NEW YORK: Facebook said on Tuesday (Sep 22) it had removed a network of inauthentic Chinese accounts that were interfering in Asian and American politics, including some that posted material supporting and opposing US President Donald Trump. The social networking company said it suspended 155 accounts on its main platform […]
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LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested today that coronavirus infections were higher in Britain than in Italy or Germany because it was a “freedom-loving country”. He was responding to criticism that the UK’s contact tracing and testing programme is not working well enough in the face of a surge in […]
WASHINGTON: US Senate Republicans today have their first formal gathering since liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death gave them a chance to cement a 6-3 conservative majority at the court ahead of the November election. President Donald Trump has urged a quick Senate vote on a Supreme Court […]
MOSCOW: The Kremlin on Tuesday said that Russian efforts to look into the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who Germany says was poisoned, were encountering problems because his allies had removed evidence from the country. Navalny, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, was airlifted to Germany last month […]
JAKARTA: Indonesia reported on Tuesday its biggest daily rise in coronavirus deaths with 160 fatalities, data from the country’s Covid-19 task force showed. Indonesia has reported 9,837 deaths overall, the highest death toll in Asia outside India. It also reported 4,071 new coronavirus infections, bringing the total number of cases […]
NEW DELHI: India reported 75,083 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to federal health data released today, the lowest daily tally in almost a month. There were 1,053 deaths over the same period. There have been 5.6 million cases in total in the […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s ruling Labour Party has lost some support since July as the coronavirus resurged in Auckland, but it is still set to win the upcoming general election on October 17 comfortably, an opinion poll showed today. The 1News-Colmar Brunton poll showed support for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s party, […]
HONG KONG: Hong Kong has no legal basis to demand that any particular rights be extended to 12 Hong Kong people detained in China as they tried to flee by boat and they will have to face the law there, the city’s chief executive said today. The 12 were arrested […]
WASHINGTON: The US Commerce Department said today it will challenge an order issued Sunday by a US judge that blocked the department’s order requiring Apple and Google to remove WeChat from their US app stores. US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction that blocked the […]
LONDON: Britain needs to control the coronavirus now in order for Christmas to be as normal as possible, health minister Matt Hancock said today. “The more we can control the virus now and stop the spread now, the easier it’s going to be to have a Christmas that’s as close […]