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Merlion park in Singapore. (AFP)

Singapore deports 10 Indians, bars their re-entry for violating...

The Indian nationals, holding student or work passes, were caught having a social gathering at a rented apartment on May...

13 July 2020 4:12 PM IST

Sam Brownback, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, departing after speaking during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, DC.(AFP)

China hits top US officials with retaliatory sanctions over Uighur row

Human rights groups say China has rounded over one million Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang in a vast...

13 July 2020 3:53 PM IST

JuD chief Hafiz Saeed being produced at a court in Lahore. (PTI)

Pakistan restores bank accounts of Mumbai terror attack accused Hafiz...

Saeed's bank accounts were frozen by the Pakistani government complying with the UNSC resolution

13 July 2020 2:38 PM IST

Polish President Andrzej Duda after addressing supporters as exit poll results were announced during the presidential election in Pultusk, Poland. (AFP)

President Andrzej Duda wins Polish election by slight margin

A close ally of Trump, Duda has vowed to tighten restrictive laws against abortion and has campaigned against 'LGBT...

13 July 2020 2:36 PM IST

Zindzi Mandela. (AFP)

Mandela's daughter Zindzi dies in South Africa

Zindzi is the youngest daughter of S.Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela, and was ambassador to Denmark at the...

13 July 2020 1:55 PM IST

An Egyptian youth, trailed by his friends, gropes a woman crossing the street with her friends in Cairo, Egypt. (AP File Image)

Another #MeToo wave sweeps up Egypt amidst a pandemic

Sexual assault is deep-seated problems in Egypt, where victims must also fight a culture that ties female chastity to...

13 July 2020 1:22 PM IST

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese paramilitary policemen form a line to move sandbags to reinforce a dyke along the banks of Poyang Lake in Poyang County in eastern Chinas Jiangxi Province. (via AP)

China reports 141 dead or missing in flooding since June

Flood damage has been estimated in hundreds of millions of dollars, adding to pressure on an economy deeply impacted by...

13 July 2020 12:51 PM IST

Pope Francis. (AP)

Pope Francis hurt by Turkey's decision to turn Hagia Sophia into a...

'My thoughts go to Istanbul. I think of Santa Sophia and I am very pained,' the Pope said during his weekly blessing in...

13 July 2020 12:17 PM IST

A woman and two children wear masks at a playground, Saturday, July 11, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP)

Ten million kids 'may never return to school' after virus

'For the first time in human history, an entire generation of children globally have had their education disrupted,'...

13 July 2020 10:43 AM IST

Florida sets one-day record with over 15,000 new COVID cases

Florida sets one-day record with over 15,000 new COVID cases

If Florida were a country, it would rank fourth in the world for the most new cases in a day behind the United States,...

13 July 2020 10:30 AM IST

A Mumbai Municipal Corp. worker fumigates a street in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. While 2019 was the worst year on record for global dengue cases, experts fear an even bigger surge is possible because their efforts to combat it were hampered by restrictions imposed during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP)

Dengue prevention efforts worldwide stifled by coronavirus pandemic

With healthcare systems crumbling in countries around the world, experts say they aren't sure how world would be able to...

13 July 2020 9:36 AM IST

File image made from video, Brenton Harrison Tarrant appears in a screen via video link in Christchurch, New Zealand. (via AP)

New Zealand's christchurch gunman to represent himself at sentencing

The Christchurch mosque shootings were a shock to the world, which prompted immediate action for stricter gun laws in...

13 July 2020 8:53 AM IST