoon Jimmy Lai under national security law

-- 2020-08-10 10:33:40

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai became the highest-profile arrest under a new national security law on Monday, detained over suspected collusion with foreign forces as scores of police searched the o...

Beirut protesters hurl rocks as anger over blast reignites

Beirut protesters hurl rocks as anger over blast reignites

REUTERS 2020-08-10 10:07:39

Lebanese police fired tear gas to try to disperse rock-throwing protesters blocking a road near parliament in Beirut on Sunday in a second day of anti-government demonstrations triggered by last week&...

Fire at Covid facility in India kills at least 10

Fire at Covid facility in India kills at least 10

BBC 2020-08-09 19:38:40

At least 10 patients have died after a fire at a temporary Covid hospital in Vijayawada, south-east India. The fire broke out at Swarna Palace, a hotel being used to house patients, on Sunday morning...

Lebanese call for an uprising to topple leaders

Lebanese call for an uprising to topple leaders

Reuters 2020-08-09 18:40:52

Some Lebanese called on Sunday for a sustained uprising to topple their leaders amid public fury over this week's devastating explosion in Beirut, and the country's top Christian Maronite cleric said...

Mahinda Rajapaksa takes oath as Sri Lanka's new PM

Mahinda Rajapaksa takes oath as Sri Lanka's new PM

-- 2020-08-09 17:17:48

Leader of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna party Mahinda Rajapaksa took his oath as the nation's new prime minister on Sunday after his party secured a landslide victory in the recently-concluded parliamen...

Nagasaki urges nuke ban on 75th anniversary of US A-bombing

Nagasaki urges nuke ban on 75th anniversary of US A-bombing

AP 2020-08-09 16:58:51

The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday marked its 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, with a call to the world leaders including their own to do more for a nuclear weapons ban. At 11:02am,...

Philippine reports 61 more coronavirus deaths, biggest spike in three weeks

Philippine reports 61 more coronavirus deaths, biggest spike in three weeks

-- 2020-08-09 15:42:46

The Philippines on Sunday recorded 61 more coronavirus deaths, the highest daily increase in fatalities reported since July 18, taking the country’s death tally to 2,270. A health ministry bull...

Australia's Victoria reports deadliest day of Covid-19 pandemic

Australia's Victoria reports deadliest day of Covid-19 pandemic

Reuters 2020-08-09 15:31:30

Australia’s second-most populous state, Victoria, reported its deadliest day of the Covid-19 outbreak on Sunday, with 17 people dying, as police thwarted a planned anti-mask rally in the capital...

Afghanistan to release 400 'hard-core' Taliban to start peace talks

Afghanistan to release 400 'hard-core' Taliban to start peace talks

REUTERS 2020-08-09 15:23:18

Afghanistan agreed on Sunday to release 400 “hard-core” Taliban prisoners, paving the way for the beginning of peace talks aimed at ending more than 19 years of war. Under election-year p...

Lebanon information minister resigns

Lebanon information minister resigns

Reuters 2020-08-09 15:20:00

Lebanon’s Information Minister Manal Abdel Samad announced on Sunday her resignation, citing the failure of the government to carry out reforms and the catastrophic explosion that rocked Beirut...

Seven die in fire at Covid-19 hotel facility in India

Seven die in fire at Covid-19 hotel facility in India

-- 2020-08-09 11:50:20

At least seven people died after a massive fire broke out at a hotel that was being used as a Covid-19 facility in India’s southern Andhra Pradesh state early on Sunday, police said. “Sev...

China describes US sanctions as clowning actions

China describes US sanctions as clowning actions

-- 2020-08-08 19:06:18

The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and other Chinese and Hong Kong officials, according to the US Treasury Department’s website. Meanwhile, Be...

Lebanon sees possible 'external interference' in port blast

Lebanon sees possible 'external interference' in port blast

-- 2020-08-08 18:13:37

Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun said on Friday its investigation into the biggest blast in Beirut’s history would examine whether it was caused by a bomb or other external interference, as...

Flight data, cockpit voice recorders recovered from India plane crash site

Flight data, cockpit voice recorders recovered from India plane crash site

-- 2020-08-08 17:54:34

The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder have been recovered from the site of an Indian passenger aircraft crash in a southern state, a top official at the Directorate General of Civil Avia...

India records 933 deaths in 24 hours

India records 933 deaths in 24 hours

AP 2020-08-08 16:47:04

India has witnessed 933 COVID-19 fatalities in the past 24 hours till Friday and fresh infections surged by another 61,537 cases to reach nearly 2.1 million. The Health Ministry says the total deaths...

City in China’s Inner Mongolia issues warning after bubonic plague patient dies

City in China’s Inner Mongolia issues warning after bubonic plague patient dies

-- 2020-08-08 13:23:21

Authorities in a city in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia issued a warning after a patient who had bubonic plague died of multiple organ failure, state media reported on Saturday. Cases of plague...

Death toll from Air India Express plane accident rises to 18

Death toll from Air India Express plane accident rises to 18

REUTERS 2020-08-08 13:20:22

The death toll from an Air India Express passenger aircraft accident has risen to 18, while 16 people have been severely injured, a senior government official said on Saturday. The Air India Express...

At least 17 dead as Air India flight crash-lands in Kerala

At least 17 dead as Air India flight crash-lands in Kerala

REUTERS 2020-08-08 10:03:02

At least 17 people were killed and more than 100 injured when an Air India Express passenger plane repatriating Indians stranded by the CoviD-19 pandemic overshot the runway in heavy rain near the sou...

Landslide kills 15 in Kerala, more than 50 feared trapped

Landslide kills 15 in Kerala, more than 50 feared trapped

-- 2020-08-07 20:53:32

A landslide caused by torrential rains killed at least 15 tea garden workers in Kerala, a state on India's tropical Malabar Coast, on Friday. Rescue workers are searching for more than 50 people thou...

Mahathir plans to form new party

Mahathir plans to form new party

-- 2020-08-07 20:46:39

Veteran Malaysian politician Mahathir Mohamad has announced to form a new party to champion the interests of the country’s ethnic majority Malays, six months after the coalition he headed lost p...

Hong Kong to offer free coronavirus testing

Hong Kong to offer free coronavirus testing

-- 2020-08-07 17:04:46

Hong Kong will offer free voluntary coronavirus testing for residents, leader Carrie Lam said on Friday, as the global financial hub races to contain a resurgence of the virus over the past month. Th...

India seizes 740 tonnes of chemical that caused Lebanon blast

India seizes 740 tonnes of chemical that caused Lebanon blast

REUTERS 2020-08-07 16:05:41

Indian customs authorities have seized a container with 740 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, the chemical that caused this week’s deadly blast in Lebanon’s capital. Nearly 150 people were kill...

Sri Lanka president, brother tighten grip after big poll win

Sri Lanka president, brother tighten grip after big poll win

REUTERS 2020-08-07 15:10:11

Sri Lanka’s parliamentary elections handed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother an overwhelming majority, results showed on Friday, giving the family power to enact sweeping changes to t...

Beirut's accidental cargo: How an unscheduled port visit led to disaster

Beirut's accidental cargo: How an unscheduled port visit led to disaster

REUTERS 2020-08-07 12:33:10

The chemicals that went up in flames in Beirut’s deadliest peace-time explosion arrived in the Lebanese capital seven years ago on a leaky Russian-leased cargo ship that, according to its captai...