World

Sunday 29/March/2020 15:07 PM

Former French minister Patrick Devedjian dies of COVID-19

A close adviser of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and former president of a Parisian administrative district has died from COVID-19, the...

Sunday 29/March/2020 15:03 PM

Russia to close border amid virus crisis

MOSCOW: Russia is going to suspend border crossings via automobile, railway, pedestrian and other border checkpoints from Monday in a bid to contain the...

Sunday 29/March/2020 14:58 PM

Mali election underway despite coronavirus fears

Malians headed to the polls Sunday for a long-delayed parliamentary election, less than a day after the country reported its first death from...

Sunday 29/March/2020 14:21 PM

India advises states to curtail mass migration amid lockdown

India's effort to contain the coronavirus pandemic has gone into disarray after thousands of migrant workers started flouting lockdown rules to head to...

Sunday 29/March/2020 14:18 PM

Trump gives up quarantine on New York, CDC issues travel advisory over COVID-19

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday he asked the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue travel advisory for the...

Saturday 28/March/2020 21:58 PM

Indian PM sets up emergency relief fund for COVID-19 fight

New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced setting up of an emergency relief fund to fight the outbreak of novel coronavirus in...

Saturday 28/March/2020 17:45 PM

India: Police under fire for using violence to enforce coronavirus lockdown

Authorities in India have come under fire after videos surfaced on social media showing officers hitting and demeaning people on the street to enforce the...

Saturday 28/March/2020 17:41 PM

French PM warns of 'extremely high' wave of coronavirus epidemic in Paris region

PARIS: French Prime Minister Edouard Phillipe on Friday warned of an "extremely high" wave of the coronavirus epidemic that will sweep Paris and...

Saturday 28/March/2020 17:34 PM

S Korea reports 146 more COVID-19 cases, 9,478 in total

SEOUL: South Korea reported 146 more cases of the COVID-19 compared to 24 hours ago as of midnight Saturday local time, raising the total number of...

Saturday 28/March/2020 17:31 PM

COVID-19 cases exceed 600,000 worldwide: Johns Hopkins University

WASHINGTON: The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has exceeded 600,000, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Systems...