Modi seeks ‘forgiveness’ from India’s poor over COVID-19 lockdown
Modi apologises as 21-day lockdown stings millions, leaving the poor hungry and forcing migrant workers to flee cities.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked the ...
N Korea confirms ‘successful’ missile tests; fourth in a month
Official news agency KCNA says tests involved a 'super-large multiple rocket launcher' and was of 'great significance'.
N Korea confirmed on Monday a series of missiles tests,...
North Korea launches sixth unidentified projectile in under a month
North Korea fired an unidentified projectile into the sea off the coast of Japan Sunday morning, the sixth launch by the Kim Jong Un regime in less than a month.Japan's...
Coronavirus: Prime Minister Boris Johnson tests positive
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus.
Mr Johnson said he developed mild symptoms over the past 24 hours, including a temperature and cough.
Senegal: 10-minute coronavirus test may be on its way – for $1
Until a vaccine is ready, widespread testing is one of the key strategies employed to 'flatten the curve' of pandemic.
Researchers this week began validation trials on...
Russia latest country to receive coronavirus kits from Jack Ma
Chinese billionaire has sent essential supplies to African countries and the US, and plans to help Latin America.
Russia has received more than a million face masks...
G20 Pledges $5 Trillion To Revive Global Economy, PM Calls For WHO Reform
Coronavirus pandemic: PM Modi said that the WHO is based on a last-century model and needs reform.
G20 nations Thursday pledged a "united front" in the fight against...
Japan struggling to get a grip on social distancing
Japan's approach to social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic might seem to other nations around the world like it is very social, and not so distant.
As...
Venezuela president Maduro wanted by DOJ for drug trafficking, Barr announces
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday unsealed a searing criminal indictment against Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and several "co-conspirators," accusing them of an array of narcotics and trafficking-related crimes, including efforts...
Mali opposition leader Soumaila Cisse goes missing: Party
Cisse's URD party said the politician and his team had gone missing after campaigning near the town of Niafunke.
Leading Malian opposition leader Soumaila Cisse has...