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Medical staff prepare to take a COVID-19 tests at a drive through community based assessment centre in Christchurch, New Zealand. (AP)World
Puzzling New Zealand virus outbreak grows to 17 cases

Lockdown in Auckland could be extended well beyond an initial three days as the source of new infections continues to...

13 Aug 2020 11:55 AM IST

Smoke and flames rise after war planes belonging to the Israeli army carried out airstrikes over the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. (AFP)World
Israel launches fresh strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza in retaliation...

Despite a truce last year backed by UN, Egypt and Qatar, the two sides clash sporadically with rockets, mortar fire or...

13 Aug 2020 11:15 AM IST

Police detain an opposition supporter protesting the election results as protesters encounter aggressive police tactics in the capital of Minsk, Belarus. (AP)World
Thousands stage flower protest in Belarus as EU weighs sanctions

UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet condemned the detention of 6,000 people, 'including bystanders, as well as...

13 Aug 2020 10:36 AM IST

Suspension of the H1-B visas by the US will cost domestic IT firms Rs 1,200 crore. (AFP Photo)World
Trump administration allows certain exemptions in H-1B, L-1 travel ban

The national interest exemptions are also available to their spouses and depended as well, the State Department said

13 Aug 2020 9:49 AM IST

SWAT team patrol at the site of violence after a mob vandalised a police station and burnt vehicles over a social media post, allegedly by a relative of a Congress MLA, in Bengaluru. (PTI)World
Pakistan lodges protest with India over Bengaluru riots

Islamabad called on the Indian government 'to investigate the incident and take immediate action against perpetrators of...

13 Aug 2020 9:13 AM IST

The sheriff also said that visitors to his office would not be allowed to wear masks for the same reason: \for identification purposes of any individual walking into a lobby.\ (Representational Image:AFP)World
Florida sheriff bans face masks among officers

Mask-wearing is not compulsory in Florida -- only recommended -- but the state is one of the most severe hotspots of the...

13 Aug 2020 8:59 AM IST

New Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse (L) and his wife Shiranthi Rajapaksa (2R) gesture as they arrive for the new cabinet swearing-in ceremony at the Buddhist Temple of the Tooth in the ancient hill capital of Kandy, some 116 km from Colombo on August 12, 2020.(AFP)World
Sri Lanka's new Cabinet ministers include four Rajapaksas

The Cabinet members took oaths in the presence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his elder brother Prime Minister...

12 Aug 2020 4:02 PM IST

US Senator Kamala Harris with her mother, Shyamala. (AP)World
Kamala Harris: What to know about the first Indian-American VP...

Harris' mother, Shyamala Gopalan, is a cancer researcher and civil rights activist from Chennai

12 Aug 2020 2:57 PM IST

US President Donald Trump speaks at a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. (AP)World
Surprised that Biden picked 'disrespectful' Kamala Harris as running...

Commenting on Vice President Mike Pence, Trump said he has been fantastic at his work

12 Aug 2020 2:12 PM IST

Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams leaves the stage after addressing supporters during an election night watch party in Atlanta.(AP)World
If not now, when?: Black women seize political spotlight in US

Black women have long been the heart of the Democratic Party but for decades that allegiance didn't translate to their...

12 Aug 2020 1:08 PM IST

Aerial view showing smoke billowing from a part of the Amazon rainforest reserve north of Sinop, in Mato Grosso State, Brazil. (AFP)World
Amazon fires a 'lie', claims Brazil's Bolsonaro

Satellite data from Brazil's national space agency show number of forest fires in the Amazon rose by 28 percent last...

12 Aug 2020 12:32 PM IST

People hold up copies of the Apple Daily as they protest for press freedom inside a mall in Hong Kong on August 11, 2020, a day after authorities conducted a search of the newspapers headquarters after the companys founder Jimmy Lai was arrested under the new national security law. (AFP)World
Hong Kong residents are mass buying Apple Daily newspaper to support...

The public show of support came a day after police arrested HK's the pro-democracy newspaper's founder, and raided its...

12 Aug 2020 11:47 AM IST

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