-- 2021-07-02 18:35:23
Protesters have toppled statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II in the Canadian city of Winnipeg as anger grows over the discovery of the remains of hundreds of children in unmarked graves at...
Reuters 2021-07-02 11:35:56
India reached the grim milestone of 400,000 deaths from the coronavirus on Friday, half of them during a second wave in the past few months that overwhelmed the healthcare system and crematoriums. In...
Reuters 2021-07-02 10:01:45
Germany and Spain are among nine countries in Europe who have told India they will accept travellers inoculated with Covishield, the Indian-made version of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, Indian forei...
Reuters 2021-07-01 18:15:08
The chief financial officer of the Trump Organisation surrendered to authorities on Thursday as he and former US President Donald Trump's namesake company prepare to face criminal charges. Allen Weis...
Reuters 2021-07-01 18:09:45
At least 10 people were killed overnight in a raid on the city of Beni in eastern Congo, witnesses said, and a civil society group and a monitoring body said Islamist militants were suspected of being...
REUTERS 2021-07-01 16:34:26
Balancing a new software programming job and caring for a toddler in Tokyo, LaShawn Toyoda saw increasing confusion in her social media feeds among non-Japanese speakers about how they could get a COV...
-- 2021-07-01 15:48:59
Hundreds of vaccinated foreign tourists arrived on the Thai resort island of Phuket on Thursday, the first visitors to its beaches and golf courses under a pilot programme designed to revive a tourism...
-- 2021-07-01 12:36:24
Indonesia has announced a lockdown on its main island Java, as well as the tourism destination of Bali. The announcement by President Joko Widodo comes as the country battles multiple outbreaks a...
Reuters 2021-07-01 11:23:25
Covid-19-related deaths in Mexico likely exceed the confirmed toll by about 60 per cent, Health Ministry data released on Wednesday showed. Authorities have said previously that fatalities likely far...
REUTERS 2021-07-01 10:43:43
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday hailed a "new world" created by the country's people as China's Communist Party marked the centenary of its founding, and warned foreign forces attemping to bu...
-- 2021-07-01 10:23:42
A heatwave that smashed all-time high temperature records in western Canada and the US Northwest has left a rising death toll in its wake as officials brace for more sizzling weather and the threat of...
Reuters 2021-06-30 19:44:19
Gun in hand, 55-year-old Dost Mohammad Salangi recites poetry as he leads a small group of men to a look-out post high in the rugged hills of Parwan province, north of the Afghan capital Kabul. Heavi...
REUTERS 2021-06-30 19:14:02
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced plans on Tuesday to launch a second national airline as part of a broader strategy to turn the kingdom into a global logistics hub as it seeks...
REUTERS 2021-06-30 16:31:49
Hong Kong media group Next Digital, owned by jailed tycoon Jimmy Lai, will cease operating from July 1 after the company's assets were frozen as part of a national security investigation, according to...
Reuters 2021-06-30 13:32:56
India reported on Wednesday 45,951 new Covid-19 infections over the past 24 hours, data from the health ministry showed. India's coronavirus-related deaths rose by 817 overnight.
-- 2021-06-30 12:04:28
A seven-year-old boy who was slammed to the floor 27 times during judo practice has died in Taiwan. In April, he had suffered severe brain haemorrhaging after a judo class which saw both his clas...
REUTERS 2021-06-30 11:42:34
Govind Pasi, a grassroots member of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), says he got no help from his connections in the ruling party when his wife contracted coronavirus and died at home for lack of...
REUTERS 2021-06-30 11:17:09
China's ruling Communist Party celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding on July 1. What Are The Origins Of The Party? The Communist Party of China (CCP) was founded in 1921, holding its firs...
-- 2021-06-30 11:12:22
Dozens of people have died in Canada amid an unprecedented heatwave that has smashed temperature records. Police in the Vancouver area have responded to more than 130 sudden deaths since Friday....
Reuters 2021-06-30 10:36:33
Myanmar's military authorities will release around 700 prisoners from Yangon's Insein jail on Wednesday, prison chief Zaw Zaw told Reuters. The prison chief declined to specify who would be released....
Thomson Reuters Foundation 2021-06-29 20:12:06
India's Kerala state has launched a crackdown on the payment of dowry after the deaths of four young married women highlighted domestic abuse linked to the custom, which remains common despite being b...
Reuters 2021-06-29 15:11:38
Indonesia's government will wait until Covid-19 cases fall significantly before opening Bali to foreign tourists, the country's tourism minister said in an interview. The coronavirus pandemic has dev...
Reuters 2021-06-29 13:50:55
Australia's most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), reported a slight rise in Covid-19 infections on Tuesday, while officials tightened curbs and pushed for vaccinations to contain flare-ups of th...
-- 2021-06-29 12:52:38
The global Covid-19 caseload surged past 181 million Tuesday even with mass inoculations underway. The total caseload and fatalities stand at 181,388,210 and 3,928,804, respectively, as of Tuesday mo...
-- 2021-06-29 11:54:36
Hong Kong is to ban all flights from the UK to curb the spread of the Delta variant of Covid. The UK is to be classified as an "extremely high-risk" country, the highest rating Hong Kong has for...
Reuters 2021-06-29 11:53:48
Search-and-rescue teams pulled two more bodies from the concrete and steel rubble of a partially collapsed Florida condominium tower on Monday, bringing the death toll to 11 with 150 people still list...
-- 2021-06-29 10:12:45
Ethiopia's government has declared a ceasefire in its war-torn Tigray region, as rebel fighters claim control of the regional capital Mekelle. Residents reported scenes of jubilation with thousan...
-- 2021-06-29 09:35:59
US troops came under rocket fire in Syria on Monday, but escaped injury, in apparent retaliation for weekend US airstrikes against Iran-aligned militia in Syria and Iraq. A US military spokesman said...
-- 2021-06-29 08:34:20
United Nations peacekeeping missions globally are preparing for a possible shutdown on Thursday if the 193-member UN General Assembly is unable to agree on a new $6 billion budget for the year to June...
-- 2021-06-28 22:10:33
India will provide free visas to 500,000 tourists as part of the country’s measures to revive the tourism sector battered by the Covid-19 pandemic. India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sithar...
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