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World Health Organization warns virus will get 'worse and worse'

Ghebreyesus noted that many countries are heading towards the wrong direction. After a daily record of 230,000 new COVID-19 cases were reported on Sunday, t...

Roger Stone: Robert Mueller defends indictment over Russian Federation probe

Gen.] Bill Barr, and all those who enable them pose the gravest of threats to the rule of law". Most Republican office-holders have also remained silent on Tr...

Libya Parliament Authorises Egypt Intervention in Principle

The Tobruk parliament said in a statement late Monday that "the Egyptian armed forces have the right to intervene to safeguard Libyan and Egyptian national ...

How to volunteer for a COVID-19 vaccine study

Highlighting an important fact that is not known about Indian vaccines and drugs, Dr Bhargava said -i.e. 60 per cent of the vaccines (like Rubella, measles , p...

Macron: Wearing masks ‘in enclosed public spaces’ to become mandatory in France

He also said there were warning there were signs infections in France were picking up again. Prominent doctors urged the government this week to require masks...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized

Ginsburg, 87, was hospitalized at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore on Tuesday morning and is now "resting comfortably", the statement said. The court announced that...

Iran executes former defense staffer accused of selling secrets to Central Intelligence Agency

Last July, Iran's intelligence ministry said it had arrested 17 people accused of collecting information on the country's nuclear and military sectors for the C...

Trump ally Roger Stone still a criminal, says Mueller

Stone's sentence fell short of an initial seven-to-nine-year recommendation from prosecutors. "The jury ultimately convicted Stone of obstruction of a co...

Hong Kong activists receive strong primary support

The European Union is preparing countermeasures in response to Beijing's new security law on Hong Kong, the EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said on ...

New Zealand opposition leader resigns two months out from election

She is National's fourth leader in three years and its second female leader. He clawed back some support for the National Party, taking it to 38 percent again...

Worm found in tonsil of Japanese woman with sore throat

Identified as a nematode roundworm - one of a number of parasites that can find their way into human hosts who consume raw fish or meat - the worm was black a...

China says Hong Kong opposition primary a 'serious provocation'

The large voter turnout is widely viewed as a symbolic protest vote against the national security law, which Beijing formally adopted for the city after ceremon...

Russian Federation says joint patrol with Turkey hit by bomb attack in Syria

Russian and Turkish soldiers have reportedly been wounded by a roadside bomb that struck their convoy during a joint patrol in Syria's Idlib province, Russia's...

Beijing Imposes Sanctions on Lockheed Martin over Taiwan Missile Deal

China strongly opposes all USA arms sales to democratic Taiwan, saying it is an interference in internal Chinese affairs. Beijing will place unspecified sa...

Canada Border Set To Remain Closed Until At Least August 21

Sources told CTV that both Canadian and US officials have agreed to keep the border closed to all non-essential travellers for another month. However, despite...

Quebec Police Say Girls Who Were Subject of Amber Alert Found Dead

On Sunday, provincial police asked local residents to steer clear of the search area, saying their presence in the area on Saturday evening while acting on a ti...

United Kingdom demands the public wear face coverings in shops

Behavioural expert Professor Susan Michie said any legislation needed to be accompanied with information campaigns on why and how to follow the rules if people ...

Nathan Law: Hong Kong pro-democracy activist reveals he's in London

Despite warnings from the Chinese government and its pro-Beijing followers in Hong Kong, voters in the territory have indicated their desire to see young activi...

England to Make Masks Mandatory

She said this had not been seen with the United Kingdom government's approach to face coverings in England , adding that it was "signalling importance rather t...

Texas Man, 30, Dies After Attending 'COVID Party'

Appleby said. For the latest on COVID-19, readers are encouraged to use online resources from CDC , WHO , and local public health departments . A study from ...

Coronavirus: US reports 3.2 million cases; death toll stands at 134,815

Mexican officials say the number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths has passed 35,000, making it the country with the fourth highest total. Washington , July 14 (S...

Secret royal letters revealed: Australians kept brutal truth from Queen

Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam holds up the original copy of his dismissal letter he received from then Governor-General Sir John Kerr on Nove...

Hong Kong Disneyland closing again due to COVID-19 concerns, reports say

While the outbreak has been spreading through much of the state, it has hit South Florida particularly hard. NSW recorded 13 new cases as of Monday evening,...

Ryanair Dublin Flight Makes Emergency Landing After Explosives Threat

Ryanair said a note was found in one of the plane toilets claiming there were explosives on board. Two Typhoon fighter jets were scrambled from RAF Coningsby...

Flights between Cook Islands and NZ to be confirmed next week

New Zealanders are now advised against all global travel, and any Kiwis returning to the country must quarantine for 14 days. This is a geopolitical imperative....

U.S. Marshals investigate shooting at Portland protest

Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Attorney for Oregon Billy J. Williams said. When asked about further deployment of officers at t...

Fired radio host ‘Karen’ refuses to back down with weird Facebook post

And in a weird twist she ranted about communism. "This is communism. They're taking over these streets!" 'Are they in America?' Ploss asks the bystander, to w...

Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel 'Matty' Moroun dead at 93

He attended University of Detroit Jesuit High School, then the University of Notre Dame. A grandson of Lebanese immigrants, Moroun was born and raised in Detr...

Too many countries headed in wrong direction

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said today nearly 80 per cent coronavirus cases were reported from just 10 countries, and 50 per ce...

Seoul mayor laid to rest

Hours later, a former secretary of Park's said through a representative that she "suffered and hurt alone during the long hours of silence" amid four years of...