A man walks with his pet dog as he talks to a vendor who sells dog meat at a market during the local dog meat festival in Yulin, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China on June 21, 2018. (REUTERS File Photo)
A man wears protective mask as he walks past a propaganda banner promoting prevention against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Hanoi, Vietnam on April 3, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
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Post-it notes are seen inside a convention center that was used as a makeshift hospital to treat patients with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Wuhan, Hubei province, China on April 9. (REUTERS Photo)
Afghan govt formation impasse on as rivals prepare to take oath. (IANS File Photo)
KABUL, APRIL 9 (IANS): The Afghanistan government has released a first batch of 100 Taliban&nb
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UNITED NATIONS, APRIL 9 (IANS): The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could increase global poverty by as much a half a billion, said a UN study into the financial and
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DHAKA, APRIL 9 (IANS): The mercy petition of a man who has been sentenced to death for the killing of Bangladesh's founding President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has been rejected by inc
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WASHINGTON, APRIL 9 (IANS): An US civil servant whose revealed the affair between former US President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern, has died, it
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington, US on April 7, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
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Vital Kamerhe, leader of the Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC) party, attends a meeting with Congo's Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) and observers from the Southern African Development Commu
A Houthi supporter looks on as he carries a weapon during a gathering in Sanaa, Yemen on April 2, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
DUBAI/RIYADH, April 9 (Reuters): The Saudi-led coalition fighting Y
Parked school buses are seen after California issued a stay-at-home order as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Los Angeles, California, US on April 3, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
Judy Boifuana hikes in the jungle near Igwa village on the island of Malaita, Solomon Islands on September 18, 2019. (Thomson Reuters Foundation File Photo)
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United Nations, April 9 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged support for the World Health Organization (WHO) after US President Donald Trump threatened to freeze American funding.
"It
A healthcare worker in protective suits helps an elderly person to get off an ambulance at the Southeast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center nursing home during the coronavirus epidemic. San Antonio, Texas,
Geneva, April 9 (IANS) "Please quarantine politicizing COVID. If we want to win, we shouldn't waste time pointing fingers," World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged
Washington, April 9 (IANS) US President Donald Trump renewed his attack on the World Health Organization (WHO) as he said that the US will make a determination on WHO funding.
On Wednesday, Trump while
New York, April 9 (IANS) New York's "battle on the mountaintop" against coronavirus is raging, its death toll rose by a record number for a second consecutive day, hospitalisations are slowing and its curv
Beijing, April 9 (IANS) The first batch of 866 people stranded in virus-hit Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, has arrived in Beijing by a train after Wuhan lifted its outbound travel restri
New York, April 9 (IANS) Global confirmed COVID-19 cases surpassed 1.5 million on Wednesday afternoon local time, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins Univers
Healthcare workers push a stretcher holding a deceased persons on it at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID19) in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., April