The coronavirus pandemic should serve as a “wake-up call” to the world which must be more united in responding to the crisis, UN chief Antonio Guterres said yesterday.

Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui and his family members are placed under home quarantine after they went to Budhana town in Uttar Pradesh state from Mumbai to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr, police say.

Felicien Kabuga, one of the last key fugitives wanted over the 1994 Rwandan genocide, is in French custody after a quarter of a century on the run, and now faces likely trial at an international tribunal.

A car bomb attack targeting an Afghan intelligence agency installation in the eastern province of Ghazni killed at least five people on Monday, an official says.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah signed a power-sharing deal yesterday, ending a bitter months-long feud that plunged the country into political crisis.

China faces a potential second wave of coronavirus infections due to a lack of immunity among its population, its government’s senior medical advisor has warned.

More than 250 global artists and writers including rocker Peter Gabriel, director Ken Loach and actor Viggo Mortensen have appealed to Israel to stop the “siege” of Gaza.

Nepal’s police fired live rounds into the air to deter Indian farmers trying to cross the border to harvest their corn amid the coronavirus lockdown,

Democrats in Congress on Saturday launched an investigation into President Donald Trump’s move to oust the State Department’s internal

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 311,959 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last December, according to a tally from

Israel’s parliament swore in its new unity government yesterday led by Prime Minister Netanyahu and his former rival Benny Gantz, ending the longest political crisis in the nation’s history.

India yesterday extended its nationwide coronavirus lockdown for two weeks, as cases exceeded 90,000 and further clashes erupted between police and stranded migrants.

India has extended the countrywide coronavirus-induced lockdown till May 31 and framed new guidelines that largely leave it to states to decide on colour-coding of contagion hotspots and allowing shops and markets, among other economic activities, to resume functioning outside containment zones.

Cyclone Amphan is likely to intensify into a “very severe” cyclonic storm in the next 12 hours and cross coastal areas between Sagar Islands (West Bengal, India) and Hatiya Islands (Bangladesh) during the afternoon/evening of May 20, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said today.

The Chinese ambassador to Israel was found dead in his home north of Tel Aviv on Sunday, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said.

US President Donald Trump says his administration is considering numerous proposals about the World Health Organization, including one in which Washington would pay about 10% of its former level.

At least 30 Indian migrant workers were killed yesterday in road accidents as they tried to return to their home villages during a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, officials said.

Beaches in France and Italy opened yesterday and football fans awaited the return of major league action with Germany’s Bundesliga set to kick off as global coronavirus cases topped 4.5 million mark.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 307,321 people since the outbreak first emerged last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT yesterday.

Jordan’s king warned Israel of a “massive conflict” if it proceeds with plans to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank, as European Union foreign ministers agreed to step up diplomatic efforts to try to head off such a move.