Joe Biden flayed Donald Trump on Tuesday with accusations the US President has surrendered to a surging pandemic, as the Democrat took his campaign to the Republican stronghold of Georgia one week before the US election.

US police officers shoot three times as many unarmed Black people as unarmed white people relative to their population size, according to a study published Wednesday on what researchers termed a "public health emergency".

Long-term exposure to air pollution may be linked to 15 percent of Covid-19 deaths globally, according to research published yesterday that highlights the health risks posed by greenhouse gas emissions.

China yesterday warned the United States not to “coerce and bully” Sri Lanka ahead of a visit to the strategically-placed island by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The United States yesterday said it had approved a $2.4 billion sale of 100 Harpoon coastal defense systems to Taiwan, defying Beijing’s anger over a $1 billion missile deal last week.

President Donald Trump reveled in one of his signature achievements on Monday at a White House ceremony to celebrate US Senate confirmation of his third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, 6 days before the election.

US President Donald Trump on Monday taunted opponent Joe Biden for forgetting his name and calling him “George”. Biden’s habit of verbal gaffes reemerged on Sunday evening when he struggled to remember Trump’s name as he addressed a virtual concert by TV link.

Hillary Clinton has described another Trump election win as an idea that makes her “literally sick”. The former US secretary of state told Sway, a New York Times Opinion podcast, that she “can’t entertain the idea of [Trump] winning” the 2020 election, which takes place in a week’s time.

Nearly 6,000 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded in the first nine months of the year as heavy fighting between government forces and Taliban insurgents rages on despite efforts to find peace, the United Nations said yesterday.

Israel is set to approve construction of Jewish settler homes in a flashpoint area of the West Bank city of Hebron for the first time since 2002, the anti-occupation group Peace Now said yesterday.

The largest party in Malaysia’s ruling coalition has declared its support for Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, providing some respite for the premier as he faces calls to resign after a failed bid to impose an emergency to tackle the coronavirus.

A bomb blast at a religious seminary in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday killed at least seven people, including children, and wounded dozens, police and hospital officials said.

The US Senate confirmed conservative jurist Amy Coney Barrett as the Supreme Court's newest justice Monday, delivering President Donald Trump a landmark win just eight days before the election.

China yesterday said it would impose sanctions on Lockheed Martin, a Boeing defence division and other US firms involved in arms sales to Taiwan, the

Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga yesterday set a 2050 deadline for the world’s third-largest economy to become carbon neutral, significantly

Air strikes by Syrian regime ally Russia killed 78 fighters from a Turkey-backed rebel group in northwest Syria yesterday, a Britain-based war monitor said.

France urged Arab countries to stop calls for boycotts of French products while President Emmanual Macron vowed the country would never give in to Islamic radicals.

Russia’s coordinated effort to nudge Americans toward voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election caught social media companies flat-footed and remains a stain on the reputation of Facebook in particular.

The Republican-controlled US Senate was expected to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, as the next justice to the Supreme Court, a move that will tilt the country’s highest court further to the right for years to come.

Opponents of Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha yesterday urged him to stop using the monarchy to justify his hold on power and resign, in remarks made to a special session of parliament called by the former junta leader to discuss months of protests.