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SHANGHAI/HONG KONG: Investors in China are betting on a bumpy ride until the end of the US presidential election and...

MELBOURNE: Australia's coronavirus hot spot of Victoria is considering easing more curbs from Sep 26 than previously flagged, the state's...

SEOUL: A vehicle that may be carrying a ballistic missile has been spotted at a parade training ground in North...

OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will unveil today what he says is a far-reaching plan to help the economy...

SEOUL: South Korea's President Moon Jae-in called yesterday for a regional infectious disease control and public health initiative involving China,...

WASHINGTON: The Democratic-led US House of Representatives passed a stopgap funding Bill yesterday to keep the federal government operating through...

BEIJING: China is forcing Tibetan farmers and herders into labour programmes similar to those used in troubled Xinjiang, a US...

NEW YORK: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed yesterday that the next US leader must accept Tehran's demands, ruling out compromise...

WASHINGTON: The United States registered its 200,000th death from the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday (Sep 22), the latest grim milestone...

WASHINGTON: Chinese President Xi Jinping announced plans to boost his country's Paris climate accord target yesterday and called for a...

LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the British people yesterday to work from home where possible and ordered restaurants and...

NEW YORK: TikTok has proposed a global coalition of social media firms for early identification and removal of harmful content,...

NEW YORK: Facebook said on Tuesday (Sep 22) it had removed a network of inauthentic Chinese accounts that were interfering...

LONDON: Canada's Bianca Andreescu has pulled out of the French Open and will take the rest of the season off...

LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested today that coronavirus infections were higher in Britain than in Italy or Germany because...

OTTAWA: Covid-19 infections have surged in Canada and if people do not take stringent precautions, they could balloon to exceed...

LONDON: West Ham United manager David Moyes and players Issa Diop and Josh Cullen have returned positive tests for COVID-19,...

WASHINGTON: US Senate Republicans today have their first formal gathering since liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death gave...

MOSCOW: The Kremlin on Tuesday said that Russian efforts to look into the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who...

JAKARTA: Indonesia reported on Tuesday its biggest daily rise in coronavirus deaths with 160 fatalities, data from the country’s Covid-19...