BRUSSELS, May 27 (Reuters): The European Commission unveiled on Wednesday a plan to borrow on the market and then disburse to EU countries 750 billion euros in grants and loans to help them recover from th
WASHINGTON, May 27 (Reuters): U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had offered to mediate a standoff between India and China at the Himalayan border, where soldiers camped out in a high-altitud
DUBAI, May 27 (Reuters): Iran's new parliament convened on Wednesday after the Feb. 21 elections under strict health protocols and social distancing rules to ward off the coronavirus in one of the hard
WASHINGTON/MUMBAI, May 27 (Reuters): U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan is down to nearly 8,600, well ahead of a schedule agreed with Taliban militants in late February, in part because of concerns about t
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 27 (Reuters): SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, was set to launch two Americans into orbit on Wednesday from Florida on a mission that woul
BRUSSELS, May 27 (Reuters): Border closures do little to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the European Union's public health agency said, as EU states weigh lifting some travel restrictions imposed at t
HONG KONG, May 27 (Reuters): Police in Hong Kong fired pepper pellets and made 300 arrests as thousands of people took to the streets on Wednesday to voice anger over national security legislation pro
MADRID, May 27 (Reuters): Grieving Spaniards wore black and fell silent across the nation at midday on Wednesday at the start of 10 days of mourning for more than 27,000 dead from the coronavirus cris
SEOUL, May 27 (Reuters): South Korea reported the highest daily number of new coronavirus cases in 49 days on Wednesday, as one of the country's largest e-commerce companies battled an outbreak linked
Dhaka, May 27 (IANS): At least four labourers were dead and 15 remained missing after a boat capsized in the river of Jamuna in Bangladesh's Sirajganj district, a senior police official said on Wednesday.
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.
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