HONG KONG, July 17 (Reuters): Hong Kong police arrested on Friday pro-democracy politician Tam Tak-chi, who is expected to run for a seat in the legislature in September's election, on charges inc
LONDON, July 17 (Reuters): Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he hoped Britain could return to normality before Christmas, setting out a phased removal of lockdown restrictions, but warned that while he was
TAIPEI, July 17 (Reuters): Taiwanese officials in Hong Kong have been told their visas will not be renewed unless they sign a document supporting Beijing's claim to Taiwan under its "one China&quo
SEOUL, July 17 (Reuters): South Korea on Friday approved an early stage clinical trial of Celltrion Inc's experimental COVID-19 treatment drug, making it the country's first such antibody drug to b
MANILA, July 17 (Reuters): At the peak of the Philippines' war on drugs, people in the rundown neighbourhoods of Navotas in the capital Manila grew used to police knocking on doors, or bursting into th
London, July 17 (IANS): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Friday unveil a nine-month plan to get the country back to "near-normal" following the coronavirus pandemic, according to media reports.
Colombo, July 17 (IANS): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday said that the island country will not face a lockdown nor curfew following the detection of a new COVID-19 cluster at a rehab centr
Washington, July 17 (IANS): Over 60 per cent of voters in the US trust Anthony Fauci, the country's top infectious diseases expert, but not President Donald Trump when it came to information on the COV
New Delhi, July 17 (PTI): The time has come for the world to push back against the challenge posed by the Chinese Communist Party, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said as he contended that the United States
Washington, July 17 (IANS) The overall number of global COVID-19 cases has topped 13.7 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 589,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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Washington, July 17 (IANS) With more than 77,000 new COVID-19 cases, US broke the record for the number of confirmed infections registered in a single day, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters): A solar probe built by the European Space Agency and NASA has delivered the closest photos ever taken of the sun's surface, revealing a landscape rife with thousands of t
LIBREVILLE, July 16 (Reuters): Gabon President Ali Bongo on Thursday promoted his defence minister, Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda, to prime minister on Thursday, the first time a woman has held the role
LONDON/OTTAWA, July 16 (Reuters) - Hackers backed by the Russian state are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research from academic and pharmaceutical institutions around the world, Britain’s
GAZA, July 16 (Reuters): Dismayed by the plastic bags piling up in the Gaza Strip, a group of young Palestinians is recycling discarded fabric into reusable totes to clamp down on waste and protect the env
TOKYO, July 16 (Reuters): Ikuko, the "big sister" of Tokyo's Akasaka geisha district, came to the capital to seek her fortune in 1964, the year Tokyo first hosted the Olympics. But the novel
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Hospitals in Iran face acute shortages of medical personnel and beds as the country tackles a powerful second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior official of Tehran’s anti-coronav
LONDON, July 16 (Reuters): Swedish activist Greta Thunberg said on Thursday the world needed an economic overhaul to have a chance of beating climate change and that countries should be prepared to tear up
New York, July 16 (Reuters): The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the second federal execution this week and in 17 years to take place, overturning orders from a lower court after the U.S. Dep
PARIS, July 16 (Reuters): Back at the start of France's COVID-19 crisis in February, epidemiologist Cyrille Delpierre encountered a problem when trying to find out what groups of people were falling si