Austria expels Russian envoy in what newspaper calls economic spying case

Austria is expelling a Russian diplomat for breaching the Vienna Convention governing diplomats’ privileges and immunities, an Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman has said in what a tabloid newspaper reported as an economic espionage case.
24 August 2020

In China, a Trump wax statue maker laments Covid-19 fallout

Donald Trump is best-selling wax-statue model by Shanghai Maiyi Arts in the United States.
24 August 2020

Court told New Zealand shooter planned to burn down mosques

The white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques had intended to burn down the mosques afterward, a prosecutor says in court while describing two of those praying as making heroic efforts to stop the mass shooting.
24 August 2020

13 dead in crush at Peru party raided over coronavirus violations

At least 13 young people suffocated in a crush during a raid on a nightclub in Peru's capital, where a party was being held in violation of a coronavirus ban on large gatherings, police and press reports said.
24 August 2020

‘Deep state’ slowing Covid vaccine trials: Trump

US President Donald Trump on Saturday accused members of the “deep state” at the Food and Drug Administration, without providing evidence, of
23 August 2020

At least 13 crushed to death as Peru cops raid club party

At least 13 people were crushed to death or asphyxiated as playgoers tried to flee a Lima nightclub raided by police because it was open in violation of
23 August 2020

Local virus outbreak in Myanmar sparks fears for Rohingyas

Rohingya in Myanmar’s conflict-wracked Rakhine state expressed fears yesterday of a coronavirus outbreak reaching their overcrowded camps, after a
23 August 2020

Pakistan denies sheltering fugitive Dawood Ibrahim

The Pakistan government has released a statement yesterday over the media reports which claimed Dawood was being sheltered in the country by
23 August 2020

‘Trump has no principles’

Donald Trump’s older sister described the US president as cruel and a liar whose lack of principles meant he could not be trusted, according to secretly made recordings published Saturday.
23 August 2020

Thousands flee California fires

Nearly two dozen massive wildfires continued to ravage parts of California, fueled by high temperatures and ongoing lightning strikes, including 100 that hit on Friday, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) said.
23 August 2020

Belarus protesters flood into Minsk as army issues warning

Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have packed Minsk’s streets as the army waded into the Belarus political crisis, warning that the military rather than police would respond to opposition unrest near the city’s national memorials.
23 August 2020

Maduro says Venezuela buying Iranian missiles ‘a good idea’

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said it would be a “good idea” to look into buying missiles from Iran, a day after Colombia said Venezuela was considering such a plan amid growing ties between Caracas and Tehran.
23 August 2020

US House approves $25 bn for postal service amid voting dispute

The US House of Representatives passed a bill Saturday to give the postal service a $25 billion infusion and halt changes Democrats said threatened the millions of mail-in ballots expected in November’s presidential election.
23 August 2020

Breast milk an unlikely source of transmission

Transmission of the novel coronavirus to infants through breast milk appears unlikely, a new study indicates. Researchers analyzed 64 breast milk
22 August 2020

New questions about remdesivir’s efficacy

A new study is raising fresh questions about the efficacy of Gilead Sciences Inc’s anti-viral medication remdesivir in Covid-19 patients. A randomized,
22 August 2020

Kremlin critic Navalny ‘stable’ after landing in Germany

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is in a stable condition after arriving in Berlin by air ambulance yesterday following a suspected poisoning,
22 August 2020

California wildfires spread

California’s lightning-sparked wildfires more than doubled in size into some of the largest in state history on Friday, with one blaze advancing to within a mile of the University of California, Santa Cruz (USCS).
22 August 2020

Facebook vows to curb hate speech in India

Social media giant Facebook has admitted it has to do better to curb hate speech as it battled a storm over how it handled comments by a member of India’s ruling party who called Muslims traitors.
22 August 2020

‘It’s actually murder’

Corrupt practices around medical safety gear for Covid-19 health workers is tantamount to “murder”, the World Health Organization chief said Friday.
22 August 2020

Maintain indoor humidity to limit airborne coronavirus

Keeping indoor humidity levels between 40% and 60% will help limit airborne transmission of the novel coronavirus by minimizing the presence of
22 August 2020