Washington, August 1 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has said that he will ban the popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok from operating in the country through an executive order as early as Saturday, accordin
Washington, August 1 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that his administration is working on what he called "a big immigration bill".
Speaking to reporters on Friday at the White House before a
HONG KONG, July 31 (Reuters): Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Friday postponed a Sept. 6 election to the Chinese-ruled city's legislature by a year because of a rise in coronavirus cases, dealing a blow
BOGOTA, July 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): There has been no word of the five Black Honduran indigenous men who two weeks ago were abducted at gunpoint from their homes in a coastal fishing village and
MADRID, July 31 (Reuters): The coronavirus crisis has pulverised Spain's economy, triggering its worst recession since the civil war, with collapsed tourism numbers boding ill for hopes of a swift rebo
WASHINGTON, July 31 (Reuters): The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on a Chinese company and two officials related to the company for what it said were human rights abuses against Uighurs and othe
JOHANNESBURG, July 31 (Reuters): When coronavirus patients started arriving at South Africa's government-run Thelle Mogoerane Hospital, workers scrambled to set up isolation wards to treat them.
The
JAKARTA/KOLKATA, July 31 (Reuters): Muslims across Asia, taking precautions against the novel coronavirus such as wearing face masks and temperature checks, performed prayers on Friday to mark the festival
HONG KONG, July 31 (Reuters): Hong Kong district councillor Tiffany Yuen's election bid may be over, cut short by the authorities, but the message behind her campaign poster still stands, she said in a
TAIPEI, July 31 (Reuters): The Taiwanese government on Friday said it will hold a state funeral for former President Lee Teng-hui, a figure respected on the island for ending autocratic rule but branded by
MOSCOW, July 31 (Reuters): At least nine people were killed after a minibus crashed in Crimea in the early hours of Friday, authorities in the Russian-annexed peninsula said.
The driver of the microbus,
HONG KONG, July 31 (Reuters): For 23 years Hong Kong was an anomaly.
A free and partially democratic city under Chinese rule, protected by a tradition of firm rule of law from the British colonial era,
BRASILIA, July 31 (Reuters): Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday he was taking antibiotics for an infection that left him feeling weak, chuckling in an online video about "mold" i
PALERMO, Italy, July 31 (Reuters): At 96, Giuseppe Paterno has faced many tests in life - childhood poverty, war and, more recently, the coronavirus pandemic. Now he has sailed through an exam that makes h
KYIV, July 31 (Reuters): Ukraine said on Friday that its first round of talks with Iran about the downing of a Ukrainian airliner shortly after takeoff in Tehran in January had been constructive, and that
SEOUL, July 31 (Reuters): Worried South Koreans are putting banknotes in their microwaves and washing machines, damaging the bills in their attempts to cleanse them of the coronavirus.
The central bank
DUBAI, July 31 (Reuters): Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ruled out negotiations with the United States over Tehran's ballistic missile and nuclear programmes on Friday and urged Ira
Ottawa, July 31 (IANS): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that despite his family's ties with a charity, he did not place himself in a conflict of interest through his involvement in cabinet discu
Manila, July 31 (IANS): Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday once again told the people of his country to disinfect their face masks with petrol, while insisting that he was "not joking&quo
Washington, July 31 (IANS): Former US President Barack Obama has sharply criticised what he described as Republican attempts at voter suppression, saying that people in power were "attacking our voting rig