MOSCOW, July 26 (Reuters): Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday the Russian Navy would be armed with hypersonic nuclear strike weapons and underwater nuclear drones, which the defence ministry s
MADRID/LONDON, July 26 (Reuters): Spain is safe for tourists and Spaniards, the government insisted on Sunday after Britain abruptly imposed a two-week coronavirus quarantine on travellers returning from t
WARSAW, July 26 (Reuters): Poland's conservative ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) distanced itself on Sunday from a proposal by the justice minister to withdraw from a European treaty on violence aga
WARSAW, July 26 (Reuters): Poland will take steps next week to withdraw from a European treaty on violence against women, which the right-wing cabinet says violates parents' rights by requiring schools
KUALA LUMPUR, July 26 (Reuters): Malaysian authorities launched a search on Sunday for 24 Rohingya refugees who went missing while trying to swim to shore from a boat off the resort island of Langkawi.
KUALA LUMPUR, July 26 (Reuters): Malaysian former prime minister Najib Razak, fighting dozens of charges over a multi-billion-dollar graft scandal at state fund 1MDB, faces his first verdict on Tuesday in
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Hurricane Hanna battered the south Texas coast with blistering winds and crashing waves into the early hours of Sunday, leaving a large area already badly hit by COVID-19 bracing for torrential downp
London, July 25 (IANS): The UK's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have denied contributing to a new book about their life in the Royal Family, it was reported on Saturday.
Authors Omid Scobie and
London, July 25 (IANS): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has admitted that his government did not understand coronavirus during the "first few weeks and months" of the outbreak in the country, adding t
Washington, July 25 (IANS): US President Donald Trump has signed four executive orders aimed at cutting prescription drug prices, which would allow discounts and import of cheaper drugs from abroad.
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London, July 25 (IANS) Boris Johnson has admitted the government did not understand coronavirus during the "first few weeks and months" of the UK outbreak.
In an interview with the BBC, PM said the
Washington, July 25 (IANS) The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 15.6 million, while the deaths have increased to over 638,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
As of Saturday mor
ISLAMABAD, July 24 (Reuters): A 103-year-old man has recovered from COVID-19 in Pakistan to become one of the oldest survivors of the disease in the world, beating the odds in a country with a weak healthc
NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters): More than 40 countries accused North Korea on Friday of illicitly breaching a United Nations cap on refined petroleum imports and called for an immediate halt to deliveries unt
Chicago, July 24 (Reuters): Chicago temporarily removed two statues of Christopher Columbus on Friday and announced it would reassess the appropriateness of all its monuments, a week after protesters had tried
ATHENS, July 24 (Reuters): Church bells across Greece tolled in mourning on Friday as the first Islamic prayers in nine decades were held at Hagia Sophia in Turkey, marking the monument's conversion in
BRASILIA, July 24 (Reuters): Brazil's lower house speaker, Rodrigo Maia, said on Friday that now was not the time to handle an impeachment process against President Jair Bolsonaro, adding he would only
SEOUL, July 24 (Reuters): South Korea will add 4,000 medical students over the next 10 years to swell the number of its doctors and strengthen the response to future public health crises, government and ru
HELENSBURGH, Scotland, July 24 (Reuters): James Henderson has spent most of his life fiercely opposed to Scottish independence. Now, reluctantly he is backing it.
The 71-year-old former marine engineer
WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters): U.S. 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" to press the