Pilgrims were quarantined on Tuesday in the holy city of Makkah ahead of the dramatically downsized Hajj as Saudi authorities strive to prevent a coro...
Former Malaysian leader Najib Razak was found guilty Tuesday of corruption over the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB scandal that cost him his government, an...
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way of life for people across the globe. While things like social distancing, frequent sanitisation and face ...
Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will give much-anticipated testimony this week over his role in awarding a government contract to a cha...
Wellington: New Zealand on Tuesday announced that it will follow the lead of its intelligence allies by suspending its extradition treaty with Hong Ko...
Kuala Lumpur: A Malaysian court pronounced former Prime Minister Najib Razak guilty in his first corruption trial over the multibillion-dollar looting...
Bangladesh received 10 broad-gauge locomotives from India on Monday. In an online handing over ceremony, the locomotives were flagged off from Gede st...
US President Donald Trump's National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien has tested positive for coronavirus, but the White House said his infection poses...
The first container train carrying FMCG products and other items arrived at the Benapole railways station of Bangladesh yesterday. It had started from...
Kanye West boasted over the weekend that he could defeat former Vice President Joe Biden in this year’s presidential election, while hinting that he m...
It took Zimbabwe five months to reach 1,000 Covid-19 cases but within a week the country is approaching 3,000.As of Saturday, there were 2,434 confirm...
Iran reported 216 new deaths from the novel coronavirus on Sunday, calling on its citizens to observe health protocols more closely to ease the burden...
Rioters in Seattle on Saturday set fire to a construction site for a King County juvenile detention facility and courthouse. They later hurled explosi...
A Rohingya migrant is said to be the only survivor from a boat carrying at least two dozen asylum seekers that is believed to have run into difficulty...
Hurricane Hanna battered the south Texas coast with blistering winds and crashing waves into the early hours of Sunday, leaving a large area already b...
Australia has suffered its deadliest day from the coronavirus since the pandemic began, with authorities reporting ten fatalities Sunday and a rise in...
British tourists reacted with dismay on Sunday at their government’s abrupt decision to impose a two-week coronavirus quarantine on travellers returni...
North Korean authorities have imposed a lockdown on the border city of Kaesong after discovering the country’s first suspected case of the novel coron...
One person was killed when several shots were fired amid a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Austin, Texas, on Saturday, authorities said.Footage...
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has begun a well-publicised live-fire drill with “powerful ammunition” in the southern Guangdong province’s Lei...
The school attended by President Donald Trump’s son will not fully reopen in September out of concern over the coronavirus pandemic despite the presid...
United Nations: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment of Pamela Coke-Hamilton of Jamaica as executive director o...
San Francisco: Microsoft has released a new update that finally allows users to join Cisco Webex meetings from the Rooms feature in its popular video ...
Geneva: Protesters and journalists in US cities, including Portland in Oregon, must be able to take part in peaceful demonstrations without risking ar...
In a significant development, the Trump administration has relaxed standards for exporting drones to friendly countries. Under the new policy, drones ...
The diplomatic row between US and China has escalated. China has ordered the closure of US consulate in Chengdu in Sichuan province.The move is being ...
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan joined thousands of worshippers at Hagia Sophia on Friday for the first prayers there since he declared the monument...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took fresh aim at China on Thursday and said Washington and its allies must use "more creative and assertive ways" t...
Istanbul: Turkish police detained eight foreign nationals in Istanbul over suspected links to the Islamic State (IS).Police launched operations simult...
San Francisco: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has sued Google and its subsidiary YouTube over a Bitcoin scam, alleging that the tech giant failed to t...
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