Geneva, July 11 (IANS): The World Health Organization (WHO) said the novel coronavirus was yet to be brought under control "in most of the world", while warning that it was actually "getting wors
London, July 11 (IANS): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged people living in the country to return to work if they can, signalling a significant shift away from the current government policy, it was repor
KATHMANDU, July 11 (Reuters) - Heavy rains triggered flash floods and landslides that killed at least 23 people and displaced thousands in western Nepal, officials said on Saturday.
Nine people wer
Washington, July 11 (IANS) The overall number of global COVID-19 cases has surged to over 12.4 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 559,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
BRASILIA, July 11 (Reuters) - Environmentalist Alfredo Sirkis, a founder of Brazil's Green Party and a tireless campaigner for policies to curb climate change, died on Friday in a car crash, television netw
July 11 (Reuters) - New cases of COVID-19 rose by nearly 69,000 across the United States on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, setting a record for the third consecutive day as Walt Disney Co. stuck to its p
July 11 (Reuters) - Healthcare systems worldwide need to upgrade to control disease transmission and cope with large numbers of sick people during the coronavirus pandemic as well as future outbreaks, the head
WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) - New York City prosecutors are very likely to obtain President Donald Trump's tax returns after a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling, but it may not happen before the Nov. 3 elec
WELLINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - New Zealand’s former prime minister Helen Clark warned if the world remained “flat-footed” in its response to pandemics it faces future economic, social and pol
Seoul, July 10 (IANS) Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, said on Friday that another summit with the US was "unnecessary" and "useless" for Pyongyang as long as ther
La Paz, July 10 (IANS) Bolivia's Interim President Jeanine Anez announced that she has tested positive for COVID-19 and will be in quarantine.
"Along with my entire team, we have been work
Washington, July 10 (IANS) The overall number of global COVID-19 cases has surged to over 12.2 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 554,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 9 (Reuters): The Brazilian Press Association on Thursday filed a criminal complaint to the Supreme Court against President Jair Bolsonaro, after he took off his mask in a televised int
ROME, July 9 (Reuters): Italy's coronavirus lockdown is over and the daily death toll has dwindled, but Italians are coping with the fallout of an epidemic that has killed 35,000 people and shaken live
WASHINGTON/SEOUL, July 9 (Reuters): U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday he was "very hopeful" about resuming talks with North Korea and appeared to leave open the possibility of
GENEVA/ZURICH, July 9 (Reuters): The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday it was setting up an independent panel to review its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the response by governments
HONG KONG/LONDON, July 9 (Reuters): When college graduate Wong, 23, leaves Hong Kong to escape Beijing's new national security law, it will be his friends, the stunning views over Victoria Harbour and
NAIROBI, July 9 (Reuters): Nearing 100, Gitu Wa Kahengeri clearly remembers the day when, as a prisoner of Kenya's colonial occupier Britain, he wanted to die.
"I was beaten the whole
BEIJING, July 9 (Reuters): As schools reopened in China after the COVID-19 outbreak, they have thrown themselves into a nationwide exercise to remove books deemed politically incorrect, deepening Chinese P
ROZNO, Slovenia, July 9 (Reuters): A wooden sculpture of U.S. first lady Melania Trump was torched near her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia, on the night of July Fourth, as Americans celebrated U.S. Independ