GENEVA, June 9 (Reuters): A United Nations human rights expert voiced alarm on Tuesday at "widespread food shortages and malnutrition" in North Korea, made worse by a nearly five-month border clo
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LONDON, June 9 (Reuters): Disease experts on Tuesday questioned a statement by the World Health Organization that transmission of COVID-19 by people with no symptoms is "very rare", saying this g
Los Angeles, June 9 (Reuters): As opioid pills and patches fueled a two-decade epidemic of overdoses in the United States, hospitals faced chronic shortages of the same painkillers in injectable form - narcotic
MANILA, June 9 (Reuters): With schools in the Philippines only due to reopen when a vaccine for COVID-19 has been found, educational authorities are racing to devise a distance learning regime for 27 milli
PHNOM PENH/BANGKOK, June 9 (Reuters): Cambodia will investigate the suspected kidnapping of an exiled Thai activist in Phnom Penh, a police spokesman told Reuters on Tuesday, five days after unknown gunmen
KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 (Reuters): Malaysia will ask Bangladesh to take back about 300 Rohingya refugees detained after a boat carrying them entered its waters this week, the southeast Asian nation's defe
TOKYO, June 9 (Reuters): Mira Robotics developed its "ugo" robot to reinforce greying Japan's shrinking workforce, but as the coronavirus threat persists, the Japanese startup is offering its
JAKARTA, June 9 (Reuters): Indonesia has resumed domestic flights for all passengers provided airlines operate at 70% capacity and follow strict rules brought into force on Tuesday, when the country announ
HOUSTON, June 9 (Reuters): Thousands of mourners braved sweltering Texas heat on Monday to view the casket of George Floyd, whose death after a police officer knelt on his neck ignited worldwide protests a
SEOUL, June 9 (Reuters): A South Korean court on Tuesday denied an arrest warrant request for Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee after prosecutors accused him of accounting fraud and stock manipulation. &nbs
HONG KONG, June 9 (Reuters): Medical sector worker Tana has attended peaceful lunchtime rallies in Hong Kong regularly for months along with thousands of others protesting Beijing's influence and calli
STOCKHOLM, June 9 (Reuters): Thirty-four years after Prime Minister Olof Palme was killed, Swedes hope finally to find out who shot him dead as he walked home from a cinema with his wife and son.
NEW YORK, June 9 (Reuters): While some potential vaccines have emerged in the global race to find a way to stop the spread of COVID-19, many scientists and researchers believe antibody based therapies hold
HONG KONG, June 9 (Reuters): Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam warned on Tuesday the city could not afford further "chaos" as activists marked a year of sustained pro-democracy rallies with lunchtime p
DUBAI, June 9 (Reuters): An Iranian citizen who provided information to U.S. and Israeli intelligence services on the whereabouts of Iran's slain Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani will be
Seoul, June 9 (IANS) North Korea did not answer South Korea's liaison office phone call on Tuesday after vowing to cut off all inter-Korean communication lines later in the day in anger over Seoul's fai
Washington, June 9 (IANS) The global number of COVID-19 cases has increased to over 7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 406,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Tu
Washington, June 9 (IANS) Democratic lawmakers have unveiled an ambitious bill designed to reform US police departments, including language to prohibit the tactics that caused the death of unarmed African-Ameri
GENEVA, June 8 (Reuters): The World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries on Monday to press on with efforts to contain the novel coronavirus, noting the pandemic was worsening globally and had not pea
DUBAI/RIYADH, June 8 (Reuters): Saudi Arabia could drastically limit numbers at the annual haj pilgrimage to prevent a further outbreak of coronavirus after cases in the country topped 100,000, sources fam
