MUMBAI: India reported a record daily jump of coronavirus infections today, bringing the total near 3 million and piling pressure on authorities to curb huge gatherings as a major religious festival began. The 69,878 new infections — the fourth straight day above 60,000 — take India’s total cases to 2.98 […]
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Prominent Russian anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny, who has been in a coma since Thursday, arrived in Germany for medical treatment after his suspected poisoning, according to his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh’s tweet. After two days, Russian authorities allowed his transportation abroad after Navalny’s family, activists and international leaders appealed directly to […]
At least 100,000 people have been ordered to evacuate as the “deadly” blaze continues to spread in the US state of California. The wildfires in the US state of California sparked by lightning strikes have more than doubled in size and claimed at least six lives and injured 43 fighters […]
SYDNEY: Antarctic air reaching Australia’s south east triggered snowfall down to low altitudes across several states today, with many people out enjoying the rare event despite wild winds and heavy snow that closed some roads. Pictures of snowy towns and landscapes across New South Wales (NSW), Victoria, the Australia Capital […]
NEW DELHI: Social media giant Facebook admitted yesterday it has to do better to curb hate speech as it battled a storm over how it handled comments by a member of India’s ruling party who called Muslims traitors. “We’ve made progress on tackling hate speech on our platform, but we […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter yesterday said it is bracing for efforts by President Donald Trump or others to attack the integrity of the US election, as US media reported that Facebook and YouTube were planning defences of their own. Trump has used Twitter in particular to stoke unsubstantiated doubts about mail-in […]
GENEVA: The world should be able to rein in the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years, the World Health Organisation said on Friday, as European nations battled rising numbers of new cases. Western Europe has been enduring the kind of infection levels not seen in many months, particularly in […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s second most populous state, Victoria, reported 13 new coronavirus deaths in the 24 hours to this morning, authorities said, while new infections in the hotspot state remained below 200 for the second consecutive day. Other than in Victoria, which accounts for over 80 per cent of the country’s […]
SEOUL: South Korea started talks with China’s top diplomat today, the first visit by a high-level Beijing official since the new coronavirus emerged in China late last year. Yang Jiechi, a member of the Communist Party Politburo, was meeting South Korea’s new national security adviser, Suh Hoon, in the southern […]
WASHINGTON: The Republican Party is to make its case next week for four more years of President Donald Trump after his Democratic opponent Joe Biden wrapped up his party’s convention with a vow to end what he called a “chapter of American darkness.” With the nation digesting the impact of […]