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People wearing face masks cross a road in Seoul on September 11, 2020. (AFP)

South Korea eases virus curbs in Seoul region

Chuseok is one of the South Korea's biggest holidays with millions travelling to visit family in nation's largest annual...

13 Sept 2020 4:34 PM IST

$Travel restrictions have eviscerated the tourism-reliant economy, while Thais have founded themselves stuck due to quarantine requirements in other countries (Twitter\\@LemanDLR)$ World

With travel limited, plane cafes take off in Thailand

Hungry diners appear even to have missed plane food as they gobble up spaghetti carbonara and beef served on plastic...

13 Sept 2020 3:52 PM IST

Science

Covaxin test on animals show sign of hope

The animal trials were conducted on 20 monkeys in India and three different vaccine candidates were tried on them

13 Sept 2020 3:27 PM IST

Image provided by NOAA shows the formation of Tropical Storm Sally. Tropical Storm Sally has formed off south Florida, becoming the earliest 18th-named tropical storm on record in a busy Atlantic hurricane season. (NOAA via AP)

World

Hurricane Paulette rolls toward Bermuda; Sally threatens Gulf Coast

Paulette is the strongest in terms of winds of six disturbances the center was tracking in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf...

13 Sept 2020 3:20 PM IST

RJD national vice president Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (Photo: PTI)

India

Former union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh passes away at Delhi...

Singh, who had recently resigned from RJD, had fallen critically ill after developing post-COVID complications

13 Sept 2020 2:19 PM IST

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton, left, poses as he is turned over to the Bureau of Immigration at the Joint US Military Assistance Group detention facility in Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon city, Philippines on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. The Philippine president recently pardoned Pemberton in a surprise move that will free him from imprisonment in the 2014 killing of a transgender Filipino woman that sparked anger in the former American colony. (AP)

World

Philippines deports US Marine who killed transgender woman

Presidential spokesman Roque said the pardon may have stemmed from the desire to get access to COVID vaccines being...

13 Sept 2020 1:38 PM IST

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (left) and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. (AFP)

World

Sri Lanka's proposed replacement of 19th Amendment faces resistance...

PM Rajapaksa will be the hardest-hit by the amendment, while his brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa will gain full legal...

13 Sept 2020 1:08 PM IST

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny casting his vote at a polling station during to the Moscow city Duma election in Moscow. - Tests carried out on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny provide clear proof that he was poisoned by a chemical nerve agent, the German government said Wednesday, September 2, 2020, demanding explanations from Moscow. (AFP File)

World

Russians vote in local elections targeted by Kremlin critic Navalny

Navalny had hoped to undermine United Russia's grip on regional power through the election before he fell gravely ill

13 Sept 2020 12:41 PM IST

$Navid Afkari had been found guilty of \voluntary homicide\ for stabbing to death Hossein Torkman, a water department employee, on August 2, 2018, the judiciary said. (Twitter/Navid Afkari)$ World