Russia has called on the United States to make a “positive” proposal as the powers open talks on a major disarmament treaty, warning that US insistence on including China could scuttle efforts.

Protesters were set to take to the streets across the United States again yesterday one day after the funeral of George Floyd, whose death in police custody has ignited the biggest surge of anti-racism activism since the civil rights era of the 1960s.

Five suspected rebels were killed yesterday in a dawn firefight with hundreds of troops in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials said, as New Delhi

Boko Haram gunman killed at least 69 people and razed a village to the ground in northern Nigeria’s Borno state on Tuesday afternoon, three sources

China has removed pangolin parts from its official list of traditional medicines, state media reported, days after increasing legal protections on the

Population-wide face mask use could push COVID-19 transmission down to controllable levels for national epidemics, and could prevent further waves of the pandemic disease when combined with lockdowns, according to a British study yesterday.

South Asian coronavirus cases have increased at the fastest rate globally in the past week, as the region becomes one of the latest pandemic hot spots.

A Swedish prosecutor closed the case of the 1986 assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme yesterday+, accusing an insurance company graphic designer who died 20 years ago of the country’s most notorious unsolved crime.

Thousands of people have called for a statue of 19th century British imperialist Cecil Rhodes to be removed from an Oxford University college, as debate raged over the removal of other monuments to the nation’s colonial past.

A Bangladeshi man has been found dead at a water pumpkin farm at Jalan Ara Kuda in Tasek Gelugor, Penang, Malaysia.

Anti-racism protesters in Virginia tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus on Tuesday night in Byrd Park in Richmond, then draped it in a burning flag and dumped it in a lake, images of the incident posted on social media showed.

The EU’s chief diplomat says he has assured China’s foreign minister the bloc does not want a “cold war”, as it accuses Beijing of waging a coronavirus disinformation campaign.

Considered a Hollywood classic, Civil War epic “Gone with the Wind” has been taken off HBO Max following calls for it to be removed from the US streaming service.

Global economic growth could rebound next year -- but the number of people living in extreme poverty is expected to remain unchanged after a huge surge this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank warns.

Population-wide facemask use could push Covid-19 transmission down to controllable levels for national epidemics and could prevent further waves of the pandemic disease when combined with lockdowns, according to a UK study.

Airlines are set to lose $84 billion as the coronavirus pandemic reduces revenue by half to mark the worst year in the sector’s history, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) forecasts.

The toppling of a statue of a 17th century slave trader in the English port city of Bristol was hailed by some as a long-overdue reckoning with Britain’s imperalist past and denounced by others as a criminal act.

The construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya is set to begin today when the first bricks will be laid for its foundation, according to a spokesperson

The foreign ministry in Berlin appointed a married couple to share the ambassador’s job in Slovenia, an unprecedented arrangement for Germany that

The northern segment of the Great Wall of China was built not to block invading armies but rather to monitor civilian movement, an Israeli