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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at his official residence in Tokyo. (AP)

Japan PM Shinzo Abe announces he will resign over health problems

Speculation about the prime minister's health has been swirling for weeks but reached fever pitch in recent days

28 Aug 2020 11:33 AM IST

US President Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech for the Republican Party nomination for reelection during the final day of the Republican National Convention at the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AFP)

Joe Biden will be destroyer of American greatness: Trump

Trump said that Biden and his party repeatedly assailed America as a land of racial, economic, and social injustice

28 Aug 2020 10:55 AM IST

Lara Trump, Jared Kushner, Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Tiffany Trump and Donald Trump Jr. arrive before President Donald Trump speaks from the South Lawn of the White House on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention. (AP)

What virus? At GOP's convention, pandemic is largely ignored

Only few convention speakers made reference to the virus, while others discussed it in the past tense

28 Aug 2020 10:14 AM IST

Opposition activist Nina Baginskaya, 73, center, struggles with police during a Belarusian opposition supporters rally at Independence Square in Minsk, Belarus. (AP)

Fearing persecution, Belarus activists flee to Lithuania

Since the crackdown in Belarus, Lithuania and Poland have eased coronavirus restrictions to allow in people on...

28 Aug 2020 9:30 AM IST

Damaged homes sit among flood water after Hurricane Laura passed through the area August 27, 2020 in Holly Beach, Louisiana.(AFP)

Laura thrashes Louisiana, nearby states face tornado threats

But despite a trail of demolished buildings, a sense of relief prevailed that Laura was not the annihilating menace...

28 Aug 2020 9:03 AM IST

Alexei Navalny. (File)

Russian police launch 'pre-investigation check' into Navalny poisoning

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov had rejected international calls for a transparent investigation into the incident

27 Aug 2020 4:24 PM IST

Rapper Kanye West. (AP File)

Kanye West sues Ohio election head to get on November ballot

West's emergency filing comes days after nearly 15,000 signatures and other paperwork he submitted earlier this month...

27 Aug 2020 3:08 PM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson (C) takes part in an induction session in the gymnasium with year sevens as he visits Castle Rock school, Coalville, central England. (AFP)

Europe is going back to school despite recent virus surge

While the US' back-to-school saga has been politicized and chaotic, European governments have faced less of an uproar

27 Aug 2020 2:52 PM IST

A Los Angeles Unified School District student attends an online class at Boys & Girls Club of Hollywood in Los Angeles. (AP)

A third of world's children affected by lack of access to remote...

The highest number of children affected by region were in South Asia, at least 147 million, according to the report

27 Aug 2020 2:31 PM IST

Sudha Sundari Narayanan (third from left), a software developer from India, was among those sworn in as American citizens. (via Twitter handle @welprich)

Indian who sworn-in as US citizen by Trump didn't know it was being...

Narayanan said she did not have an opinion about Trump's immigration policies and that she found out the ceremony was...

27 Aug 2020 1:36 PM IST

The DF-26B and DF-21D missiles fired Wednesday targeted an area between the southern island province of Hainan and the Paracel Islands.(AP File)

China fired 'carrier killer' missile in disputed sea to warn US:...

Disputes over control of the South China Sea, one of the world's busiest trade routes, are a growing irritant in...

27 Aug 2020 1:07 PM IST

Blasphemy: Trolls flood social media in Pakistan amid virus lockdown

'Blasphemy': Trolls flood social media in Pakistan amid virus lockdown

Activists and social media trackers say there has been a surge in online sectarian attacks, hate speech and cries of...

27 Aug 2020 12:25 PM IST