India has extended suspension of scheduled international passenger flights in the country till July 15 due to the outbreak of the Covid-19.

South Korea has added Gilead's anti-viral drug remdesivir to its coronavirus treatment guidelines in its first revision of recommendations since the outbreak began and urged caution in the use of the steroid therapy dexamethasone.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan faced a growing backlash Thursday after he said former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been "martyred".

The governor of Texas temporarily halts the state’s reopening yesterday as COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations surged and the country set a new record for a one-day increase in cases.

The outbreak of Covid-19 and subsequent pandemic has led to an alarming uptick in authoritarian behavior by governments across the globe, who are using the crisis to silence critics, an open letter signed by more than 500 former world leaders and Nobel Laureates claims.

Pakistan International Airlines yesterday said it had grounded almost a third of its pilots for holding fake or dubious licences, a month after one of its planes crashed into houses killing 98 people.

Japan has scrapped the deployment of a multibillion-dollar US anti-missile system, the government confirmed yesterday, days after saying the programme had been suspended.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought to recruit hackers at conferences in Europe and Asia and conspired with members of hacking groups - including LulzSec and “Anonymous” - to obtain government secrets, the United States Justice Department has said.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo indicated that Israel had the US green light to annex Palestinian land, amid wide criticism of the Jewish state’s plans.

An influential foundation focused on preparation and response to epidemics that is backing nine potential coronavirus vaccines has identified manufacturers with capacity to produce four billion doses a year, the group’s top manufacturing expert told Reuters.

China appears to have added new structures near the site of a deadly border clash with India in the western Himalayas, fresh satellite pictures show, heightening concerns about further flare-ups between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

Pine trees are bursting into flames. Boggy peatlands are tinderbox dry. And towns in northern Russia are sweltering under conditions more typical of the tropics.

The global terror financing watchdog, FATF, on Wednesday decided to keep Pakistan in the “Grey List” as it has failed to check flow of money to terror groups like the LeT and the JeM, officials said.

France and Germany express their backing for the World Health Organization in fighting the coronavirus on Thursday, with Germany saying it will contribute some half billion euros in funding for the UN agency this year.

With 3,788 fresh cases, Delhi’s coronavirus tally has risen to over 70,000 as it became the country’s worst-hit city, overtaking Mumbai, the country’s financial hub.

Bangladesh has joined the United Nations “Alliance for Poverty Eradication”, which was formed to support actions geared towards poverty eradication and implementation of the SDGs.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has suspended plans for military action against the South, state media reported yesterday, in an apparent sudden

A plane crash which killed 97 people in Pakistan last month was because of human error by the pilots, who were discussing the coronavirus crisis

A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck southern Mexico on Tuesday, killing six people, sending hundreds fleeing from their homes and forcing the

The United Nations and the Arab League yesterday made a joint appeal for Israel to abandon its plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.