ANKARA: Turkey today vowed complete support for Baku and called on Armenia to give up its “aggression” after heavy fighting erupted in Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh. The worst clashes since 2016 broke out today between arch-foes Azerbaijan and Armenia who have been locked for decades in a territorial […]
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NEW DELHI: India today reported the number of coronavirus cases in the country had passed six million, as the pandemic rages across the vast South Asian nation. With 6.1 million infections according to the health ministry, India is on course to pass the United States in the coming weeks as […]
LONDON: The British government wants university students to be able to return home for Christmas, culture minister Oliver Dowden said today, amid concerns that more lockdown measures may be needed to curb the rising number of coronavirus cases. “I very much want students to be able to go home at […]
JAKARTA: Indonesia reported 3,874 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, bringing the total number of cases to 275,213, official data from the Covid-19 task force showed. The southeast Asian country also reported 78 new deaths, bringing the total number of fatalities to 10,386. A total of 3,611 people recovered from the […]
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s top diplomat today condemned US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “blatant ignorance” for suggesting President Donald Trump was trampling on democracy as if he were in Turkey. Trump sparked outrage in Washington by indicating on Wednesday he might not honour the results of the November 3 US presidential election. […]
PARIS: Four people were stabbed today near the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris that was attacked by Islamist militants over five years ago, Prime Minister Jean Castex said, and police said a suspect had been arrested. A police source had earlier told Reuters that two […]
WASHINGTON: Amid a flurry of major rulings early this summer, the US Supreme Court in an under-the-radar case handed a significant win to Native Americans by finding for the first time that almost half of Oklahoma is tribal land. The ruling was a 5-4 decision in which conservative Justice Neil […]
SEOUL: North Korea expressed regret today over the death of a missing South Korean, saying it shot him as part of measures to battle the coronavirus, the South’s national security adviser said. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent a letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in saying the incident should […]
CHICAGO: The scientific head of the US government programme designed to speed development of Covid-19 vaccines said yesterday he supports stricter rules to grant emergency use of new inoculations against the novel coronavirus. Speaking at a virtual Town Hall with Black physicians and community leaders, Operation Warp Speed scientific lead […]
BANGKOK: Wearing white ribbons, publicly hacking off their hair and making Hunger Games salutes — Thailand’s high school students are doing their best to shake up the country’s rigid education system. As university students stage weeks of high-profile campus protests for democracy, their younger brethren are advancing their own rebellion […]