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An Afghan security personnel investigates a damaged vehicle carrying employees of Khurshid TV along a roadside, at the site of a bomb blast in Kabul on May 30,2020. (AFP)

Islamic State kills Afghan journalist, technician in bus blast

Taliban and other Islamist insurgents have repeatedly targeted Afghan journalists, killing 15 in 2018, the worst year...

31 May 2020 10:03 AM IST

A protester poses for photos next to a burning police vehicle in Los Angeles. (AP)

Protests over Minneapolis death rage on amid political finger-pointing

Officials blame a tightly controlled group of outsiders, including white supremacists and drug cartel members, for...

31 May 2020 8:35 AM IST

World Health Organization (WHO) sign in Geneva next to their headquarters. (AFP)

Germany says Trump's split from WHO will harm global health

German Health Minister Jens Spahn calls Trump's latest move

30 May 2020 4:08 PM IST

Israeli soldiers patrol roads. (AP)

Israel police kill Palestinian mistaken for carrying weapons

There has been an uptick in violence in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank in recent days

30 May 2020 3:03 PM IST

$Volunteers of the non profit organisation and charity group \Hunger has no Religion\, wearing protective facemask, prepare portions of porridge to distribute to children for breakfast at an underprivileged areas, in Westbury suburb, in Johannesburg. (AFP)$ World

Corona checks affect food deliveries in East Africa

The UN's World Food Programme ships 2,000 tonnes of beans and cooking oil to feed some of Uganda's 1.4 million refugees

30 May 2020 1:42 PM IST

Ali Erbas, the head of Turkeys highest religious authority prays in front of worshippers wearing protective facemasks maintaining the required social distance during the Friday prayer in The Fatih Mosque in Istanbul. (AFP)

Turkish mosques reopen for mass prayers

President Erdogan said many other sites like restaurants and cafes as well as libraries, parks and beaches will reopen...

30 May 2020 11:55 AM IST

Crematorium workers wearing personal protective equipment as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, push a corpse into the oven of its crematorium at Sao Francisco Xavier cemetery, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AFP)

Brazil's COVID-19 death toll surpasses Spain's

Brazil is second in the number of confirmed cases, though trailing far behind the United States which has 1.7 million...

30 May 2020 11:02 AM IST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (AP)

Merkel gives a firm 'no' for Trump's in-person G7 summit

US president Donald Trump had earlier suggested he will host an in-person summit of G7 leaders despite concerns over...

30 May 2020 10:33 AM IST

a notification from Twitter appears on tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump that the social media platform says violated its policy. (AFP)

Trump walks back his incendiary Minneapolis thugs' post

When the looting starts, the shooting starts, Trump had written in a tweet that was quickly flagged by Twitter as ...

30 May 2020 10:03 AM IST

US president Donald Trump. (AP)

US to cut all ties with World Health Organization over virus

Trump accuse Chinese officials ignored their reporting obligations to the WHO and pressured the agency to mislead the...

30 May 2020 9:08 AM IST

The twitter page of US President Donald Trumps is displayed on a mobile phone. (AFP)

Twitter flags Trump's tweet again; says it violated rules about...

The move came after Trump tweeted that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" in reference to the ongoing unrest...

29 May 2020 4:01 PM IST

Ethiopian Jewish immigrants making their Aliyah (Immigration to Israel) in protective gear amid the COVID-19 pandemic, wave Israeli flags as they step off a plane at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, east of Tel Aviv. (AFP)

Israel looks to export its coronavirus coping skills

Covid-19 patients equipped with "oximeters" are contacted twice daily by medical teams who ask them to report their data

29 May 2020 3:32 PM IST