The central Italian region of Lazio, fringing the capital Rome, has asked its large Bangladeshi community to undergo “blanket testing” for the coronavirus following a recent increase in the number of infections.

Global coronavirus cases exceeded 11 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, marking another milestone in the spread of the disease that has killed more than half a million people in seven months.

A Saudi consulate worker in Istanbul has told a Turkish court he had been asked to light a tandoor oven less than an hour after Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the building where he was killed.

President Emmanuel Macron has named Jean Castex, a top civil servant and local mayor who orchestrated France's coronavirus lockdown exit strategy, as his new prime minister as he acted to reinvent his administration and win back voters.

The Drug Controller General of India has approved pharmaceutical firm Zydus Cadila to start Phase I and Phase II human clinical trials of its Covid-19

Slightly higher levels of radioactivity detected in northern Europe last week are likely linked to a nuclear reactor, the UN nuclear watchdog said

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday named a senior bureaucrat to replace Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, whose government resigned after

The United States posted a record 53,000 new coronavirus cases as the deadly pandemic accelerated across the Americas, but its slowdown in Europe led Britain to announce yesterday the first exemptions to its quarantine rules.

Twenty Saudi suspects including two former aides to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman went on trial in absentia in Turkey yesterday, accused of killing and dismembering journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing troops during a surprise visit to a forward post in Ladakh yesterday, said: “The weak can never accomplish peace, the brave do.”

In an apparent dig at China, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that “the era of expansionism is over”.

Two of the biggest Harry Potter fan sites yesterday distanced themselves from author JK Rowling because of her beliefs on transgender issues, calling them at odds with the message of empowerment in her best-selling books.

Prince Andrew is "bewildered" by claims he is not cooperating with the US investigation into the alleged sex trafficking of minors by British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, his legal team says.

US President Donald Trump, who has yet to be seen in public wearing a face mask during the coronavirus pandemic, said Wednesday he would have

Amazon forest fires in Brazil increased by 19.5 percent in June compared to the same month last year, making it the worst June in 13 years, authorities

Russians overwhelmingly approved a package of constitutional changes in a nationwide vote, partial results showed Wednesday, allowing President

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has deleted his account on Sina Weibo, China’s alternative to Twitter, an Indian government source and the

broadly agreed to restart the gradual and verifiable troop disengagement from ‘friction points’ in Galwan Valley and Gogra-Hot Springs areas of eastern Ladakh, which got derailed the last time after Chinese soldiers reneged on the pullback agreement, leading to deadly clashes on June 15.

Turkey’s top court yesterday convened to consider whether Istanbul’s emblematic landmark and former church Hagia Sophia can be redesignated as a mosque, a ruling which could inflame tensions with the West.

China yesterday promised to take countermeasures against Britain if it presses ahead with plans to extend citizenship rights to Hong Kongers after Beijing imposed a sweeping security law on the restless financial hub.