Xi’s government cut off direct communications across the Taiwan Strait during Tsai’s first four years in office, citing her refusal to accept that both sides belong to “one China.” Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen urged China’s Xi Jinping to “find a way to co-exist” with the island’s democratic government, as she […]
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It was the first criminal case where a death sentence was pronounced by remote hearing in Singapore A man has been sentenced to death in Singapore via a Zoom video-call for his role in a drug deal, the city-state’s first case where capital punishment has been delivered remotely. Punithan Genasan, […]
WASHINGTON: The United States on Monday (May 18) surpassed 90,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus and 1.5 million confirmed cases, according to a running tally from Johns Hopkins University. The Baltimore-based monitor registered 10,000 deaths in just one week. The US has the world’s highest number of deaths and infections […]
Their rebellion has claimed more than 20,000 lives and left more than 7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. Islamic extremists stormed a village just as people were preparing to break their Ramadan fast after sundown, killing at least 20 people in the first attack of its kind in […]
NEW DELHI: Coronavirus cases in India reached 100,000 on Tuesday (May 19), matching the number of intensive care unit beds in the country, while the rate of new infections showed little sign of slowing. India reported 4,970 new cases over the past 24 hours, taking the total from the outbreak […]
FILE PHOTO: Healthcare workers wearing personal protection equipment (PPE) take a food delivery outside Elmhurst Hospital Center, as the spread of COVID-19 continues, in the Queens borough of New York City. WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump attacked the United Nations health body as a Chinese “puppet” on Monday (May 18) […]
Sixty-one countries had moved a resolution at the the WHO’s decision-making body — asking for an “impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation” of the WHO’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, as well as identification of “the zoonotic source” of the coronavirus. Amid calls by a majority of the member countries, including […]
The epicentre of the earthquake was at a depth of eight kilometres and it was felt in Huize County of Qujing City as well as the cities of Zhaotong, Xuanwei and Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture. In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, medical staff transfer an injured person after […]
In an abrupt reversal of the re-opening taking place across the nation, cities in Jilin province have cut off trains and buses, shut schools and quarantined tens of thousands of people. Some 108 million people in China’s northeast region are being plunged back under lockdown conditions as a new and […]
The Office of National Statistics says jobless claims surged by 856,000 to 2.1 million in April as compared to the month before. Unemployment claims in Britain jumped 69 per cent in April, as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold and hit the labor market, UK authorities said Tuesday. The Office of […]