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Nathan Law is Hong Kongs youngest ever lawmaker. (AFP)

'The world should stand up to China over Hong Kong'

Pro-democracy activist Nathan Law explains how Hong Kong's fate shows China's true authoritarianism

3 July 2020 10:11 AM IST

Members of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis gather for a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol on June 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. (AFP)

Climate battles are having their day in court

As lawsuits for climate go up, lawyers are getting creative using new legal arguments to challenge companies and...

3 July 2020 9:33 AM IST

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a politburo meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea Thursday, June 2, 2020. (AP)

Kim signals North Korea to keep borders closed against virus

Pyongyang insists it has not had a single case of COVID-19, while the disease has swept the world infecting more than...

3 July 2020 9:15 AM IST

Shubham Mani Tripathi. (via Facebook)

UNESCO Director-General condemns killing of journalist in Uttar...

Shubham Mani Tripathi was shot dead by two assailants while riding his motorbike back home in Unnao district of Uttar...

2 July 2020 3:56 PM IST

This handout from the Myanmar Fire Services Department taken and released on July 2, 2020 shows rescuers attempting to locate survivors after a landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant, Kachin state. (AFP)

113 dead in Myanmar's jade mine landslide

Dozens of low-paid migrant workers die each year while working in the country's highly lucrative but poorly regulated...

2 July 2020 1:14 PM IST

Representational Image. (AFP)

Singaporean charged for racist tweets against Indian migrants

If found guilty, the accused may be punished with a jail term of up to three years, fined, or both

2 July 2020 12:54 PM IST

Protesters chant slogans and gesture during a rally against a new national security law in Hong Kong on July 1, 2020, on the 23rd anniversary of the citys handover from Britain to China. (AFP)

Australia considering to provide 'safe haven' for Hong Kongers

China's parliament passed the controversial national security law for Hong Kong on Tuesday against disapproval from...

2 July 2020 10:45 AM IST

Shoppers walk around Garden State Plaza in Paramus, N.J., as New Jerseys indoor shopping malls reopened Monday from their COVID-19 pause.(AP)

US reports more than 50,000 new coronavirus cases in single day

President Donald Trump reiterated his belief that the contagion will 'at some point... sort of just disappear, I hope'

2 July 2020 9:13 AM IST

New Zealand Health Minister David Clark, center, flanked by Cabinet colleagues Grant Robertson, left, and Kris Faafoi arrives at a press conference where he announced his resignationat parliament in Wellington, New Zealand Thursday, July 2, 2020. (AP)

New Zealand's health minister resigns after virus blunders

'It is essential our health leadership has the confidence of the New Zealand public,' PM Jacinda Ardern said in a...

2 July 2020 8:51 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin shows his passport to a member of a local electoral commission as he arrives to cast his ballot in a nationwide vote on constitutional reforms at a polling station in Moscow on July 1, 2020. (AFP)

Putin could stay in power till 2036 as per the new constitution...

In a seven day long voting, Russians overwhelmingly approved the package for constitutional changes put forward by...

2 July 2020 8:37 AM IST

Remdesivir, developed by Gilead Sciences, is the first drug approved by licensing authorities in the US to treat COVID-19. AP Photo

US hoards global stock of COVID-19 drug remdesivir

The Trump administration has now bought more than 5,00,000 doses, the entire batch produced for July and 90% of August...

1 July 2020 6:46 PM IST

Clockwise from top left, Simone Ngalula, Monique Bitu Bingi, Lea Tavares Mujinga, Noelle Verbeeken and Marie-Jose Loshi pose for a group photo during an interview. These five women who were taken from their families as children in Belgian Congo and placed in a religious mission run by Catholic nuns have filed a lawsuit seeking reparations from Belgium. (AP)

Once taken away from their African mothers, these women now demand...

Thousands of biracial children were taken away and raised in state institutions to ensure separation between races...

1 July 2020 4:16 PM IST