WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters): The Trump administration is looking at various responses to China's national security law on Hong Kong through the president's working group on capital markets, U.S.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 11 (IANS): A Belgian Prince who contracted coronavirus after attending a party during lockdown in Spain, has been fined 10,400 euros ($11,800), the media reported.
Prince Joachim, a
MOSCOW, June 11 (Reuters): Moscow said on Thursday it would hand out shopping vouchers to people who take part in a vote on reforms that could let Vladimir Putin extend his rule, an offer critics denounced
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters): The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee said on Thursday it had approved an amendment that would make it illegal to deploy the military against peaceful protesters, amid a n
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters): President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order authorizing U.S. sanctions against International Criminal Court employees involved in an investigation into wheth
AMMAN, June 11 (Reuters): Syrian President Bashar al Assad on Thursday dismissed prime minister Imad Khamis, state media said, in a move that follows weeks of deepening economic hardship and a rare outbrea
Atlanta, June 11 (Reuters): One of the four former Minneapolis police officers who were charged over the death of George Floyd, a black man whose death in custody set off protests for police reform and racial j
KATHMANDU, June 11 (Reuters): Nepal's parliament is set to vote at the weekend on a new map of its border with India, an official said on Thursday, underlining the Himalayan nation's determination
SYDNEY, June 11 (Reuters): Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday he would not be intimidated by "coercion" after China restricted some Australian exports and urged Chinese tourists and s
JAKARTA, June 11 (Reuters): Hundreds of children in Indonesia are believed to have died from COVID-19, giving the Southeast Asian country one of the world's highest rates of child deaths from the
SEOUL, June 11 (Reuters): Two North Korean defector-run groups targeted for legal action by South Korean authorities say they intend to continue sending propaganda leaflets and humanitarian aid into North
KUALA LUMPUR, June 11 (Reuters): Malaysia said on Thursday its citizens would be barred from making the haj pilgrimage this year due to concerns over the new coronavirus, following in the steps of neighbou
TOKYO, June 11 (Reuters): Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday that it was "very regrettable" that Taiwan was not accepted to take part as an observer at the World Health Organizat
PARIS, June 11 (Reuters): The coronavirus lockdowns have hit the world's museums very hard and more than 10 percent may never reopen while others will have to put new projects on hold, the United Natio
MOSCOW, June 11 (Reuters): Russia on Thursday rolled out a drug approved to treat patients suffering from the novel coronavirus, its state financial backer said, as the number of infections there surpassed
LONDON, June 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): The coronavirus pandemic is boosting both nationalism and community spirit, unleashing shifts in attitudes that would usually takes years to trickle down, according
Geneva, June 11 (IANS) The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that more research needs to be done to better understand the extent to which COVID-19 is being spread
Washington, June 11 (IANS) The number of COVID-19 cases in the US surpassed the 2 million mark on Thursday, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
As of Thursday morning, the overall number of
Washington, June 11 (IANS) The brother of George Floyd, the African-American man whose death in police custody triggered nationwide protests, urged US lawmakers in a Congressional hearing to "stop the pain
STOCKHOLM, June 10 (Reuters): A Swedish prosecutor closed the case of the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme after 34 years on Wednesday, accusing a graphic designer who died two decades ago of the