US President Donald Trump vows to defeat the “radical left,” in an Independence Day speech at the White House that condemned recent protests against monuments to historical figures as attempts to destroy the United States.

Kanye West, the entertainment mogul who urges listeners in one song to "reach for the stars, so if you fall, you land on a cloud," claimed Saturday he is challenging Donald Trump for the US presidency in 2020.

Deep floodwaters and the risk of more mudslides that left about 20 people confirmed or presumed dead hampered search and rescue operations on Sunday in southern Japan, including at elderly home facilities where more than a dozen perished and scores are still stranded.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said he tested positive for Covid-19, days after holding high-profile meetings including one with US special representative on Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad in Islamabad.

Russia welcomed a pledge of unity between Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas against Israel’s West Bank annexation plans. In a rare joint press

Canada on Friday suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong to protest the tough new national security law China has enacted in the financial

North Korea does “not feel any need” to resume talks with Washington, a senior diplomat for the country said yesterday, days after Seoul called for a

Britain’s finance minister urged people Saturday to “eat out to help out” the economy claw its way from a historic decline sparked by the coronavirus crisis.

Iran will retaliate against any country that carries out cyber attacks on its nuclear sites, the head of civilian defence said, after a fire at its Natanz plant which some Iranian officials said may have been caused by cyber sabotage.

Books written by prominent Hong Kong democracy activists have started to disappear from the city’s libraries, online records show, days after Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the finance hub.

Canada’s ethics watchdog said Friday he has launched an investigation into Justin Trudeau, after a controversial contract to manage a major government program was awarded to a charity with links to the prime minister’s family.

The genetic variation of the novel coronavirus that dominates the world today infects human cells more readily than the original that emerged in China, according to a new study published in the journal Cell.

President Donald Trump on Friday accused “angry mobs” of trying to erase history with efforts to remove or rethink monuments to US historical figures and used a speech at Mount Rushmore to paint himself as a bulwark against left-wing extremism.

Dr Farzana Hussain, a British-Bangladeshi general practitioner and a staff member of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, is among the health professionals who have been portrayed on billboards across London to mark the 72nd anniversary of the NHS.

In another suspected case of brutality on an animal, a five-year-old elephant, which was found with a fractured jaw, died in a forest in India’s southern state of Kerala last night.

Two more foreign airlines -- Malindo Air, a Malaysian premium airline and Mihin Lanka, a low-cost airline owned by the Sri Lankan government -- have received permission from the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) to resume flights from Dhaka on a limited scale.

Britain will end coronavirus quarantines for people arriving in England from more than 50 countries, including Germany, France, Spain and Italy -- but not the United States -- the government has said.

National flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines has cancelled flight operations on all international routes except for Dubai, Abu Dhabi and London till July 30, due to Covid-19 pandemic.

The cast of Michael Bay’s pandemic-themed movie, Songbird, can take a breather for a while, as the movie has been issued a “do not work” order from the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA).

France’s new prime minister, Jean Castex, has warned that the coronavirus pandemic was not over yet and an economic crisis was already making itself felt, as he took the helm of President Emmanuel Macron’s government.