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MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday (Oct 27) that he prefers a government-to-government deal for the purchase of...

WASHINGTON: The Republican-controlled US Senate handed President Donald Trump a major pre-election political victory yesterday by confirming his Supreme Court...

ROME: Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi said yesterday organised crime groups planned to kill her and her family because she was...

MILAN: The United States, Russia, France and many other countries are setting records for coronavirus infections as a tidal wave...

DUBAI: Iran extended Covid-19 curbs in Tehran and across the country today as health authorities said they were recording a...

Jodie Whittaker said she panicked thinking she had got the character "all wrong" when she watched Peter Capaldi's Doctor Who...

BERLIN: Germany has suffered more than 10,000 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to official data published...

FLORIDA: US President Donald Trump promised supporters in Florida on Friday (Oct 23) that the COVID-19 pandemic would end soon...

GENEVA: The world is now at a critical juncture in the COVID-19 pandemic and some countries are on a dangerous...

SYDNEY: Australia's Victoria state - the epicentre of the country's COVID-19 outbreak - on Friday (Oct 23) reported that active...

SHANGHAI: China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd reported a 9.9 per cent rise in nine-month revenue on Friday, as US export...

NASHVILLE: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden renewed his attacks on President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic at Thursday's...

In June 2020, an open letter was published calling on the UK's film and TV industry to "tackle structural and...

KANNAPOLIS: A North Carolina man indicted last month on child pornography charges had searched earlier this year for Democratic presidential...

Australian police have arrested 44 men across the nation on suspicion of possessing and producing child abuse material. Sixteen children...

WASHINGTON: Government analysts and private sector investigators were able to rapidly attribute to Iranian hackers a wave of thousands of...

SINGAPORE: The number of Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats sold in the resale market in the third quarter rose...

WASHINGTON: Goldman Sachs on Thursday (Oct 22) said it was clawing back US$174 million in executive compensation and had agreed...

US regulators have given full approval for the antiviral drug remdesivir to treat Covid-19 patients in hospitals. The US Food...

France will extend an overnight curfew to dozens more areas in a bid to slow the spread of coronavirus, Prime...