Tedros Adhanom, director general of the World Health Organization, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi jinping before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on January 28, 2020. (RE
Friday, 20th February, 2026
Support The Morung Express. Your Contributions Matter Click Here
World
South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the pro-democracy Gwangju Uprising at May 18 Democracy Square in Gwangju on May 18. (REUTERS Photo) GENEV
Readers look at a newspaper June 12, 2002 in Nairobi carrying the photograph of Rwandan Felicien Kabuga wanted by the United States. The United States published a "wanted" photograph in Kenyan newspapers
A woman wearing a face mask waits at a bus stop in London, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain on May 18. (REUTERS Photo) LONDON, May 18 (Reuters):&nb
IANS Photo. Washington, May 18 (IANS): The US Air Force has successfully launched its Atlas V rocket, carrying a X-37B space plane for a secretive mission, a media report said on Monday.
Rome, May 18 (IANS): Italy and Spain were among a number of European countries that were further easing their coronavirus lockdown restrictions from Monday. In Italy, which currently has 225,435 COV
IANS Photo. San Francisco, May 18 (IANS) SpaceX is all set to test the "sunshade" it has developed to reduce the brightness of its Starlink broadband satellites which have apparently disturbed
Kabul, May 18 (IANS): At least nine people were killed and around 40 injured on Monday in a Taliban suicide attack near a security base in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, officials said.. "Taliban te
A healthcare worker administers an antibodies test. (Reuters File Photo) Christine Soares Reuters* With much of the world living in lockdown, the spread of the new coronavirus, SARS-C
A Kuwaiti woman wearing a protective face mask poses as she shows her quarantine tracking bracelet upon her arrival from Amman to Kuwait Airport, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in
Migrants wait to disembark from a Spanish coast guard vessel in the port of Arguineguin on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain on May 17. (REUTERS Photo) GRAN CANARIA, May 17 (Reuters): Spa
People walk past the looted premises of cellphone company Syriatel, which is owned by Rami Makhlouf, the cousin of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Deraa on March 21, 2011. (REUTERS File Photo)
A woman reaches for a bag of produce in the Central de Abastos wholesale market after Mexico registered its first death from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mexico City, Mexico on March 19, 2020. (REUTER
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah attend a ceremony to sign a political agreement in Kabul, Afghanistan on May 17. (REUTERS Photo) KABUL, MAY 17 (Reuters): A
People are seen cycling along the Mall, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain on May 17, 2020. (REUTERS Photo) LONDON, May 17 (Reuters): Britain co
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a swearing in ceremony of his new unity government with election rival Benny Gantz, at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on May 17, 2020. (RE
IANS Photo. Jerusalem, May 17 (IANS) Israels Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday that the Chinese Ambassador to the country was found dead at his official residence in the coastal town of Her
London, May 17 (IANS): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has acknowledged frustration over the "complex" easing of England's coronavirus lockdown, the media reported on Sunday. Johnson wrote in the Ma
Washington, May 17 (IANS) US President Donald Trump says the US will reopen, "vaccine or no vaccine", as he announced an objective to deliver a coronavirus vaccine by year end. He likened the vaccine pr
Washington, May 17 (IANS) The overall number of global coronavirus cases has increased to over 4.6 million, while the death toll has surpassed 311,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of S
