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Dr. Gauden Galea, the World Health Organization (WHO) representative in China, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the WHOs offices in Beijing. (AP)

WHO experts to visit China as part of COVID-19 investigation

The WHO mission is politically sensitive, with the US moving to cut ties with it over allegations the agency is biased...

10 July 2020 2:47 PM IST

A healthcare worker gives a COVID-19 test to a medical staff near Halyk Arena in Almaty. (AFP)

China warns of 'unknown pneumonia' deadlier than COVID-19 in...

This unidentified virus has caused 1,772 deaths in the first six months of 2020, including 628 people in June alone

10 July 2020 1:20 PM IST

Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli(right) (AFP)

Nepal's ruling communist party's meet to decide PM's future deferred...

Demand for PM Oli to resign rises citing his recent anti-India remarks were 'neither politically correct nor...

10 July 2020 12:27 PM IST

US President Donald Trump (R) and North Koreas leader Kim Jong Un (2nd L) signing documents as the North Korean leaders sister Kim Yo Jong (L) looks on at a signing ceremony. (AFP)

Another Kim-Trump summit is unlikely to happen: Kim Yo Jong

Kim's powerful sister says there's no reason for North Korea to 'gift' high-profile meetings to Donald Trump

10 July 2020 11:48 AM IST

People gesture to each other as they walk outside public housing towers that are a hotspot for COVID-19 in Melbourne in Melbourne, Friday, July 10, 2020. (AAP Image via AP)

Australia slashes citizen returns by half as virus surge worsens

Some five million residents of greater Melbourne were ordered into a six-week lockdown this week in an effort to curb a...

10 July 2020 11:19 AM IST

Nepalese Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli. (AP)

Nepal stops transmission of all Indian news channels except...

The development comes after some Indian channels aired reports critical of Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli and his...

10 July 2020 10:18 AM IST

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. WHO promises honest evaluation of how world handled COVID-19. (AFP Photo)

How world handled COVID-19: WHO promises 'honest evaluation' after...

The panel will provide an interim report to an annual meeting of health ministers in November and present a substantive...

10 July 2020 10:02 AM IST

Two men hold up a banner before the start of a news conference outside San Quentin State Prison Thursday, July 9, 2020, in San Quentin, California. (AP)

Virus Politics: Americans divided as US hits new COVID-19 record every...

US reported another single-day virus record on Thursday as well with more than 60,500 COVID-19 cases

10 July 2020 9:53 AM IST

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon speaks during a press conference at Seoul City Hall in Seoul, South Korea Wednesday, July 8, 2020. (AP)

Seoul mayor's death a suicide after #MeToo allegations

He was reported missing by his daughter on Thursday, who said he had been unreachable after leaving a message that...

10 July 2020 8:50 AM IST

File image of Tibetan activist Tenzin Tsundue. (Photo courtesy: Facebook/ Tenzin Tsundue)

Tibet's Independence is India's best security against China, says...

Tibetan activists like Tsundue are urging India to realise what exactly Beijing is up to: Bullying India.

10 July 2020 2:27 AM IST

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon. (AP)

Seoul mayor missing, phone turned off

The mayor has left a verbal message for his daughter, described as sounding like a will, police say

9 July 2020 4:58 PM IST

Foreign tourists carry their surf boards at Kuta beach, Bali, Indonesia on Thursday, July 9, 2020. (AP)

Bali island reopens after 3 months of virus lockdown

The local government had granted automatic visa extensions to more than 7,000 tourists who got stranded in the island...

9 July 2020 3:59 PM IST