Millions of census-takers began knocking on doors across China on Sunday for a once-a-decade head count of the world's largest population that for the first time will use mobile apps to help crunch... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A super typhoon barrelled into the southern part of the Philippines' main island of Luzon on Sunday, bringing "catastrophic" violent winds and intense rains with two landfalls so far, the weather... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Australia's foreign minister has welcomed Qatar's steps to prosecute those responsible for subjecting female travellers to gynaecological searches at the Gulf state's main airport last month. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
About 18 election rallies by US President Donald Trump are estimated to have lead to more than 30,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and likely led to more than 700 deaths, a new study by Stanford... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden has urged the Americans to vote out President Donald Trump of presidency, alleging he has divided and failed the nation in the last four years. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump is a warrior and needs four more years in the White House, his daughter Ivanka Trump has said, asserting that he delivered more than his commitment to his countrymen. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
French President Emmanuel Macron expressed understanding that cartoons of the prophet Mohammed could shock Muslims, but said that this could never be used to justify violence, in an interview with... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Legendary British actor Sean Connery, best known for playing fictional spy James Bond in seven films, has died aged 90, the BBC reported on Saturday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A Turkish mother and three of her children were pulled on Saturday from under the rubble of a collapsed building where they had been trapped for almost 18 hours, following a powerful earthquake that... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A Saudi man rammed a car at high speed into the outer walls of Mecca's Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest site, authorities said on Saturday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Joe Biden intensified his attacks Friday on President Donald Trump as they battled over the American Midwest, chasing every last vote with four days to go in a region that propelled the Republican to... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A third man has been detained for questioning in connection with the knife attack on a church in the southern French city of Nice which left three people dead, a legal source said Saturday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
COVID-19 patients who were administered a novel antibody had fewer symptoms and were less likely to require hospitalisation or emergency medical care than those who did not receive the therapy,... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Facebook Inc confirmed on Friday it was temporarily halting recommendations for all political groups and any new groups in the run-up to Tuesday's U.S. presidential election. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
France stepped up security nationwide on Friday to guard against Islamist attacks after the fatal stabbings at a church in Nice, while protests flared in parts of the Middle East, Asia and Africa over... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Canadians need to do more to tackle a second wave of the coronavirus by slashing the number of personal contacts they have with others, health authorities said on Friday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
More than 200,000 people in the Philippines were ordered to evacuate their homes Saturday as the most powerful typhoon of the year so far barrels towards the country, with authorities warning of... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Kamala Harris is on the verge of what would be a double-dream for US Democrats: becoming the nation's first woman vice president and ending Donald Trump's turbulent rule. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Harvey Weinstein was sued on Friday by the former production assistant who the disgraced movie producer was convicted at trial of having sexually assaulted. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
22 people were killed and many injured Friday in Turkey when a powerful earthquake struck the country's western coast and parts of Greece. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A jury in Texas on Friday decided that Apple should pay $503 million for infringing virtual private network technology patented by software security firm VirnetX. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Friday sought support in Midwestern states where the coronavirus has roared back, with Trump falsely accusing doctors of profiting from... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday nominated the country's first female security minister in charge of coordinating the fight against drug cartels and other criminals. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The United States passed nine million reported coronavirus cases on Friday and broke its own record for daily new infections for the second day in a row, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A US federal judge on Friday issued an injunction temporarily blocking an executive order by President Donald Trump aimed at banning TikTok, throwing up a legal roadblock ahead of a November 12... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Walmart reversed course Friday and said it would keep guns in shopping areas, quickly shifting away from a plan to keep firearms away from customers. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The World Health Organization said Friday that international experts had held their first meeting, albeit virtually, with their Chinese counterparts in order to investigate the animal origins of the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
France entered a new lockdown on Friday as the resurgent coronavirus pandemic increasingly forced other countries to consider following suit, with Europe passing 10 million total infections and the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump's differences with rival presidential candidate Joe Biden extend far beyond planet earth. President Trump's plans to win the race in space call for a 2024 moon mission, and... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Qatar said on Friday that those responsible for the invasive gynaecological searches of women passengers at Doha airport had been referred for prosecution over the "violations". https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A 47-year-old man believed to have been in contact with the suspected knifeman who killed three people at a church in the French city of Nice has been detained for questioning, a judicial source said... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Waving rainbow flags and shedding tears of joy, two Taiwanese same-sex couples tied the knot on Friday at a mass wedding hosted by the military in another landmark for Asia's LGBT community. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
More attacks on French soil are likely as France is engaged in a "war against Islamist ideology", its interior minister said on Friday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Facebook Inc's Instagram said on Thursday it was making changes to its image sharing platform for US users to prevent the spread of misinformation around the November 3 presidential election. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
India and the US have held wide ranging discussions on issues on the UN Security Council agenda and agreed to work closely given their shared values of democracy, pluralism and rule-based... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Jill Biden is no stranger to the glare of the political spotlight. Her husband has been a Washington insider since they wed in 1977, and she was America's second lady for eight years. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The tank traps on the beaches of Kinmen Island are a stark reminder that Taiwan lives under the constant threat of a Chinese invasion -- and fears of a conflict breaking out are now at their highest... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The White House coronavirus task force has warned that much of the country is in the grips of an "unrelenting" rise in COVID-19 cases, urging tough countermeasures, while at least nine states on... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The United States revealed on Thursday it had seized Iranian missiles shipped to Yemen and sold 1.1 million barrels of previously seized Iranian oil that was bound for Venezuela, in the Trump... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
French president Emmanuel Macron vowed his country would stand firm against religious extremists after a knife-wielding man killed three people at a church, in the country's second attack blamed on... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
France and Germany are going back into lockdown, while coronavirus cases in the U.S. surging to new highs, but at the other end of the world Taiwan has achieved a different kind of record -- more than... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
If all goes well, the first doses of a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine will likely become available to some high-risk Americans in late December or early January, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top US... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday warned of the potential for civil unrest as votes are tallied in a US election that will be "a test" for the social network. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Social networking platform Twitter on Thursday removed former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's tweet, for violating its rules banning the glorification of violence, shortly after a violent... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Two prominent Indian-Americans are among Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden's "core advisers" who have been guiding him on issues ranging from the coronavirus pandemic, economic recovery to... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Walmart plans to remove guns and ammunition from its sales floors in the US following unrest in Philadelphia this week, a spokeswoman said Thursday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The United States notched a record number of new coronavirus cases on Thursday, for the first time topping 90,000 diagnoses in 24 hours, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The late launch of new 5G phones caused Apple Inc's customers to put off buying new devices, leading the company on Thursday to report the steepest quarterly drop in iPhone sales in two years. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Philadelphia's mayor said Thursday a curfew he had put in effect the previous evening over unrest that followed the police killing of a Black man would not be maintained for a second night. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The United States has given the green light to extradite a former special forces soldier and his son to Japan for assisting auto executive Carlos Ghosn's daring escape, although a judge Thursday put... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The US should walk with China toward the same goal instead of continuing provocations in the sea and air spaces around it, Chinese Defence Ministry said on Thursday as it vowed to protect its... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The United States said Thursday that its citizens born in Jerusalem will be able to list Israel as their place of birth, after President Donald Trump recognized the contested holy city as the Jewish... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Britain's main opposition Labour party on Thursday suspended its former leader Jeremy Corbyn, after a government watchdog found his office broke equality law through its "inexcusable" handling of... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Moderna, one of the front-runners in the race to develop a vaccine for the new coronavirus, said on Thursday it was preparing to launch the experimental vaccine and had already received $1.1 billion... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A London judge on Thursday agreed to delay the trial phase of Meghan Markle's high-profile lawsuit against a British newspaper group for privacy and copyright breaches. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A teenage Hong Kong democracy activist was charged on Thursday with secession, the first public political figure to be prosecuted under a sweeping new national security law Beijing imposed on the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
China is the "gravest threat" to the future of religious freedom, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday, in his latest verbal assault on Beijing during a whirlwind Asian tour. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A Saudi citizen wounded a guard in a knife attack at the French consulate in Jeddah on Thursday, state media and the French embassy said. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Underlining that India and US relations go beyond political parties, the State Department on Wednesday said that Washington needs New Delhi's partnership to face many global challenges and to solve... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
An attacker with a knife killed two people and wounded several others at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, French media and police said, in an incident the city's mayor described as... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Scientists at MIT have designed a novel face mask that can not only filter out the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, but also inactivate it using heat. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden will rally voters just hours apart in the Florida city of Tampa on Thursday, their campaign paths crossing for the first time as the rivals' fight... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has promised to make passing the LGBTQ rights legislation known as the Equality Act a top priority, hoping to sign what would be a landmark civil rights law... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The US ambassador to Jamaica exchanged insults with people on Twitter who accused him of interfering in the country's internal affairs, telling one he used too much marijuana and another that "you... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The World Trade Organization's bid to select a new leader was plunged into uncertainty on Wednesday after the United States rejected the Nigerian woman proposed as the global trade watchdog's next... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The Trump administration has proposed to scrap the computerised lottery system to grant H-1B work visas to foreign technology professionals and replace it with a wage-level-based selection process, a... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
While Joe Biden has spent much of the campaign criticizing US President Donald Trumps policies toward China, his own platform sounds more like a change of tactics than a strategy overhaul. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
India on Wednesday strongly deplored the personal attacks against French President Emmanuel Macron following his tough stance on radical Islam, calling it a violation of the most basic standards of... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
As countries across the globe grapple with the prospect of renewed lockdowns, the Australian city of Melbourne offers a stark lesson on the costs of bringing the coronavirus under control. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The 2020 Presidential election is turning out to be the most expensive election in history and twice as expensive as the previous presidential election cycle, with the total cost of the election... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vented his outrage Wednesday at a "disgusting" cartoon in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo depicting him looking up a woman's skirt while drinking beer... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Hurricane Zeta made landfall along the coast of the southeastern US state of Louisiana on Wednesday, bringing dangerous winds and storm surge, US meteorologists said. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
French President Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday a new lockdown aimed at halting an alarming acceleration of Covid-19 cases, to take effect from Thursday night until "at least December 1." https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden cast his ballot in the US presidential race Wednesday in Delaware, six days before the end of a turbulent campaign pitting him against incumbent Donald Trump. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called China's Communist government a "predator" Wednesday as he sought to tempt Sri Lanka away from Beijing's influence and later bolstered the US diplomatic... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Over a thousand users of Twitter on Wednesday reported outages on the social networking site from several parts of the world, including India. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A US Senate Commerce Committee hearing on a key social media legal protection was briefly delayed when Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg struggled to appear remotely. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Melania Trump on Tuesday who hit the campaign trail for the re-election of Republican President Donald Trump agreed that her husband is "handsome" in response to a woman who yelled it out during the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
There has been a "remarkable shift" in the Sikh community's support for President Donald Trump, mainly because of his policies that helped small businesses in America and to strengthen the India-US... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Antibody responses to the coronavirus may diminish over time, according to a study that showed the natural defenses waning in Britons who'd previously been exposed. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today called on Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and discussed a range of bilateral issues, including economic partnership based on transparent trade and... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Joe Biden flayed Donald Trump on Tuesday with accusations the US President has surrendered to a surging pandemic, as the Democrat took his campaign to the Republican stronghold of Georgia one week... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Qatar said Wednesday it "regrets" infringing personal freedoms, as it explained invasive examinations of female passengers during a search for an abandoned baby's mother at Doha airport. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
China, in a sharp reaction to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressing support for India's efforts to defend its sovereignty - a reference to the military stand-off in Ladakh - has stressed that... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
UK Vaccine Taskforce Chair Kate Bingham said on Tuesday that the first generation of COVID-19 vaccines "is likely to be imperfect" and that they "might not work for everyone". https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed the mainstream media and big tech companies for blocking the alleged corruption cases against his opponent Democratic challenger Joe Biden. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A "self-help" guru convicted of running a cult-like organization of sex slaves who were branded with his initials was sentenced to 120 years in prison by a New York judge Tuesday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
First Lady Melania Trump on Tuesday hit the campaign trail for her president husband for the first time on her own this year, praising him as a "fighter" and offering support to pandemic victims. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
President Donald Trump has turned jealous of COVID-19 media coverage, said former US president Barack Obama in his matter-of-factly speaking style Tuesday, accusing his successor of converting the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Pfizer executives expressed measured optimism Tuesday over the prospect of providing a coronavirus vaccine in 2020 as the pharma giant reported lower third-quarter profits due to disruption in... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Moderna Inc said on Tuesday United Kingdom's health regulator has started a real-time review of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Novavax Inc on Tuesday delayed the start of a late-stage US trial of its experimental coronavirus vaccine by roughly a month to the end of November, citing delays in scaling up the manufacturing... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump on Monday taunted opponent Joe Biden for forgetting his name and calling him "George" just a week before the election. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
New Jersey tech entrepreneur Arun Bantval is US presidential candidate Joe Biden's top fake-news watchdog on messaging service WhatsApp about the Democrat and his Indian American running mate Kamala... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Drugmaker Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday it was not yet ready to release data from the late-stage trial of the COVID-19 vaccine candidate it is developing with Germany's BioNTech SE. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The once-secret princess of Belgium has met former king Albert for the first time since her legal battle to be accepted as his daughter, the palace said Tuesday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A car bomb attack on an Afghan police base followed by an ongoing gun battle have killed two policemen and wounded dozens of people in a city bordering Pakistan, officials said Tuesday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
China's foreign ministry said the country will take necessary measures to uphold its sovereignty and security interests, after the United States approved a further $2.4 billion in potential arms sales... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Boston Police said on Monday they had arrested a 39-year-old Boston man in connection with the burning of a ballot box early on Sunday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
About 15 per cent of deaths worldwide from COVID-19 may be linked to long-term exposure to air pollution, according to a study published today. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
China has raised objections to what it called U.S. bullying of Sri Lanka after Washington said the Indian Ocean island must make "difficult but necessary choices" regarding its ties with China. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
At least seven students were killed and scores more wounded Tuesday in a bomb attack on a Koran study class at a religious school in northwestern Pakistan, officials said. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Social media company Twitter Inc on Monday flagged a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump about mail-in ballots, adding a disclaimer describing the post's content as "disputed" and potentially... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A three-year-old Texas boy has died after shooting himself with a gun he found during his own birthday party, police said Monday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
There may be far more water on the Moon than previously thought, according to two studies published Monday raising the tantalising prospect that astronauts on future space missions could find... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Asymptomatic coronavirus sufferers appear to lose detectable antibodies sooner than people who have exhibited Covid-19 symptoms, according to one of the biggest studies of its kind in Britain... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Long-term exposure to air pollution may be linked to 15 percent of Covid-19 deaths globally, according to research published Tuesday that highlights the health risks posed by greenhouse gas emissions. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The US Senate confirmed conservative jurist Amy Coney Barrett as the Supreme Court's newest justice Monday, delivering a landmark and controversial win for President Donald Trump just eight days... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
NASA's robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex is set to begin on Tuesday a delicate operation to store the precious particles it scooped up from the asteroid Bennu, but which were leaking into space when a... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The superintendent of a top US military academy resigned from his post Monday, after the Virginia governor ordered an investigation into accusations of systemic racism at the school. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Twitter said Monday it would take the proactive step of alerting its users to potential misinformation in preparation for unverified claims about the November 3 US election. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Donald Trump's chief of staff said Sunday that "we're not going to control the pandemic," drawing a rebuke from the Biden campaign that "they are admitting defeat." https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The World Health Organization chief insisted Monday that it was still possible to rein in Covid-19 even in places with surging outbreaks, warning against giving up the fight. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Britain's Prince Harry said it took him years to realise that unconscious racial bias existed and his eyes had been opened by spending time in his wife Meghan's shoes. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The COVID-19 vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford produces an immune response in both elderly and young people and adverse reactions were lower among the elderly, British drug maker... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Along a five-kilometre (three-mile) stretch of road in Sulaimaniyah, an Iraqi Kurdish artist on Monday unveiled a stitched collage of clothes from women survivors of domestic violence. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called on Turks to boycott French goods as relations between the NATO allies deteriorated over Paris's hardened stance against radical Islam. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said she will seek to stay on as head of the U.S. House of Representatives if her fellow Democrats keep their majority after the Nov. 3 general election,... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The FBI is investigating a fire set on Sunday in a Boston ballot drop box holding over 120 ballots, with Massachusetts election officials describing the incident as a "deliberate attack". https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The US tech giant Facebook may introduce emergency measures to regulate viral content in case of election-related conflicts and unrest in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
China will impose sanctions on U.S. entities participating in US arms sales to Taiwan, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Monday are down to the final full week of campaigning before the November 3 election, as surging coronavirus cases and a COVID-19 outbreak... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Staff at a major London hospital trust have been told to be ready to receive the first batches of the vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc, The Sun newspaper... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Early results from tests for a coronavirus vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford, in collaboration with AstraZeneca Plc, show it produces a robust immune response in elderly people, the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Democratic Party's vice-presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris on Sunday said the church has always been a source of strength and a place for reflection for her. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The United States has seen its highest ever number of new COVID-19 cases in the past two days, keeping the pandemic a top election issue as Vice President Mike Pence travels the country to campaign... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Donald Trump's chief of staff said Sunday that "we're not going to control the pandemic," drawing a rebuke from the Biden campaign that "they are admitting defeat." https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Kuwait's retail co-ops have pulled French products in boycott over the use of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a French school class on freedom of expression whose teacher was then beheaded by a... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Early voting in the 2020 US election has surpassed all the pre-election ballots from four years earlier, an independent vote monitor said Sunday, with nine days still to go before the November 3 poll. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Pope Francis, leaving his mark on the Roman Catholic Church into the future, named 13 cardinals from eight countries on Sunday, including nine who are eligible to enter a conclave to elect his... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
British soldiers on Sunday boarded an oil tanker off England's south coast and detained seven suspects, the defence ministry said, after the crew were forced to take shelter from stowaways who... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday called for global solidarity in the rollout of any future coronavirus vaccine, as the number of cases soared across the world. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Turkey on Sunday said it had offered condolences to France over the gruesome killing of teacher Samuel Paty after Paris disputed the claim. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
France set a new daily record for coronavirus infections with 52,010 recorded in 24 hours, official data showed Sunday, topping 50,000 for the first time. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has written a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeking a ban on Islamophobic content on the social networking site, the government said on Sunday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Israel will begin human trials for a potential COVID-19 vaccine developed by a research institute overseen by the Defence Ministry on November 1 after receiving regulatory approval, the ministry said... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A divided US Senate on Sunday narrowly advanced President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, setting up her contentious but all-but-certain final confirmation on Monday, just... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US presidential challenger Joe Biden on Sunday accused Donald Trump of giving up in the fight against Covid-19 after Trump's chief of staff said "we are not going to control the pandemic." https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez declared a national state of emergency Sunday, and a curfew covering all of Spain except the Canary Islands, in a bid to curb a second wave of coronavirus cases. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan accused French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday of "attacking Islam", after the European leader criticised Islamists and defended the publication of cartoons... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris has said her party''s views on issues like healthcare and the coronavirus pandemic are shared by a majority of Americans, flaying President... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump is seeking a second term to help himself and his wealthy friends, Barack Obama has alleged, as he tore into his successor for not having a plan to combat the COVID-19... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Popular Indian-American Republican politician Nikki Haley has revealed that Donald Trump, soon after winning the November 2016 US presidential election, had offered her the position of Secretary of... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday, a spokesman said, the latest in a list of figures connected to Donald Trump's administration to do so. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
White House challenger Joe Biden has yet again slammed US President Donald Trump, just days before the United States elects its next leader, over his choice of words as he accused Mr Trump of a poor... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Indian Americans have become a force to reckon within the US and President Donald Trump understands their power, said the president's re-election campaign official Saturday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that a trio of normalisation accords with Arab states offered an end to the Jewish state's former geographic isolation, with shorter and cheaper... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Afghan special forces have killed a high-ranking Al-Qaeda leader who was also wanted by the United States, Afghanistan's intelligence service said late Saturday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee, who transformed the South Korean firm into a global tech titan, died at the age of 78 on Sunday, the company said. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
About 200 people protested outside the residence of France's ambassador to Israel Saturday against President Emmanuel Macron, after he vowed his country would not "give up cartoons" depicting the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Facebook has demanded that New York University pull the plug on a research project into the platform's targeting practices for political ads, saying it is a violation of terms to collect user data. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday slammed his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, over his policies toward Muslims, saying that he needed "mental checks." https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Growing global demand for food is putting a squeeze on available land and one French startup says it has the answer: indoor insect farming. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Hundreds of travel-starved diners ate lunch and watched seat-back films aboard two parked Singapore Airlines jets turned into pop-up restaurants on Saturday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump said Friday he has not been a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen -- even before a clip from the British comedian's new Borat movie forced the US president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani into... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Health officials reviewing Gilead Science Inc's remdesivir against COVID-19 should consider all evidence, including a trial in which the medicine failed, before giving it the green light, the top WHO... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The former editor of a New York newspaper once owned by President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner was charged on Friday by federal prosecutors with cyberstalking three people in connection... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
North Korea has warned its citizens to stay indoors, saying seasonal yellow dust blowing in from China might carry the new coronavirus into the country. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A roadside bomb tore through a passenger bus east of the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing nine civilians, officials said, in the latest attack blamed on the Taliban. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that he is even ready to initiate talks with his British counterpart Boris Johnson to get Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif deported... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A record of nearly 80,000 new Covid-19 infections over the course of a day were reported in the United States on Friday, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The 2+2 India-US ministerial in New Delhi next week would review the accomplishments and lay down the next steps for the global cooperation between the two largest democracies in the world, a senior... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Joe Biden and his running mate Senator Kamala Harris have the best understanding of the Indian-American community, the diaspora leaders supporting the two Democratic candidates have said, describing... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
I have always felt deeply connected to the Indian American community because of the values we share which were passed down from my Irish ancestors who risked everything for a better life in America,... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The US needs four more years of President Donald Trump at the White House, his deputy and running mate Mike Pence told his countrymen in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, arguing that the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump on Friday said this election for Americans is a choice between a "super recovery" by his administration and a "depression" by his Democratic challenger Joe Biden. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
After months of meticulous tracking, authorities in the western US state of Washington on Friday said they had uncovered the first ever nest of the deadly Asian giant hornet in the country. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
NASA said Friday that its robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex had succeeded in collecting a large sample of particles from the Bennu asteroid this week -- but so much that it was leaking. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The crew of a US Navy aircraft was killed today when the two-seat airplane crashed in a residential neighbourhood in Alabama, according to the US Navy. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday said Americans are not learning to live with COVID-19, but learning to die with it as the pandemic has dwarfed anything that the country faced in... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A testy exchange between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in Thursday's TV debate has renewed focus on the unknown whereabouts of parents of 545 migrant children separated from their families under US... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
More than a half million people in the United States could die from COVID-19 by the end of February next year, but around 130,000 of those lives could be saved if everybody were to wear masks,... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
More than 50 million Americans have voted early in the White House race pitting US President Donald Trump against Democrat Joe Biden, a group monitoring balloting said Friday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Pakistan will stay on the "grey list" of the global terror financing watchdog till February next year, the body ruled on Friday, as the country failed to meet the conditions needed for unfettered... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A second debate planned for October 15 was cancelled after Trump came down with Covid-19 and declined to take part in a virtual debate. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
With more than 40,000 cases and 1,000 deaths, Myanmar is facing one of Southeast Asia's worst coronavirus outbreaks, and the lockdown in Yangon has left hundreds of thousands of people without work... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The United States is bullying countries to pick sides over their ties to China, but such efforts will not succeed, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a news briefing on Friday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Sri Lankan lawmakers approved amendments to the constitution that strengthened the powers of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and took away parliament's role in making key appointments such as judges and... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The United States on Thursday urged Sri Lanka to make "difficult but necessary" decisions to secure its economic independence for long-term prosperity. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden's final debate on Thursday was a starkly more civil affair than their messy first showdown. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Friday that China will never allow its sovereignty, security and development interests to be undermined, adding that the Chinese people are not to be trifled with. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Democratic candidate Joe Biden on Thursday denounced President Donald Trump for befriending North Korea's "thug" leader, likening his diplomacy to working with Hitler. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The pandemic that's led to more than 1 million deaths globally has also led to a decline in individual wealth, yet household wealth largely held up and even increased in China and India. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed he was the "least racist person" in the room during his final debate with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who responded saying Trump adds... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
At least she didn't have to wait in line. A US astronaut cast her ballot from the International Space Station on Thursday, making her voice heard in the presidential election despite being 253 miles... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Democratic White House challenger Joe Biden warned in his final debate with Donald Trump on Thursday any country that interferes in the US election "will pay a price" if he is elected. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Fox News Breaking News Alert WATCH LIVE: Trump, Biden face-off in final presidential debate before election, beginning at 9 pm ET on Fox News Channel 10/22/20 5:59 PM
US President Donald Trump said Covid-19 is a worldwide problem. 2.2 billion people have been affected by the horrible disease came from China. We have a vaccine coming up. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
President Donald Trump squares off against Democratic challenger Joe Biden in what promises to be a bruising final debate with less than two weeks left in their turbulent fight for the White House.The... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump and Joe Biden hold their final debate Thursday in a primetime television clash where even a plexiglass barrier and the moderator's mute button are unlikely to dampen sparks... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine undergoing Phase III clinical trials with British pharma giant AstraZeneca is doing "everything expected" which means good news in the fight against the deadly... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The risk of COVID-19 spreading on flights appears "very low" but cannot be ruled out, despite studies showing only a small number of cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Fox News Breaking News Alert Watch Live: Senate Judiciary Committee meets to vote on Barrett Supreme Court nomination, as Dems plan boycott 10/22/20 6:01 AM
Russia has granted US whistleblower Edward Snowden permanent residency rights, the TASS news agency cited Snowden's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena as saying on Thursday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Sri Lanka has appealed against a judgement from Britain's Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission, which has delisted the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a proscribed terrorist... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
President Donald Trump squares off against Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Thursday in what promises to be a bruising final debate with less than two weeks left in their turbulent fight for the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Lebanon's President Michel Aoun designated Sunni Muslim politician Saad al-Hariri as prime minister on Thursday to form a new government to tackle the worst crisis since the country's 1975-1990 civil... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The Kremlin on Thursday dismissed as "absolutely groundless" claims that Moscow had obtained US voter information and taken actions to influence public opinion ahead of the November 3 election. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Brazilian health authority Anvisa said on Wednesday that a volunteer in a clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University had died but added that the trial would... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The State Department has proposed not to issue temporary business visas for H-1B speciality occupations which allowed companies to send their technology professionals for a short stay to complete jobs... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A masked gunman wearing a military uniform has released all but three of 19 hostages taken in a raid on a branch of the commercial Bank of Georgia on Wednesday, private TV channel Mtavari reported. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The US deserves to have a president who understands the dignity of people and guides the country in a way that Americans can regain their standing and get closer to those ideals they hold, Democratic... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts touched down on steppe land in Kazakhstan Thursday, completing a 196-day mission that began with the first launch under lockdown conditions. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Former Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said the "excesses" of social media are likely to result in greater regulation of internet platforms in the coming years. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A participant who died during a trial of AstraZeneca Plc's Covid-19 vaccine in Brazil hadn't received the company's shot, according to a person familiar with the matter. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Barack Obama on Wednesday called on Joe Biden supporters not to be "complacent" despite favourable opinion polls ahead of the November election and attacked President Donald Trump in a rally speech. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Two teenagers accused of pointing out French teacher Samuel Paty to his killer who beheaded him were on Wednesday charged with complicity in terrorist murder, prosecutors said, as the nation paid... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Video snippet sharing sensation TikTok on Wednesday said it is cracking down on hateful content, banning anti-Semitic stereotypes and white nationalism posts. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Fox News Breaking News Alert Laptop connected to Hunter Biden linked to FBI money laundering probe, according to documents obtained by Fox News, sources 10/21/20 6:13 PM
Pope Francis defended the right of gay couples to enter into legally recognised civil unions in a documentary that premiered at the Rome Film Festival on Wednesday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Britain's defence minister said on Wednesday that China was seeking to build the world's biggest surface and subsurface maritime fleet. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Pupils at a school near Paris had pointed out the history teacher beheaded last week to his killer in return for 300 to 350 euros ($356- $414), France's anti-terror prosecutor said Wednesday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Air pollution killed 476,000 newborns in 2019, with the biggest hotspots in India and Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new global study which said that nearly two-thirds of the deaths came from... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Pakistan's top body, which oversees response to the coronavirus pandemic, on Wednesday warned that strict measures, including lockdown, could be initiated to contain the infection if people don't stop... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Pakistan's top body, which oversees response to the coronavirus pandemic, on Wednesday warned that strict measures, including lockdown, could be initiated to contain the infection if people don't stop... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday that his government will not buy China's Sinovac vaccine against COVID-19, one day after the health minister said it would be included in the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Wednesday he had asked local authorities to put mosques in the cities of Bordeaux and Beziers in southwestern France under police protection following... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
President Donald Trump campaigned in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, telling supporters he needed a second term in the White House to ensure a successful recovery from the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
At least 11 women were killed Wednesday in a stampede at an Afghan football stadium where thousands of people had gathered to apply for Pakistani visas, authorities said. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Britain is looking to force the body responsible for running London to sell off land and cut running costs as part of a fractious financial COVID-19 bailout designed to keep the capital's transport... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
At least 25 Afghan security force personnel were killed in an ambush blamed on the Taliban in the northeast of the country, officials said Wednesday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A high-profile kidnapping of a police chief in Pakistan -- allegedly by official paramilitary troops -- has signaled deepening of the political turmoil in a country bracing for further opposition... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Britain's Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, spoke on Tuesday about their campaign against social media negativity, with Harry warning of a "global crisis of hate" that was affecting people's mental... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
At least three people were killed and 15 others suffered injures in an explosion near Maskan Chowrangi in Karachi's Gulshan-i-Iqbal area on Wednesday, according to officials from the Edhi Foundation. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
If Donald Trump is forced from the White House in the November election, he won't be the only loser. Though many governments would likely celebrate the end of the most unconventional and at times... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
At least 15 Afghans were killed and more than a dozen injured in a stampede that occurred in an open ground where thousands of Afghans had gathered on Tuesday to secure visas from the Pakistan... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A city in China's Zhejiang province will offer experimental coronavirus vaccines to its residents, as China broadens an emergency use programme to people in non-priority groups. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris turned 56 on Tuesday, with the party's presidential nominee Joe Biden greeting her on the big day, saying they would celebrate her next birthday at... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The US sued Google on Tuesday, accusing the $1 trillion company of illegally using its market muscle to hobble rivals in the biggest challenge to the power and influence of Big Tech in decades. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A 41-year veteran of the Houston police force died on Tuesday after being shot multiple times in the head while another officer who was also shot during the same incident was being treated in the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday told employees whose work can be done from home that they can do so until June, extending the timeline on a return to office due to the COVID-19 pandemic. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
China said on Tuesday that it had lodged a diplomatic protest with the US over the appointment of Robert Destro as a Special Coordinator for Tibetan issues and his meeting with Lobsang Sangay, the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The Kremlin on Tuesday denied US claims that Russian military intelligence was behind cyber attacks targeting Ukraine's power grid, the 2017 French election and the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
London's Heathrow airport on Tuesday began to roll out paid-for rapid coronavirus testing, with results in one hour, as it seeks to boost demand decimated by the deadly pandemic. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
China today said it has "taken note" of India's announcement that Australia will join the annual Malabar naval exercises along with the US and Japan, underlining that military cooperation should be... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
French authorities said Tuesday they would close a Paris mosque in a clampdown on radical Islam that has yielded over a dozen arrests following the beheading of a teacher who had shown his pupils... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Russia said on Tuesday it was ready to offer the United States a mutual one-year freeze on the number of nuclear warheads held by both countries in order to extend a landmark arms reduction deal due... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The International Space Station (ISS) is now working normally with no danger to its occupants after the crew managed to resolve a series of technical issues overnight, Russia's space agency said... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief and Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif was sent to jail on Tuesday in a money laundering case. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Sri Lanka and the Maldives this month, officials of both Indian Ocean nations said on Tuesday, as Washington seeks to counter China's growing influence... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
British researchers on Tuesday said they hope to expose healthy volunteers to the virus that causes Covid-19 in a groundbreaking study to discover the amount needed for people to become infected. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump has predicted that the American economy will soon recover from the coronavirus-induced economic slowdown and that the next year will be the greatest economic year in the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Australia will participate in the Malabar naval exercise next month involving India, the US and Japan that will bring the four key defence partners and democracies in the region together,... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Donald Trump has frustrated and enraged China during a tumultuous first term, but Beijing may welcome his re-election as it scans the horizon for the decline of its superpower rival. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
President Donald Trump called coronavirus expert Anthony Fauci a "disaster" on Monday, airing his frustration with the scientist during a call meant to reassure campaign staff he has a path to victory... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The UNICEF said it will stockpile 520 million syringes in its warehouses, as part of a larger plan of one billion hypodermic needles by 2021, to guarantee initial supply and help ensure that syringes... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The US Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and several other organisations have filed a lawsuit against the federal government, asserting that recent H-1B regulations... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Seventeen individuals and organisations, including universities and businesses, have filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Labor challenging its recent Interim Final Rule on wages related to... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Thursday's debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will feature a mute button to allow each candidate to speak uninterrupted, organizers said on Monday, in a bid to... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A major 7.5-magnitude quake off the coast of Alaska triggered small tsunami waves Monday, US agencies said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Fox News Breaking News Alert SCOTUS leaves in place ruling that extends mail-in ballot deadline in Pennsylvania three days after election 10/19/20 4:32 PM
Six members of Russian military intelligence agency the GRU have been charged in the United States with carrying out global cyberattacks, including an attempt to disrupt the 2017 French elections, the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Iran on Monday said it is more inclined to sell weapons rather than buy them, after it announced the end of a longstanding UN conventional arms embargo. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The United Nations said Monday it would stockpile one billion syringes around the world by the end of 2021, to be used for the delivery of any future coronavirus vaccine. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
China on Monday accused the United States of "peddling arms" and "interfering" in other countries' affairs after Washington threatened sanctions against any nation taking advantage of the end of a UN... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
China denied on Monday that foreign nationals are under threat of arbitrary detention, following a newspaper report that Beijing had warned Washington it might arrest Americans in China. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Britain's Oxford University said on Monday initial findings from a study on the long term impact of COVID-19 has found that a large number of patients discharged from hospitals still experience... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide passed 40 million on Monday, according to an AFP tally at 0715 GMT based on official sources. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
French police on Monday raided the homes of dozens of suspected Islamist terrorists three days after the beheading of a teacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the interior... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The first ever passenger flight from the United Arab Emirates to Israel landed near Tel Aviv on Monday, a month after the countries signed an agreement normalising ties. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Prime Minister Imran Khan is "incapable and clueless", and his government is worse than a dictatorship, Pakistan's opposition leaders have said at the second rally of an alliance formed to oust the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The father of a schoolgirl and a known Islamist terrorist had urged the killing of a French teacher who was beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, France's interior minister... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Police has "arrested" Safdar Awan, the husband of Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, from the hotel they were staying in Karachi, hours after the PML-N vice-president lashed out... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump have an "incredible" relationship, said the US President's son Donald Trump Jr, adding that the two leaders understand that India and America... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
British billionaire James Dyson, the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, and his wife are selling their three-storey Singapore penthouse about a year after buying it for a reported S$74 million... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
China is closing in on the US as the most powerful country influencing the Asia-Pacific, as America's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic tarnishes its reputation, a study showed. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is not good for India as he could be soft on China, US President Donald Trump's son said at an event to celebrate the ''success'' of his book that talks... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Twitter on Sunday removed a "misleading" tweet downplaying the efficacy of masks posted by a top coronavirus adviser to President Donald Trump, while U.S. cases surged before the November3 election. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden were courting early voters on Sunday in the competitive states of Nevada and North Carolina, as the final presidential debate looms later... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Tens of thousands of opposition supporters rallied on Sunday in the city of Karachi as part of a campaign to oust Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan, who they accuse of being installed by the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Days after joining the World Health Organisation's (WHO) COVAX alliance to equitably distribute COVID-19 vaccines across the world, China has stepped up the usage of its coronavirus vaccines to three... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Thousands of people rallied in central Paris Sunday in a defiant show of solidarity with a teacher beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A Saudi artist has created the world's "largest coffee painting", becoming the first woman from the country to achieve a record title single-handedly, the Guinness World Records announced Sunday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday said that arms sales to Iran would breach UN resolutions and result in sanctions, after Tehran said the longstanding UN embargo on arms trade with the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
One of the UK's senior-most medical chiefs has indicated that a vaccine against COVID-19 could be ready to be deployed by the start of the New Year, according to a media report on Sunday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Thousands of anti-government protesters took over key intersections in Bangkok on Sunday, defying a ban on protests for the fourth day with chants of "down with dictatorship" and "reform the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Thousands marched to the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Saturday to commemorate the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and protest President Donald Trump's rush to push through Amy Coney Barrett as... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
China's health authority has confirmed the detection and isolation of living novel coronavirus on the outer packaging of imported frozen marine fish in the port city of Qingdao. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A car bomb Sunday targeting an Afghan police headquarters in the western province of Ghor killed at least 12 civilians and wounded more than 100, officials said. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated Jacinda Ardern for getting re-elected as the Prime Minister of New Zealand and said that he is looking forward to working on elevating the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Five soldiers are dead and a frantic search is under way for 17 others after a huge landslide hit central Vietnam on Sunday, as the country battles its worst flooding in years. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
President Donald Trump fought Friday to recover from sinking election polls by campaigning with a hardline pitch to America's right wing, claiming at rallies in Florida and Georgia that his Democratic... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
After a thumping election win, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Sunday that she would form a government within three weeks but declined to say whether she would rule alone or form a... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
China has passed a new law restricting sensitive exports to protect national security, a move that adds to policy tools it could wield against the US as tensions -- especially in technology --... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
During an election rally of US President Donald Trump on Saturday in Macon City in Georgia, a battleground state, Senator David Perdue mispronounced 55-year-old Kamala Harris' name. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The coronavirus remains active on human skin for nine hours, Japanese researchers have found, in a discovery they said showed the need for frequent hand washing to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Singapore will become the world's first country to use facial verification in its national ID scheme, but privacy advocates are alarmed by what they say is an intrusive system vulnerable to abuse. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The Chinese government has warned Washington it may detain Americans in China in response to the Justice Department's prosecution of Chinese military-affiliated scholars, the Wall Street Journal... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A total of 2.2 million ads on Facebook and Instagram have been rejected and 120,000 posts withdrawn for attempting to "obstruct voting" in the upcoming US presidential election, Facebook's vice... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump's company has been given permission by Scottish authorities to build a second golf course in northeast Scotland despite local objections. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will announce on Sunday another set of measures to counter the new wave of COVID-19 cases, his office said, after the country registered a new daily record in... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris on Saturday extended greetings to Hindu community in the US on Navratri and wished for victory of good over evil once... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Well-liked and committed teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded by a teenager in a Paris suburb on Friday, enjoyed getting his students to debate issues such as freedom of speech. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday lashed out at three-time former premier Nawaz Sharif for accusing the army chief of rigging elections and installing a "puppet government" in Islamabad. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
French police have arrested nine people over the beheading of a teacher near his school in a Paris suburb, a judicial source said on Saturday, in what President Emmanuel Macron labelled an Islamist... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A fresh-faced Jacinda Ardern entered office three years ago promising "relentless positivity" -- and New Zealand's leader has needed it in abundance as a succession of catastrophes besieged the nation... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Scientists have laid out an approach to block a protein that the novel coronavirus uses to cut and disable crucial components of the immune system and to produce copies of itself, an advance that may... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a landslide victory in New Zealand's general election Saturday, leveraging success battling Covid-19 to gain an unprecedented outright majority and the chance to... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The man suspected of beheading a French teacher who had shown his students cartoons of the prophet Mohammed was an 18-year-old born in Moscow and originating from Russia's southern region of Chechnya,... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A 70-year-old man, born in Punjab and based in Ireland for over 40 years, has applied for a Guinness World Record after completing what he calls his Earth Walk covering over 40,075 kilometres or the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The U.S. national security adviser said on Friday that China was perpetrating "something close to" a genocide with its treatment of Muslims in its Xinjiang region. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday accused the country's army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa of toppling his government, pressuring the judiciary, and installing the current... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Fox News Breaking News Alert Biden lashes out at CBS reporter when asked about NY Post report: 'I have no response, another smear campaign' 10/16/20 7:04 PM
Chinese coastal city Qingdao on Friday completed testing of all its 11 million residents after a new COVID-19 cluster was detected at a hospital due to improper disinfection, a senior local official... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A history teacher who had shown caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in class was on Friday decapitated and his assailant shot dead by French police as they tried to arrest him, police and prosecutors... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Two American companies expect to apply for emergency approval for their Covid-19 vaccines by late November, welcome news as the US hits a third surge of its coronavirus epidemic and approaches its... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Fox News Breaking News Alert RNC files FEC complaint against Twitter, claims company made 'illegal in-kind contribution' to Biden camp 10/16/20 10:10 AM
Twitter Inc CEO Jack Dorsey said on Friday his company had been wrong to block links to an article making claims about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's son. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The total number of declared deaths from the new coronavirus has topped 1.1 million around the world, according to an AFP tally from official sources at 1500 GMT Friday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Pfizer Inc said on Friday it may file for authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with German partner BioNTech in late November, making it unlikely a vaccine will be available before US... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
"Human challenge" trials of potential COVID-19 vaccines, where volunteers are deliberately infected with the disease, could become a reality after a British biotech firm said it was in advanced talks... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
"Human challenge" trials of potential COVID-19 vaccines, where volunteers are deliberately infected with the disease, could become a reality after a British biotech firm said it was in advanced talks... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A World Health Organization (WHO) trial that concluded Gilead Sciences Inc.'s remdesivir did not significantly help COVID-19 patients is reliable, a scientist who evaluated the data said on Friday, as... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US cases of the novel coronavirus crossed 8 million on Thursday, rising by 1 million in less than a month, as another surge in cases hits the nation at the onset of cooler weather. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A gun and rocket attack targeting a Pakistani paramilitary escort on Thursday killed seven soldiers and seven private security guards in southwestern Pakistan, officials said. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
In "an unprecedented coordinated effort", India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the US Department of Justice took simultaneous actions against a technical support fraud scheme, which was... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Writer and former first lady of the US Michelle Obama has launched a new online challenge #VotingSquad aimed at urging more people to vote in the forthcoming US presidential elections. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The number of people who have tested positive for coronavirus in France over the past 24 hours has exceeded 30,000 for the first time, official data showed on Thursday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump on Thursday (local time) said that the lockdowns imposed by various states across the country to curb the coronavirus cases were "unconstitutional". https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Thursday said it had charged a man in connection with the death of Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala in a light aircraft crash last year. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Gilead Sciences Inc's remdesivir had little or no effect on COVID-19 patients' length of hospital stay or chances of survival, a clinical trial by the World Health Organization (WHO) has found. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump gave a combative, at times agitated defense of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic Thursday while his election challenger Joe Biden, appearing in a simultaneous... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Twitter service appeared to be restored Thursday evening after a technical problem caused a global outage of nearly two hours on the social media platform used by hundreds of millions worldwide. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The soaring number of Covid-19 cases in Europe is of "great concern", but the situation is still better than the peaks in April, the World Health Organization's regional office said Thursday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
British spies are trying to defend COVID-19 vaccine work against hostile powers that seek to either steal or sabotage research data in the race for the global prize of a jab that could provide... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
British spies are trying to defend COVID-19 vaccine work against hostile powers that seek to either steal or sabotage research data in the race for the global prize of a jab that could provide... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A five-year-old girl with a rare neurodegenerative disease died in the US while taking part in a gene therapy trial run by French biotechnology company Lysogene, the firm said Thursday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Facing the twin task of fighting the coronavirus pandemic today and building a better tomorrow, the world is experiencing a new Bretton Woods moment, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
As the countries continue to register news cases of coronavirus every day, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has urged the leaders to maintain peace and focus... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Chinese President Xi Jinping has asked his troops to "prepare for war" state news agency Xinhua reported today. "Troops should "maintain a state of high alert... Put all (your) minds and energy into... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
New Zealand's prime ministerial hopefuls clashed on Thursday in their last debate before a general election that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said if she does not win, she will resign from the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Scientists from Britain's University of Oxford have developed a rapid COVID-19 test able to identify the coronavirus in less than five minutes, researchers said on Thursday, adding it could be used in... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Some nine million people in the British capital are facing more stringent coronavirus restrictions due to a rising number of cases, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said on Thursday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris has said that the Trump administration has been the "greatest failure" of any presidential administration in the US history as she condemned... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Democrat Joe Biden and his party raised a record-shattering $383 million in September for his presidential bid, likely bolstering his financial advantage over President Donald Trump ahead of the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Former US defence secretary Jim Mattis refused to endorse his former boss Donald Trump on Thursday, urging voters to look for leaders who show "competence and compassion". https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Facebook shut down the page of conspiracy-embracing political party Advance New Zealand on Thursday just two days out from a general election, accusing it of spreading misinformation about the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A US warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait in what the American military described as a "routine" passage Wednesday, but enraging China, which claims sovereignty over the island and surrounding... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The medical industry's dash to produce the world's first coronavirus vaccines in just a few months is heightening the urgency for the workhorses of global trade to be ready for the historic charge to... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Terming the COVID-19 outbreak as a ''horrible situation'', President Donald Trump on Wednesday (local time) hit out at China for allowing COVID-19 to spread outside Beijing while preventing the spread... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Wednesday said North Korea's nuclear and missile programs pose a global threat, after Pyongyang's unveiling of previously unseen intercontinental ballistic missiles... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Fox News Breaking News Alert Twitter's Jack Dorsey says company botched blocking NYP article on alleged emails on Hunter Biden's laptop 10/14/20 5:23 PM
US President Donald Trump rebuked Facebook and Twitter Wednesday for blocking links to a New York Post article purporting to expose corrupt dealings by election rival Joe Biden and his son in Ukraine. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Immunity against COVID-19 may persist for at least five months after being infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to a study led by an Indian-origin researcher in the US. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut blasted off to the International Space Station Wednesday aboard a Russian capsule, in the first such launch since SpaceX's game-changing debut manned flight from US... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un promised to help typhoon-hit areas recover and to build at least 25,000 houses over the next five years, state media said on Wednesday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
There were no masks on display as about 1,000 university students gave Jacinda Ardern a rock-star reception during her final Wellington campaign rally this week -- and the New Zealand prime minister... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett insisted Tuesday that she had no fixed views on hot-button legal issues as Democrats painted her as President Donald Trump's vehicle to end abortion rights... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been "erratic" just like his presidency, his Democratic challenger Joe Biden has said, terming the US President's leadership as "chaotic and... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Tarmac meals have become an unlikely hit for coronavirus-battered Singapore Airlines, with hundreds of "passengers" paying the equivalent of a budget ticket just to dine inside grounded A380 jumbos. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Alex Greer says he'd rather put himself directly in the path of the coronavirus than get blindsided by the disease after an evening at the pub or with friends. It's a scenario that could soon become a... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
As a kid, Kareem Daniel used to spend hours at the comic-book store at his local mall poring over the titles, sometimes with his mom waiting patiently in the car. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
More than three million swabs have been taken in a matter of days in Qingdao, the Chinese port city where a minor coronavirus outbreak elicited a sweeping health response. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Covid-19 patients may experience more severe symptoms the second time they are infected, according to research released Tuesday confirming it is possible to catch the potentially deadly disease more... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
China rushed Tuesday to test an entire city of nine million within days after a minor coronavirus outbreak, as the WHO warned that letting the pathogen run free to achieve herd immunity was... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US economist Paul Milgrom was informed that he won the Nobel Economics Prize with a knock on his door, at 2:15 am. When Nobel Prize committee could not reach him, Robert Wilson, who shared the top... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Peru's best-known tourist site Machu Picchu has opened after months of coronavirus closure, but for just a single visitor -- a Japanese man stranded in the country by the pandemic. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday laid out the details of a new graded three-tier system of COVID-19 alert levels, which will categorise the localised lockdowns across England into... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Pakistani Muslim League (Nawaz) [PML(N)] vice president Maryam Nawaz on Monday said that the Prime Minister Imran Khan Government "would go home" before January days before the opposition holds its... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump on Monday said that the recent remarks by a World Health Organization envoy proved that he "was right" about not imposing Covid-19 lockdowns and said that the global health... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Deprived of his beloved campaign trail for 10 days by Covid-19, President Donald Trump took center stage again Monday in Florida, vowing that he is in "great shape" with 22 days to go until he faces... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Johnson & Johnson said Monday it had temporarily halted its Covid-19 vaccine trial because one of its participants had become sick. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Human trials of Russia's COVID-19 vaccine, named Sputnik V, will be held in the United Arab Emirates, the second country after Belarus to take part in the programme of which results are expected... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Bangladesh introduced the death penalty for rape on Monday after days of protests sparked by a string of sexual assaults, the government said. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Climate change is largely to blame for a near doubling of natural disasters in the past 20 years, the United Nations said on Monday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for work on commercial auctions, including for goods and services difficult to sell in traditional ways such as... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Noting that Pakistan's measures against money laundering and terror financing "is not yet sufficient to justify a re-rating", a regional affiliate of the Financial Action Task Force on Monday retained... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
China aims to test more than nine million residents of the port city of Qingdao within five days following a minor outbreak of the coronavirus, health officials said Monday, the first mass testing in... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Polish military divers are due to begin a delicate operation on Monday to defuse a massive World War II bomb at the bottom of a channel near the Baltic Sea. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The Covid-19 vaccines closest to the finish line are designed to be injected into the arm. Researchers are looking at whether they can get better protection from inoculations that fight the virus at... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The new coronavirus may remain infectious for weeks on banknotes, glass and other common surfaces, according to research by Australia's top biosecurity laboratory that highlights risks from paper... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Triller Inc, a budding competitor to popular short-video app TikTok, is in discussions with blank-check acquisition companies about a merger which would take the U.S. social media company public,... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 can survive on items such as banknotes and phones for up to 28 days in cool, dark conditions, according to a study by Australia's national science agency. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Researchers on the world's biggest mission to the North Pole will return to dock on Monday, bringing home devastating proof of a dying Arctic Ocean and warnings of ice-free summers in just decades. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
An influential Pakistani Sunni Muslim cleric was shot dead along with his driver by unidentified attackers in Karachi city, according to media reports. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
China's foreign minister Wang Yi has called for a new forum to defuse tensions in the Middle East after a meeting with his Iranian counterpart where he reiterated Beijing's support for Tehran. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Distressed that professionals from India on H-1B visas have to wait for decades to get their Green Card, Indian-origin lawmakers have expressed hope that a Biden administration would come to their... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Mexico's government announced on Saturday that it paid the World Health Organization $159.88 million to secure access to COVID-19 vaccines through the agency's COVAX plan as countries across the globe... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump has alleged that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in his previous capacities as Senator and vice president was busy shipping jobs to China, prompting the latter to... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Taiwan's leader on Saturday appealed to her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to deescalate military tensions and live up to his promise to "never seek hegemony" after months of Beijing ramping up... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
President Donald Trump is no longer contagious, nine days after being stopped in his tracks by Covid-19, his physician said in a statement released late Saturday. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Armenian and Azerbaijani forces accused each other of bombing civilian areas on Saturday morning ahead of a ceasefire agreed to end nearly two weeks of heavy fighting over the disputed... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Twitter Inc said on Friday it will remove tweets calling for people to interfere with the US election process or implementation of election results, including through violence, as the company also... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Nuclear-armed North Korea appears to have held a giant military parade early Saturday, Seoul said, with Pyongyang's latest and most advanced weapons expected to have been on show in the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump's campaign criticised the Commission on Presidential Debates for announcing the scheduled October 15 debate between Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden would not take... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a ceasefire from noon Saturday and to begin "substantive talks" over Nagorno-Karabakh, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after marathon negotiations in... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, facing open criticism from President Donald Trump, promised Friday he would release emails by Hillary Clinton avidly sought by conservative activists before November... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Hurricane Delta made landfall on the US Gulf Coast Friday evening, the National Hurricane Center said, roaring ashore as a Category 2 storm with winds of 100 miles per hour (155 kilometers per hour). https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
The Nobel Peace Prize was Friday awarded to the World Food Programme for feeding millions of people from Yemen to North Korea, with the coronavirus pandemic seen pushing millions more into hunger. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to their first talks on ending the fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia said Friday, as fierce clashes over the disputed region showed no signs of abating. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
A hotel in Thailand agreed on Friday to drop charges against an American guest who faces up to five years in jail for posting negative reviews as long as he issues a public apology for his comments. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
North Koreans wearing medical masks have gathered in the capital of Pyongyang, state media reported this week, ahead of what is expected to be a big military parade on Saturday, possibly featuring the... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co said on Friday an alliance of drugmakers it spearheads has enrolled its first patient in a global clinical trial of a blood plasma treatment for COVID-19 after months... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
China's foreign ministry said on Friday the country has formally joined the global COVID-19 vaccine initiative known as COVAX, becoming the biggest economy to date to pledge support to help finance... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, one of President Donald Trump's most powerful allies in Washington, has avoided visiting the White House for more than two months because of its handling of... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
Elliott Broidy, a former fundraiser for US President Donald Trump, was charged with illegally lobbying him to drop an investigation involving a massive Malaysian embezzlement scandal, according to... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
President Donald Trump, still recovering from COVID-19, said in a Fox News interview late Thursday that he wants to hold a campaign rally as early as Saturday, likely in Florida. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump should be able to resume "public engagements" from Saturday, the White House physician announced Thursday, saying the US leader has responded "extremely well" to Covid-19... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
US President Donald Trump on Thursday (local time) slammed Democratic rival Joe Biden stating that he had no plan in handling the coronavirus situation and criticized the former vice president for how... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
If Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden wins the November 3 US Elections, his running mate Kamala Harris will takeover as president in a month's time, President Donald Trump said on Thursday in a... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J