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Pakistans former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. (AFP)

Two more corruption cases against Nawaz Sharif

Five corruption cases have been launched against the former Pakistan PM since his ouster from the office by the Supreme...

16 May 2020 10:49 AM IST

US president Donald Trump. (AP)

Trump administration to restore partial funding to WHO

US will agree to pay up to what China pays in assessed contributions to the WHO, as said in the letter

16 May 2020 10:16 AM IST

Flags of the United Nations and the United States of America are seen in New York City. (AFP)

China calls on US to pay its debts to the United Nations

US, meant to pay 27.89% of the peacekeeping budget in UN, cut it to 25% in 2017 and now runs up an annual shortfall of...

16 May 2020 9:35 AM IST

Brazils outgoing Health Minister Nelson Teich gives a thumbs up before a news conference at the Health Ministry headquarters in Brasilia. (AP)

Brazil's health minister resigns after one month on the job

Bolsonaro had earlier fired Teich's predecessor, Mandetta, on April 16, after disagreements over efforts to contain the...

16 May 2020 9:09 AM IST

Children wash their hands at the Saint-Tronc Castelroc primary school in Marseille, southern France. (AP)

US gives doctors guidance on how to spot rare COVID-linked syndrome in...

The guidance follows several reports of the syndrome in France, Italy, Spain and Britain and more than 100 cases in the...

15 May 2020 3:23 PM IST

Medical workers in protective suits carry the body of Ibrahim Hassan, 56, before he is buried in Mogadishu, Somalia.(AP)

Years of conflict leave Somalia ill-equipped to fight the virus

The official count of cases is now above 1,200, but no one really knows how many cases of COVID-19 it has so far

15 May 2020 1:57 PM IST

People have lunch at a restaurant along the shoreline as stage 1 of the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions begin in Sydney. (AP)

Australians emerge from coronavirus lockdown to beers and lattes

Country's second most populous state reported a total of 29 new cases on Friday, a bump up from the recent daily average...

15 May 2020 1:38 PM IST

Afghan and foreign security personnel stand guard in front of a hospital after gunmen attacked, in Kabul. (AP)

US blames Islamic State on Kabul maternity hospital attack

Afghan president orders military to switch to offensive mode against the Taliban following the hospital attack and...

15 May 2020 12:18 PM IST

Workers from the Iztapalapa government talk to people trying to enter the cemetery to explain that only are allow two persons at a time outside Pantheon of San Lorenzo Tezonco in Mexico City. (AFP)

Brazil and Mexico report record surge in coronavirus cases

Leaders of both countries receive criticism for intensified attempts to reopen their economies

15 May 2020 11:56 AM IST

A health worker from an aid organization walks wearing a hazmat suit at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh. (AP)

Coronavirus detected in Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh

Two people tests positive for Covid in one of the camps in Bangladesh that accommodates more than one million refugees

15 May 2020 11:28 AM IST

Nurses hold newborn babies wearing face shields, as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (AFP)

Lockdown delays these surrogate babies from reaching their mothers

With the lockdown in place, most parents have only seen their newborns through pictures and video calls with the clinic

15 May 2020 10:30 AM IST

Pro-Tibetan protestors hold picures of Gendun Cheokyi Nyima (The Panchen Lama) during a demonstration outside the Chinese consulate in Barcelona. (AFP)

US urges China to release Panchen Lama

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the second highest spiritual authority in Tibetan Buddhism after Dalai Lama, is world's youngest...

15 May 2020 10:04 AM IST