
A staffer in the office of US Vice President Mike Pence, the point man for Washington's response to the coronavirus outbreak, has tested positive for ...

The coronavirus which has been spreading throughout the world claimed its first two lives in Singapore today, around two months after it arrived on th...

A total of 123 people in Iran have died of coronavirus over the last 24 hours, pushing the death toll to 1,556, said Iranian health officials on Satur...

Iran has freed French academic Roland Marchal who had been imprisoned since June last year.Mr Marchal's release is part of a prisoner swap after Franc...

Iran has announced another 123 deaths from the new coronavirus, bringing its overall toll to 1,556 amid 20,610 confirmed cases.The Health Ministry ann...

Paris: The Indian embassy in France has issued an advisory for its nationals who wish to travel back home before India’s week-long ban, imposed to con...

North Korea today fired two short-range ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan. Citing South Korea's military, South Korean news agency Yonhap re...

The US has announced the closure of its southern border with Mexico for all non-essential travel from today. The US - Canada border has already been c...

Iran's death toll from the new coronavirus outbreak rose by 149 to 1,433 on Friday, while total number of confirmed infections neared 20,000, accordin...

The authorities have suspended the entry and prayer in the outer courtyards of Two Holy Mosques in Makkah and Madinah, Saudi Press Agency reported ear...

Saudi Arabia reported on Friday 70 new cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the Kingdom to 344, the Saudi...

San Francisco: Walmart plans to hire 150,000 people to meet increased demand during the coronavirus crisis and will pay out $365 million in bonuses, t...

The Coronavirus death toll in Italy reached 3,405 after it recorded 427 new deaths.With this, the Mediterranean country overtook China's coronavirus d...

The United States has warned its citizens against any international travel due to the coronavirus pandemic and advised them to come home if possible. ...

In US, a Pakistani doctor was arrested last night for allegedly trying to help ISIS and expressing his desire to conduct lone wolf terrorist attacks i...

Beijing: A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck China's remote Himalayan region of Tibet close to Nepal on Friday, authorities said.The epicentre of the qu...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday tightened a national stay-at-home policy, announcing guidelines aimed at halting the spread of t...

Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley has resigned from the board of Boeing Co., cutting ties with a company she long supported as South Carolina g...

At least 29 soldiers died in a terrorist attack in Northern Mali, said the army.The attack took place early on Thursday, Sputnik reported."The FAM pos...

Governor Gavin Newsom told Californians they should only leave their homes when necessary during the pandemic.He earlier estimated more than half of t...

The United Arab Emirates on Thursday banned the entry of all its valid residence visa holders, who are currently out of the country, for two weeks, st...

Passing through airports in Hong Kong and Tokyo this week highlighted the differences in the approaches of the two Asian hubs in dealing with the nove...

Nearly 100 Indian travellers, arriving from the Philippines and Malaysia, are stranded at Singapore's Changi Airport and are unable to get back home d...

Saudi Arabia cancelled "Jeddah Season", a weeks-long entertainment and cultural festival in the Red Sea port city, as part of measures to curb the cor...

A 21-year-old student who arrived here two days ago from Ireland has tested positive for coronavirus, taking the number of cases in Tamil Nadu to thre...

Jeddah: Mosques across the Gulf region are being temporarily closed to check spread of coronavirus. Saudi Arabia is the latest country in the region t...

US President Donald Trump has signed into law a sweeping multi-billion emergency aid package to help Americans mitigate the adverse economic impact of...

San Francisco: Twitter on Thursday said it has expanded its safety rules on fake and mischievous coronavirus content that could place people at a high...

New York: US President Donald Trump has unveiled an unprecedented plan to send cash aid directly to most Americans to help them tide over the financia...

The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday rejected economically devastated Venezuela's request for a $5 billion loan to help it cope with the coronav...
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