KATHMANDU, June 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Ever since the death of a young Dalit man killed along with five friends in what activists called a "caste-based massacre", Nepalis have been taking to
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SHANGHAI/HONG KONG, June 17 (Reuters): The controlling shareholder and former chairman of Seazen Group, one of China's largest property developers, was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison af
WASHINGTON, June 17 (Reuters): The United States on Wednesday imposed its toughest sanctions ever targeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to choke off revenue for his government in a bid to force it back to
MOSCOW, June 17 (Reuters): Russia said on Wednesday that differences between other nations over the role of the World Health Organization have delayed a video conference being organised between the permane
OSLO, June 17 (Reuters): Chinese and Norwegian authorities have concluded salmon from Norway was not the source of the coronavirus found on cutting boards at a Beijing wholesale food market, Norway's f
BEIJING, June 17 (Reuters): China and India have agreed to de-escalate the situation at their border as soon as possible following a clash between the their troops, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Wed
SEOUL, June 17 (Reuters): South Korea's President Moon Jae-in faces the biggest crisis yet in his bid to foster reconciliation with North Korea, as it lashes out with the destruction of a joint office
JERUSALEM, June 17 (Reuters): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is weighing a limited initial annexation in the occupied West Bank, hoping to quell international opposition to his pledge of wide territoria
Reuters The report on Tuesday of a powerful treatment for the new coronavirus brought skepticism along with optimism among U.S. doctors, who said the recent withdrawal of an influential COVID-19 st
UNITED NATIONS, June 17 (Reuters): A Saudi Arabia-led military coalition fighting in Yemen asked the United Nations on Tuesday to share details of its accusations that the coalition was responsible for 222
SEOUL, June 17 (Reuters): North Korea said on Wednesday it had rejected a South Korean offer to send special envoys to ease escalating tension over defiance by North Korean defectors and stalled reconcilia
Washington, June 17 (IANS) The global number of COVID-19 cases has increased to over 8.1 million mark, while the death toll surged to over 441,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of
Beijing, June 17 (IANS) A total of 1,255 inbound and outbound flights to Beijing were cancelled until this Wednesday morning since the municipal government increased the emergency level by COVID-19 on Tuesday n
Trial results announced on Tuesday showed dexamethasone, which is used to reduce inflammation in other diseases such as arthritis, reduced death rates by around a third among the most severely ill of COVID-19 p
LONDON, June 16 (Reuters): People under 20 are around half as susceptible to COVID-19 as people aged 20 or above, according to research published on Tuesday, and clinical symptoms of the pandemic disease a
DUBAI, June 16 (Reuters): The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement towards the south of the kingdom on Tuesday af
LONDON, JUNE 16 (IANS): The number of employees on British payrolls fell by more than 600,000 as lockdown restrictions hit labor market heavily amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Office for National Statistics
WELLINGTON, June 16 (Reuters): It took just eight days for New Zealand to lose its COVID-free status when two women who had been given permission to leave quarantine early after arriving from abroad tested
WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters): The U.S. government is in "close coordination" with South Korea after North Korea destroyed an inter-Korean liaison office on Tuesday, a senior Trump administration
LONDON, June 16 (Reuters): Hundreds of thousands of weary seafarers stuck on ships for many months and unable to go home due to the coronavirus pose a risk to the safe operation of the world's merchant
