Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg again defends decision on not flagging Trump post
UN chief urges countries to protect people on move during COVID-19
US to investigate India, other countries over digital services taxes on tech giants
George Floyd Protests: First Lady Melania Trump appeals for peace and calm
Former US president George W Bush has called upon Americans to examine the nation's "tragic failures" and collectively push for equal justice, amid violent protests across the country over the custodial killing of an African-American man.
Two people including Imam of Wazir Akbar Khan Mosque after a bomb exploded inside the Mosque in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Tuesday. Tariq Arian, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry, said the bomb targeted the Wazir Akber Khan Mosque at around 7:25 p.m., when worshippers had gathered for evening prayers.
As demonstrators flooded streets across America to decry the killing of George Floyd, public health experts watched in alarm — the close proximity of protesters and their failures in many cases to wear masks, along with the police using tear gas, could fuel new transmissions of the coronavirus.
Coronavirus cases have crossed 6.4 million mark worldwide, taking positive patients toll to 6,477,966 with 382,188 deaths while 3,009,648 have recovered, according to Worldometer figures.
The total number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed 6.4 million, including more than 382,000 fatalities. More than 3,009,000 patients are reported to have recovered. Follow this LIVE blog for the latest on coronavirus and its global economic fallout.
Every day a city delays in implementing social distancing measures after the appearance of its first case of coronavirus infection may add as much as 2.4 days to the duration of the outbreak, says an analysis of COVID-19 spread in 58 cities.
The UK and Canada have opposed Russia's return to the G7, deepening a rift over US President Donald Trump's wish for Moscow to rejoin the group of the world's wealthiest nations.
China under the multi-billion-dollar CPEC will set up a 1,124-megawatt power project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir despite India's objection to it, according to a media report on Tuesday.
While the rate of COVID-19 incidence may decrease with increasing temperatures up until 11 degrees Celsius, further warmer temperatures do not decrease disease transmission significantly, according to a study conducted in the US.
The airline will be flying to 27 cities in June and July, up from the 15 that had been earlier announced for June, the Straits Times reported.
Throughout January, the World Health Organization publicly praised China for what it called a speedy response to the new coronavirus. It repeatedly thanked the Chinese government for sharing the genetic map of the virus “immediately,” and said its work and commitment to transparency were “very impressive, and beyond words.”
The Democratic Republic of the Congo govt on Monday announced the second outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the western city of Mbandaka, in Équateur province. The announcement comes as a long, difficult and complex Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is in its final phase, while the country also battles COVID-19 and the world’s largest measles outbreak.
China has threatened to retaliate against the UnS after President Donald Trump said he will no longer extend trading privileges to Hong Kong over Beijing's bid to exercise tighter control over the former British colony.
Elections for five non-permanent members of the UN Security Council will be held on June 17, according to the world body's provisional programme.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the world is "losing its ability" to use critically important antimicrobial medicines.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said China has moved up its forces along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India and that its recent actions, be it on the India border, or Hong Kong or the South China Sea, have been part of the Chinese behaviour in the recent past.
There is no place for hate and racism in the society, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said, asserting that empathy and shared understanding are a start, but more needs to be done.
As angry protests against police brutality rage across America, sparking racial unrest eerily similar to the 1960s, Facebook employees funnelled into Twitter their rage against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's version of free speech and staged a 'virtual' walk-out for the first time in the company's history, on Monday.
Coronavirus cases have crossed 6.3 million mark worldwide, taking positive patients toll to 6,365,473 with 3,77,404 deaths while 2,903,418 have recovered, according to Worldometer figures.
President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to deploy the United States military unless states quickly halted the violent protests that have convulsed cities from coast to coast, speaking in the White House Rose Garden as tear gas canisters could be heard exploding just a block away.
The total number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed 6.3 million, including more than 377,000 fatalities. More than 2,903,000 patients are reported to have recovered. Follow this LIVE blog for latest on coronavirus and its global economic fallout.
A Sikh doctor, who was tested positive for the novel coronavirus, died at a hospital in northwest Pakistan on Monday, officials said. Dr Phag Chand Singh was on ventilator at a private hospital in the provincial capital Peshawar since last four days, they said
A total of 75 bodies out of 97 people killed in the plane crash in Karachi last month have been identified so far through DNA tests, according to a media report.
Turkey on Monday partially resumes domestic flight operations after a two-month closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. National flag carrier Turkish Airlines and the Pegasus Airlines currently only resumed flights from Istanbul to a few major cities, reports Xinhua news agency.
Tokyo entered phase two of its de-escalation on Monday with public schools reopening after a three-month closure and a larger number of businesses resuming activities.
Thousands of people returned to work and the public transport was back on the Manila roads on Monday as the government began relaxing the 78-day strict stay-at-home orders – the longest lockdown in the world – to restart the economy of the country.
George Floyd, the 46-year-old black man whose cold-blooded murder at the hands of a white police officer has sparked protests across the US, will be laid to rest in his hometown of Houston, following a public visitation in Minneapolis.
US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea announced that Washington has planned to impose new sanctions against the Hezbollah movement and possibly on supporters of the group.
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