London, May 27 (IANS) Another 134 COVID-19 patients have died in Britain, bringing the total coronavirus-related death toll in the country to 37,048, the Department of Health and Social Care has said.
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Addis Ababa, May 27 (IANS) The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across the African continent surpassed 115,616 as the death toll from the ongoing pandemic surged to 3,479, the Africa Centres for Disease Contr
Washington, May 27 (IANS) US President Donald Trump on Wednesday hit back at Twitter for tagging two of his tweets on mail-in voting with a fact-checking warning label. The label was imposed on two
ZURICH, May 26 (Reuters): The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that a safety team would review data on hydroxychloroquine by next month, a day after officials cited safety concerns that prom
AMSTERDAM, May 26 (Reuters): Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte did not visit his 96-year-old mother for more than eight weeks until hours before her death this month due to lockdown measures in the Netherlan
MOSCOW, May 26 (Reuters): Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday told an ally of Libya's eastern commander Khalifa Haftar that Moscow backed an immediate ceasefire and political talks that w
POMPEII, Italy, May 26 (Reuters): Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried in an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD and later unearthed, is ready to rise again from the catastrophe of the coronavirus pandem
HONG KONG, May 26 (Reuters): Hong Kong police issued a warning late on Tuesday that they would not tolerate disruptions to public order, after activists circulated calls online for fresh demonstrations on
WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters): The Pentagon's deputy inspector general Glenn Fine resigned from his position on Tuesday, more than a month after President Donald Trump removed Fine as the Pentagon's
SEOUL, MAY 26 (IANS): North Korea's main newspaper on Tuesday warned its people against imitating foreign films and music, saying the inflow of "bourgeois culture" hinders the country from progres
MADRID, May 26 (Reuters): The Spanish government declared a 10-day official mourning period from Wednesday to honour the nearly 30,000 people who died from the coronavirus pandemic in one of the world'
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 26 (Reuters): Norway's Equinor ASA and Anglo-French firm Perenco are among at least five oil producers that have registered coronavirus cases among employees or contractors at facil
SAO PAULO, May 26 (Reuters): The governor of Brazil's Rio de Janeiro denied any wrongdoing after the federal police searched his residences in connection with a corruption probe, according to a strongl
Dubai, May 26 (IANS): An Indian expat, who recently recovered from COVID-19, fell to his death from a building in Dubai, police said. The 26-year-old Indian national from Kerala, fell from the seve
Washington, May 26 (IANS): Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden has made his first public appearance at a Memorial Day event after more than two months in quarantine amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Canberra, May 26 (IANS): Australia's universities were mulling ways on how to resume face-to-face classes during the COVID-19 crisis, while pressure mounts on international students who remain outside the c
London, May 26 (IANS): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnsons approval rating has dropped 20 points to -1 per cent after he refused to sack his chief aide, Dominic Cummings for allegedly breaking coronavirus lockdown
BEIJING, May 26 (Reuters): President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday China would step up its preparedness for armed combat and improve its ability to carry out military tasks as the coronavirus pandemic is havi
BEIJING, May 26 (Reuters): Beijing's planned national security legislation for Hong Kong is set to block its foreign judges from handling national security trials, people familiar with the matter said,
GENEVA, May 26 (Reuters): The U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday its work in Yemen was near a "potential breaking point" as coronavirus spreads in the war-damaged country, with rising numbers of
