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Russia on Tuesday became the first country in the world to officially register a COVID-19 vaccine and declare it ready for use, despite international skepticism. To underscore its efficacy, President Vladimir Putin said that one of his daughters has already ...

World Covid-19 cases surpassed the 20 million mark on Sunday night, as three of the worst hit countries also hit grim milestones of their own. According to worldometers.info, total confirmed cases were tallied at 20,016,286, with the death toll also ...

A Canadian citizen has been sentenced to death in China on charges related to ketamine. Xu Weihong, 45, was convicted of producing the drug in October 2016 by the Intermediate People’s Court of Guangzhou in Guangdong Province. The court said ...

China, where the coronavirus was detected last December, is now facing a new health threat from another virus, that is tick-borne. The virus causes a disease called “Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS). According to reports, it has already killed ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has commiserated with the people and government of Lebanon over Tuesday’s Beirut explosions. No fewer than 100 people died while 2,700 others were injured in the massive blasts at the city’s port, the Minister of Health, ...

Spain’s former monarch, King Juan Carlos I, has announced he is leaving Spain to live in another country amid $100 million corruption scandal. The royal family’s website on Monday published a letter from Juan Carlos to his son, King Felipe VI, saying ...

Kanye West has officially filed Michelle Tidball, a life coach based in Wyoming, as his vice president on Arkansas’ presidential ballot. A spokesperson for the Arkansas Secretary of State told TMZ that Kanye’s campaign turned in the needed 1,000 signatures ...

Russia says it is delivering its Avifavir medication against Covid-19 to 15 countries already. Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which took part in the creation of the remedy, disclosed this to Russia-24 broadcaster in ...

The first five Rafale fighter jets bought from France in a multi-billion-dollar deal landed in India on Wednesday and the defence minister used their arrival to launch a veiled warning to neighbouring China over territorial tensions. A water-cannon guard of ...

Malaysia’s former prime minister, Najib Razak, was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 12 years in jail on Tuesday. High court judge Mohamad Nazlan Mohamad Ghazali sentenced Najib to 12 years and a fine of 210 million ringgit ($49 ...

Chinese citizens have allegedly lit firecrackers outside the US consulate in Chengdu to celebrate the closure of the diplomatic mission. Footage shows a man setting off braids of fireworks as they flare up with smoke in the front-end of the ...

India has banned 47 more Chinese apps just weeks after blocking the highly popular video-sharing platform TikTok and 58 others over national security and privacy concerns, an Indian information ministry official and media reports said Monday. Tensions between the world’s ...

China has taken over the U.S. consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu, following the expiration of the ultimatum given the United States to close the outpost. The closure order was a retaliation for China’s ouster last week from its ...

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden labeled Donald Trump on Wednesday the first racist to become U.S. president. The Trump camp quickly rejected the label. Biden, who was vice president under Barack Obama, the first Black U.S. president, fielded a question ...

U.S. President Donald Trump again called Coronavirus (COVID-19), the ”invincible China virus”. Earlier, he had defended the name-calling, stating reason to be because the virus originated from China. Trump on his verified Twitter page, posted an image of himself wearing ...

A chilling new video has revealed how coronavirus spread around the world following the outbreak in China earlier this year. The data visualisation was put together by designers Global Stats who used the World Health Organisation ‘s (WHO) Situation Reports ...

Earth’s population will peak in 44 years at around 9.7billion before it starts to shrink again, according to scientists who predict Nigeria will eventually be home to more people than China. After 2064 the total number of people will start ...

Fighting erupted inside and outside of Taiwan’s parliament again on Friday over the disputed nomination by President Tsai Ing-wen of a senior aide to a top government watchdog post. The main opposition party labelled the appointment cronyism. The Kuomintang (KMT) ...

The number of coronavirus cases worldwide has topped 13 million with 210 countries and territories infected by the deadly bug. More than 13.14 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 571,854 have died, ...

Germany’s prost!tutes demonstrated in Hamburg’s red light district late on Saturday evening demanding that the brothels be allowed to reopen after months of closure to curb the spread of coronavirus. With shops, restaurants and bars all open again in Germany, ...

The worldwide number of coronavirus cases has passed 12 million. The number of cases is triple that of severe influenza illnesses recorded annually, according to the World Health Organisation. Many hard-hit countries are easing lockdowns put in place to slow ...

Dozens of people have been quarantined after the Bubonic Plague was confirmed in China. Cases of the disease were reported in Bayan-Ulgii aimag, a province in Mongolia, with a 15-year-old boy infected after eating a marmot hunted by a dog. ...

  Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign and joint committees outraised President Trump by $10 million in the month of June, Biden’s campaign announced Wednesday. The campaign, in combination with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and their joint fundraising committees, ...

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has resigned, along with his government, according to an announcement from France’s Presidency. The resignation came ahead of a government reshuffle by President Emmanuel Macron designed to bolster his green credentials and win back disillusioned ...

More than 100 people have tested positive for coronavirus in India after attending the wedding and then funeral of the groom, who reportedly tied the knot while ill with the disease. Officials in Bihar state said Wednesday the 26-year-old groom ...