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Stepan Svetlov is the founder of NEXTA, a Telegram channel with 2.1 million subscribers that helps mobilise protesters and shares photo and video content from the demonstrations. (AFP)World
Young blogger mobilises protest against Belarus dictator

Stepan Svetlov-'s NEXTA Live, a Telegram channel with 2.1 mm subscribers helps mobilise protesters and shares...

29 Aug 2020 9:41 AM IST

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko armed with a Kalashnikov-type rifle near the Palace of Independence in Minsk, Belarus. (AP)World
EU to sanction top Belarus officials, Lukashenko likely to be on the...

Belarus-' opposition says the poll was rigged and the EU, among others, disputes the results

28 Aug 2020 3:36 PM IST

An elderly protester speaks to a policeman holding an old Belarusian national flag in front of riot police blocked Independence Square in Minsk, Belarus. (AP)World
Dozens of Belarus activists are fleeing to Lithuania in fear of...

Since the crackdown in Belarus, Lithuania and Poland have eased coronavirus restrictions to allow in people on...

28 Aug 2020 9:29 AM IST

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. (AFP)World
Russian police launch -'pre-investigation check-' into Navalny...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov had rejected international calls for a transparent investigation into the incident

27 Aug 2020 4:22 PM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson sits in a Year 11 class , during a visit to Castle Rock school on the pupils first day back, in Coalville, East Midlands, England. (AP)World
Virus or not, Europe is bent upon reopening schools

While the US’ back-to-school saga has been politicized and chaotic, European governments have faced less of an uproar

27 Aug 2020 2:49 PM IST

The University of Cambridge on Wednesday confirmed plans to begin trials of a potential new vaccine not only against COVID-19 but all coronaviruses that may spill over from animals to humans in the future. (Representational Image: AP)World
Cambridge University to start trials for one vaccine that can fight...

A vaccine that clears all trials can be delivered pain-free without a needle into the skin through a spring-powered jet...

26 Aug 2020 7:07 PM IST

Beachgoers enjoy a hot day in the sun at a beach in Bormes-les-Mimosas, southern France. (AP File)World
French government defends freedom of topless sunbathing

After cops asked bare-breasted bathers to cover up on a Mediterranean beach, uproar ensued and reached the ears of...

26 Aug 2020 3:45 PM IST

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. (AFP File)World
Kermlin dismisses accusations as clinical tests indicate Navalny was...

Russia has not opened any investigation into the poisoning yet and Peskov says there is -'no pretext-' for this until...

26 Aug 2020 1:39 PM IST

Mansion of the former family home of Maharaja Duleep Singhs son, Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh, has gone on sale with a price tag of GBP 15.5 million, in London. (PTI)World
Former mansion of Maharaja Duleep Singh-'s son goes on sale in London

Duleep Singh was the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire including Lahore in the 19th century until he was exiled to...

24 Aug 2020 2:14 PM IST

Fans celebrate Bayern Munichs victory, Sunday Aug. 23, 2020, in Marseille, southern France, after the Champions League final soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich being played at the Luz stadium in Lisbon, Portugal. (AP)World
Scores arrested as Paris Saint-Germain fans riot after defeat to...

The trouble lasted several hours, as groups of fans threw bottles and fireworks at police, who responded with tear gas...

24 Aug 2020 1:25 PM IST

A man holds a poster with a portrait of Alexei Navalny reading \Navalny was poisoned, we know who is to blame, Alexei you must live\ during an unsanctioned protest in support of Sergei Furgal, the governor of the Khabarovsk region, in Khabarovsk, 6,100 kilometers (3,800 miles) east of Moscow, Russia. (AP)World
Russian dissident Alexei Navalny’s wife, aide visit him in Germany

The comatose Kremlin critic was flown to Germany after doctors determined he was stable enough to be transported for...

24 Aug 2020 10:50 AM IST

Relatives (in white) along with workers (in blue) wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) help to place the body of a person who died from the COVID-19 coronavirus before cremation in a furnace at the Nigambodh Ghat cremation ground, in New Delhi. (AFP)World
World COVID-19 fatalities touch 8 lakhs

More than half the global fatalities have been reported in the hardest-hit United States, Brazil, Mexico and India

23 Aug 2020 12:38 PM IST

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