A vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus is scheduled to be registered on August 12 in Russia. This would be the first official approval of inoculation against COVID-19 in the world, reports RT N... Read more

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been accused of sending a hit-squad to Canada in order to kill a former Saudi intelligence official. The failed plan to kill Saad al... Read more

Sri Lanka’s powerful Rajapaksa brothers won a majority in the country’s Parliamentary election, securing their dynastic rule. Election Commission results, released on Friday, showed th... Read more

India has reported the biggest single-day fatalities of 904 in the past 24 hours as fresh Covid-19 infections rose by another 56,282 cases to reach nearly 2 million. The Health Ministry says... Read more

A number of Beirut port officials are being placed under house arrest pending an investigation into Tuesday’s huge explosion, Lebanon’s government says. The blast killed at least... Read more

The US government Wednesday announced a new $1 billion investment in a COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Johnson & Johnson, guaranteeing 100 million doses. J&J, via its subsidiary... Read more

At least 100 people were killed and several thousand injured in a massive explosion that rocked Beirut on Tuesday, officials said on Wednesday. An official with the Lebanese Red Cross said a... Read more

Malaysian authorities raided the offices of Al Jazeera in Kuala Lumpur and that of two local broadcasters on Tuesday (Aug 4), as part of a probe over a documentary by the Qatar-based company... Read more

A number of people were wounded when a massive explosion shook Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Tuesday, causing massive destruction. The blast shook several parts of the capital and thick smoke... Read more

The authorities have clamped a curfew in many parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Tuesday ahead of the revocation anniversary of the region’s special status. August 5 is the first annivers... Read more

Brazil on Monday recorded 561 new deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the national death toll to 94,665, according to the country’s health ministry. Meanwhile, tests ha... Read more

Turkey reported 995 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, raising the total diagnosed cases to 233,851, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said. Meanwhile, 19 people died in the past 24 hours, t... Read more

The number of COVID-19 related deaths in the African continent reached 20,288 as the number of COVID-19 cases in the continent reached 957,035 on Monday, the Africa Centers for Disease Contr... Read more

The number of coronavirus cases recorded worldwide has passed 18 million, according to an AFP tally from official sources at 2240 GMT Sunday. At least 18,011,763 cases have now been register... Read more

Russian officials said they are working toward a date of August 10 or earlier for approval of the Covid-19 vaccine, aiming to become the world’s first country to have a novel coronavirus vac... Read more

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged all to pledge to work for inclusive societies and economies that leave no one behind. “If the world is to put human dignity and human ri... Read more

Some top scientists have rejected a conspiracy theory claiming that the novel coronavirus was made in a lab. Earlier in the month, the U.S. State Department released an internal cable from 2... Read more

The United States and Australia on Monday opened top-level talks in which they are expected to seek a common front amid soaring tensions between Washington and Beijing. US Secretary of State... Read more

A court in Malaysia has sentenced former PM Najib Razak to 12 years in jail after finding him guilty on all seven counts in the first of several multi-million dollar corruption trials. Najib... Read more

More than 60 people were killed and dozens injured in a new spell of violence in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region, the United Nations said on Sunday, reports AP. About 500 armed men on Saturda... Read more