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Deadly double bomb attacks hit Philippines

The apparently coordinated attacks happened in Jolo in Muslim-majority Sulu, where government-backed security forces have always been fighting the Abu Sayyaf gr...

Hong Kong Believed to Have 1st Human Reinfected With COVID-19

The researchers branded the case "the world's first documentation of a patient who recovered from Covid-19, but got another episode of Covid-19 afterwards" and ...

Christchurch Attacker Intended to Burn Down Mosques, Prosecutor Says

A white supremacist who killed 51 people at two mosques in New Zealand a year ago watched without emotion on Monday as relatives of his victims recounted the ho...

Abe returns to Tokyo hospital one week after checkup

The Japanese media have speculated about Abe's health this month, including detailed reports on Abe's walking speed. "I will address the matter about the additi...

Protests in Wisconsin after police shoot Black man

No further explanation was given by the police as to what led to the shooting, in which one officer fired seven rounds into the man's back. A man identified b...

Four out of 10 Pinoys say Russia COVID vaccine safe to use

World Health Organization director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the facility was critical to ending the Covid-19 pandemic, and would not only pool ri...

South Korea reports biggest rise in coronavirus cases since March

Korea hit its peak of new infections in March, when there were up to 600 new cases a day. A medical worker in a booth takes test samples for the COVID-19 coro...

Trump to announce Covid plasma treatment authorization

A CBS News/YouGov Poll released Sunday said 57% of Republicans think the number of USA deaths from COVID-19 has been acceptable, compared with 33% of independ...

Republican National Convention 2020: Trump To Appear, Speak Every Night Of RNC

Republicans represent a significant portion of America. "That's what he said", Biden told Muir. "We need to be lifted up". Trump continues to receive low mark...

China holds another round of naval drills in South China Sea

China's state-run news agency Xinhua had said earlier reported that Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe had told US Defense Secretary Mark Esper to "stop errone...

US House passes bill preventing Postal Service changes

He could not provide senators with a plan for handling the ballot crush for the election. Only 26 Republicans voted in favor of the bill, defying their pa...

Ex-Green Beret Charged With Spying for Russian Federation for Decades

Debbins served as an active-duty officer in the US Army from 1998 to 2005. Debbins has been arrested and is now being held at the Alexandria Detention Center....

Trump Says QAnon Conspiracists 'Like Me Very Much'

Mr. Trump had urged a no vote, railing against mail-in ballots expected to surge in the COVID-19 crisis, and the White House said he would veto it if it reached...

Panda cub born at Smithsonian National Zoo in DC

The Smithsonian National Zoo has grown by four paws with the birth of a giant panda cub. Fans of Mei Xiang and her baby can keep up with developments on the...

NZ extends Auckland coronavirus lockdown; Australia case numbers slow

There are 123 active Covid-19 cases in New Zealand at the moment, of which 19 are of people returning from overseas. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is expe...

India's virus caseload tops 3 million as disease moves south

Covid-19 mortalities too declined, with 856 deaths recorded on Sunday. On Sunday, numerous worst-hit states showed a drop in fresh cases, which could be linke...

Iran: Explosion at nuclear facility was sabotage

Iran's top security body said on July 4 the cause of the fire the previous day had been determined but would be announced later "for security reasons". Report...

PM: Morocco rejects normalising ties with Israel

Netanyahu said late Sunday that he was confident other countries would soon follow the UAE's lead and make peace with Israel. Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, Secretary-Gen...

India to have COVID-19 vaccine by 2020 end: Health Min

There were reports of SII being able to commercialise the vaccine in 73 days. The vaccine - known as Covishield in India - was developed by Oxford University ...

North Korean President Kim Jong-un is in coma, claims former diplomat

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is reportedly in a coma and his sister Kim Yo-jong will be exercising "de facto control" over national and worldwide affairs, S...

US authorises use of blood plasma treatment for Covid-19 patients

Food and Drug Administration's authorization of convalescent plasma treatment for COVID patients. The move comes less than a week after officials at the Nat...

Conway to leave White House, cites desire to focus on family

The Washington Post first reported on Conway's planned exit. Her husband, George Conway , a conservative lawyer and outspoken critic of the president, is s...

SII Dismissses Report of Commercialization of 'Covishield' in India in 73 Days

The death toll is also increasing and seeing the circumstances Government has increased the testing and also the vaccine trials have picked up pace in India. Pa...

B.C. adds 90 COVID-19 cases, new record for most active

Violation tickets expand the province's enforcement toolkit to support the COVID-19 response, it said in its media release . There have been two more deaths ...

Judge rebuffs Trump again on tax records; appeals under way

Several House committees also are pursuing Trump's tax records. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero wrote in his order Friday that Trump "has not demonstrat...

United States clash: Iran announces decision on Ukrainian plane shot down

Iranian and Ukrainian officials have also held talks on the compensation to families of the victims. The Ukraine International Airlines plane was shot down by...

President’s sister describes Trump as liar with ‘no principles’ in recordings

At one point in the recordings, she exclaims: "His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God". "It's the phoniness and this cruelty", Barry says on the tape. U.S. ...

US residents flee as Gulf Coast sees possible tandem hurricanes

The hurricane is now over the Gulf of Mexico and is expected make landfall on Monday. "Residents should continue to monitor the storm and be prepared for seve...

St Albans and Harpenden GCSE Results Day 2020

The school hall, where year 11 students collected their GCSE results. Shadow Education Secretary Kate Green reflected that it is better to "get it right tha...

India conducts one million COVID-19 tests in last 24 hours

Over 35.2 million samples have been collected for Covid-19 testing in the country till August 22, the Indian Council of Medical Research ( ICMR ) informed on Su...

California seeks help as wildfires threaten communities

Two clusters of wildfires in the San Francisco Bay Area grew to become the second- and third-largest wildfires in recent state history by size. They've bu...

KCR orders CID investigation into Srisailam fire accident

They were identified as Assistant Engineers Mohan Kumar, Uzma Fatima, and Sunder, Divisional Engineer Srinivas Goud and Mahesh, an employee of a battery company...

Police Under Fire After Fatally Shooting Louisiana Black Man Trayford Pellerin

The police claim they attempted to deploy Tasers, but they were ineffective. When officers tried to apprehend him, Pellerin left and officers followed on foot. ...

2 tropical storms a potential double threat to US Gulf Coast

The projected track from the U.S. National Hurricane Center would put both storms together in the Gulf on Tuesday, with Marco hitting Texas and Laura making lan...

Coronavirus: UK takes Portugal off travel restrictions list, adds Croatia, Austria

Serbia is removed from England's quarantine-free list on the day the "air bridges" policy is implemented. Meanwhile, the Scottish government has added Switzer...