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U.S. destroying peace, stability in South China Sea, says China

Bloomberg quoted a USA defense official who asked not to be identified as saying that China actually fired a total of four medium-range ballistic missiles d...

Amid Karachi rain disaster, Sindh sends SOS to Centre

Some workers stayed at their offices and others spent the night in open areas because there was no transportation to get home in many parts of the city. The pre...

3 dead as storm lashes Australia’s Victoria state

Victoria now accounts for about 73 percent of all of Australia's confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 85 percent of the nation's deaths. "I don't know; the tail of...

Pelosi: Biden Shouldn't 'Legitimize' Trump By Debating Him

Speaking to the Examiner, President Trump went on record saying "I don't know how he [Mr Biden] could have been so incompetent in his debate performances and th...

India to reopen underground train networks even as coronavirus cases jump

Officials reported 371 new infections as of midnight Thursday, bringing the total to 19,077, including 316 deaths. Korea Centers for Disease Control and Preve...

Berlin police brace for virus protest as court overturns ban

Police said at least two people have been arrested after bottles and rocks were thrown at them. Berlin city authorities had previously decided not to allow...

Banksy funds rescue boat to save refugees at sea

According to Missing Migrants , an organisation tracking the numbers of people leaving north Africa, 514 people have died trying to make the crossing so far i...

Hong Kong Arrests Two Lawmakers in Further Blow to Opposition

Wu Chi-wai, chairman of the Democratic Party, said the latest arrests would do little to heal divisions. Pro-democracy lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting protests at the...

Dead dolphins wash up near Mauritius oil spill site

The death toll may rise: fisherman Yasfeer Heenaye said he saw between 25 and 30 apparently dead dolphins floating in the lagoon on Friday morning, among scores...

Essex lorry deaths: Ronan Hughes pleads guilty to manslaughter

Appearing at a full Old Bailey courtroom in London on Friday, Hughes stood in the dock facing the judge as the names of the 31 men and boys and eight women were...

United States protests turn violent over Wisconsin police shooting of Jacob Blake

Wisconsin Governor Evers condemned the shooting . Just like the previous night, the unrest was accompanied by vandalism, with protesters filmed setting fire ...

Israel lists first commercial passenger flight to United Arab Emirates

The UAE-Israel agreement to normalize bilateral relations was brokered by the USA and announced in principle earlier this month. The Monday flight on a Boei...

Russian Federation claims to have an effective vaccine to fight Covid-19

The measures also include expanding the trained workforce who can administer COVID-19 and flu vaccines, as well as clarifying the scope of the protection from c...

US Agencies Warn of Uptick in North Korean Bank Heists

The U.S. Justice Department today filed a civil forfeiture complaint aiming to seize control of 280 Bitcoin ( BTC ) and Ethereum ( ETH ) accounts containing f...

Flash floods leave dozens dead north of Kabul

Ahmad Tameem Azimi, spokesman of the Disaster Management Ministry, said flooding blocked highways to eastern and northern provinces. With rescuing citizens, we'...

Bangladesh Allows Human Trial of COVID-19 Vaccine Developed by Chinese Company

The proposed regulations would allow coronavirus vaccines to receive an emergency approval allowing people to be immunised while the full licensing process is b...

Coronavirus hits 10 members of a dwindling Indian tribe

On the Indian mainland, in the eastern state of Odisha, a member of a hill tribe had also tested positive, a State Official said. The Great Andamanese count...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announces resignation

The outgoing prime minister went on to note that he hadn't meant to "cause trouble by resigning suddenly", Jiji quoted him as saying. He noted his failure to se...

Sinovac's Covid Vaccine Candidate Approved For Emergency Use, Wil Hit Market Soon

According to SVP for worldwide business Pierre Morgon, the vaccine did not show any serious safety signals while promoting an immune response in early-stage tri...

Bangladesh allows COVID-19 vaccine trials of Chinese company Sinovac on humans

US President Donald Trump has promised to produce a vaccine for Covid-19 before the end of this year, "or may be even sooner". However, he predicted that it w...

Jacob Blake no longer handcuffed to bed

When asked if knowing about the warrant would change the nature of the police response, Miskinis said there would "be heightened awareness" but said that, while...

France alerts for Covid-19 new outbreak, gov't seeks to keep calm

Citing the deteriorating sanitary indicators, Castex stressed that the government had to intervene fast to control an eventual new outbreak, which French scient...

Hurricane Laura: First photos of catastrophic storm hitting U.S.

The hurricane hit with powerful winds causing extensive damage to the city. The Port of Lake Charles remained closed as workers were unable to enter or exit t...

Here’s What the Old Farmer’s Almanac Predicts for Your Winter Riding Weather

The overall outlook for the winter of 2020-2021, we're calling it the Winter of the Great Divide with cold and snowy conditions in the north, drought in the wes...

Coronavirus plasma treatment still experimental, cautions WHO

Soumya Swaminathan, WHO chief scientist, said only a few clinical trials of convalescent plasma have produced results, and the evidence, at least so far, has ...

Local school boards update staggered back to school plans

Secondary students will participate in Remote Learning through their classroom teacher at their home school. "This decision was not made lightly and was made ...

China Fires ‘Aircraft-Carrier Killer’ Missile in Attempt to Scare Off U.S.

On Tuesday (Aug 25), the United States sent a U2 spy plane into an area designated by Beijing as a no-fly zone, where the PLA's Northern Theatre Command was car...

Teenagers discover old hidden prize in Israel, report states

Eli Hadad, the administrators of the dig. The largest gold hoard unearthed in Israel was discovered in 2015-nearly 2,000 gold coins were found by divers o...

Miami police officer's wife dies after getting locked in patrol vehicle

Somehow, the door closed and car's self-locking mechanism was activated. Her body was found around four hours after she first went in, according to the Miami...

County reports cases of newborns with COVID-19 for first time

Hamilton County's new cases also remain stable (86 today), below the one hundred line we saw earlier this month. More than 1.4 million people have tested negati...

Rand Paul Says 'Crazed Mob' Attacked Him, Wife

A while later, police moved in to push demonstrators away from some locations around the White House , sparking scuffles and altercations. The senator noted th...

Minneapolis Under Curfew, State Of Emergency After Black Homicide Suspect's Death

The Minneapolis mayor has imposed a curfew and requested National Guard help after unrest broke out downtown following what authorities said was misinformat...

Over 77,000 Coronavirus Cases In India In Biggest One-Day Rise

With the new additions, the case tally zoomed to 33,87,500 while the death toll climbed to 61,529. More than 77,000 people have been infected with coronaviru...

Tracking Laura: Storm will bring heavy rain and thunderstorms today & tomorrow

Two such waves are now being monitored by the National Hurricane Center . Laura continues to weaken and is now a tropical depression but still has some impre...

McHenry County reports 66 new cases of COVID-19

While almost all of the new COVID-19 cases discovered in Island Health this month have been linked to community exposures or known case clusters, one case ident...