US orders first shutdown of website over coronavirus fraud
The US Department of Justice announced Sunday it had shut down a website claiming to sell a coronavirus vaccine, in its first act of...
US Secretary of State Pompeo visits Kabul amid multiple crises
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in the Afghan capital Monday amid an ongoing political crisis, a raging Taliban insurgency and rising coronavirus...
Coronavirus: 80 cities across India go into lockdown
Eighty cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bengaluru are going into complete lockdown this month as India fights to contain the spread of...
Queen’s aide ’tests positive for coronavirus
The aide reportedly fell ill and tested positive last week, and Royal Household staff who had contact with the person have been ordered to...
Virus deaths surge past 13,000 as one billion confined to homes
Nearly one billion people around the world were confined to their homes on Sunday, as the coronavirus death toll crossed 13,000 and factories were...
Italy shuts factories as daily toll nears 800
Italy on Saturday shut all non-essential factories after recording another record coronavirus toll that brought its fatalities to 4,825 - over a third of...
WHO warns youths not invulnerable to Covid-19 as global fatalities sweep...
Young people are not immune from coronavirus and must avoid socialising and communicating it to older, more vulnerable people, the World Health Organization (WHO)...
Italy virus toll tops 4,000, New York joins California in lockdown
The grim toll of coronavirus deaths in Italy, the world's worst-hit nation, surged past 4,000 on Friday as New York and other US states...
North Korea fires two ‘ballistic missiles’ into sea: Seoul
North Korea on Saturday fired two projectiles presumed to be short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast, Seoul's military said.
The projectiles...
Virus deaths pass 10,000 as California shuts down
More than 10,000 people have now died in a coronaviruspandemic that has swept from China throughout the world, forcing the confinement of tens of...
