Community health volunteers check the temperature of a baby during a check up campaign for Covid-19 at a slum in Mumbai, India August 16, 2020. NEW DELHI: India’s death toll from the coronavirus hit 50,000 today, with more than 900 new fatalities reported in 24 hours, health ministry data showed. […]
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WASHINGTON: The United States surpassed 170,000 coronavirus deaths yesterday, according to a Reuters tally, as health officials express concerns over Covid-19 complicating the fall flu season. Deaths rose by 483 yesterday, with Florida, Texas and Louisiana, leading the rise in fatalities. The United States has at least 5.4 million confirmed […]
LONDON: The British government was criticised by lawmakers in its own party today after a mounting row over English exam grades awarded during the pandemic intensified, in the latest hit to its reputation. With a nationwide lockdown forcing exams to be cancelled, the government used an algorithm to assess grade […]
About 5,500 Canada Revenue Agency accounts were targeted in this and another attack, the authorities said. TORONTO: Thousands of user accounts for online government services in Canada were recently hacked during cyber attacks, authorities said yesterday. The attacks targeted the GCKey service, used by some 30 federal departments and […]
Trump has been piling pressure on Chinese-owned companies, such as by vowing to ban short-video app TikTok from the United States. US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he could exert pressure on more Chinese companies such as technology giant Alibaba after he moved to ban TikTok. Asked at a […]
Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was born in Chennai before she moved to the USA to pursue a doctoral degree at University of California Berkeley. Kamala Harris, the US vice-presidential candidate, on Saturday congratulated India on the progress “our people have made in the fight for justice” as she extended her […]
The president visited his brother at a New York City hospital on Friday after White House officials said he had become seriously ill. President Donald Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump, a businessman known for an even keel that seemed almost incompatible with the family name, died Saturday night after being […]
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey: US President Donald Trump said on Saturday (Aug 15) he could exert pressure on more Chinese companies such as technology giant Alibaba after he moved to ban TikTok. Asked at a news conference whether there were other particular China-owned companies he was considering a ban on, such […]
California on Friday became the first US state to surpass 600,000 cases and the Midwest saw several record one-day rises as some states struggled to contain the pandemic even as a few welcomed students back to school campuses. Russia said on Saturday that it has produced the first batch of […]
Over the last three weeks, the number of new confirmed cases in South Africa has dropped from a peak of over 12,000 a day to an average over the past week of around 5,000 a day. The recovery rate has increased from 48 per cent to 80 per cent. A […]