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Rescue workers evacuate passengers on a boat from a submerged bus due to heavy rain in Paju, South Korea. (AP)World
North Korea also issues flood alert as South reports 16 dead

North Korea is particularly vulnerable to sustained heavy rain as many mountains and hills have long been stripped of...

6 Aug 2020 2:40 PM IST

A visitor, right, disinfects her hands to help curb the spread of the coronavirus before entering the Ryugyong Health Complex in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP)World
North Korea’s first suspected coronavirus case tests ...

The country had declared emergency and locked down its borers after a person was reported to have COVID-19 symptoms

5 Aug 2020 4:44 PM IST

Australian Al Jazeera journalist, reporter/senior producer Drew Ambrose, right, leaves the Bukit Aman police headquarters after being questioned by the Malaysian police over a documentary about the countrys arrests of undocumented migrants, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (AP)World
Malaysian police raid Al Jazeera office over documentary on migrants

Al Jazeera said the raid was -'an attack on press freedom as a whole-' and urged Malaysian authorities to cease the...

5 Aug 2020 10:19 AM IST

US president Donald Trump (left), and Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen. (File Image)World
US announces -'highest level-' visit to Taiwan in decades

The move is sure to infuriate China with relations between the two superpowers at historic lows

5 Aug 2020 9:42 AM IST

Health workers stretch as they take a break from performing COVID19 rapid tests on residents at a parking lot that has been converted into an extension of the Gat Andres Bonifacio Memorial Medical Center in Manila, Philippines. (AP)World
As cases mount, Philippines gives in to health workers-' demand for a...

Medical groups had warned that the country was waging -'a losing battle-' against the coronavirus amid an alarming surge...

3 Aug 2020 1:24 PM IST

Japan has so far escaped the worst of the epidemic, with around 35,200 infections and just over 1,000 deaths since the first case was detected in January. (Representational Image: AFP)World
US Marines account for most of the -'explosive spread-' in Japan-'s...

The region, which also a popular tourist destination, has declared state of emergency following the recent surge

1 Aug 2020 12:50 PM IST

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong. (AP)World
Hong Kong postpones elections by a year citing coronavirus

This comes as a huge blow to Hong Kong-'s democracy supporters as China welcomed the move as -'necessary, reasonable and...

31 July 2020 6:57 PM IST

The woman, who is a Singapore citizen, had arrived in Singapore from India on July 17. (Representational Image: AFP)World
Singapore citizen tests positive for COVID after returning from India

Including four imported cases reported today, Singapore has a total of 51,809 coronavirus recorded till date

30 July 2020 3:31 PM IST

Riot police set up a cordon line during a protest at a shopping mall in Hong Kong. (AP)World
Hong Kong police help pro-democracy hashtag trend by accident

Hong Kong-'s Twitter warriors were quick to pounce, many of them mocking the city-'s police force for helping to make...

30 July 2020 1:25 PM IST

Students wear masks as a preventive measure against coronavirus, at Government Medical College Hospital in Jammu. PTIWorld
145 Indian students stranded in Kyrgyzstan return home in AI special...

All 145 passengers instructed to stay in institutional quarantine for next one week in their hometowns as per central...

30 July 2020 11:04 AM IST

Pedestrians wear face masks in the Kowloon-side Sham Shui Po district of Hong Kong. (AFP)World
4 booked for online posts under Hong Kong’s controversial security...

China, in justifying the new law, says issues such as separatism are a national security concern and, as such, fall...

30 July 2020 10:11 AM IST

A group of plaintiffs and supporters celebrate during a meeting following the court ruling in Hiroshima, western Japan, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. A court has recognized people exposed to radioactive black rain that fell after the U.S. atomic attack on Hiroshima as atomic bomb survivors, ordering the government to provide the same medical benefits it gives other survivors. (AP)World
75 years after -'black rain-', Hiroshima court finally recognizes...

The US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing 140,000 people and almost...

30 July 2020 9:47 AM IST

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