As the United States pressed Saudi Arabia to end its oil price war with Russia, President Donald Trump gave Saudi leaders an ultimatum.

COVID-19 is expected to cause global energy emissions to fall a record eight percent this year due to an unprecedented drop in demand for coal, oil and gas, the International Energy Agency said yesterday.

The top US spy agency says for the first time that the American intelligence community believes the Covid-19 virus that originated in China was not manmade or genetically modified.

The drastic improvement in air quality in large parts of northern India due to the ongoing lockdown induced by the Covid-19 outbreak has produced a clear view of the majestic snow-capped Gangotri peaks of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand, even from a distance of about 200 kilometres.

A total of 453 Bangladeshi nationals return home from India and Oman on two separate special flights.

President Donald Trump has said he believes China’s handling of the coronavirus is proof that Beijing “will do anything they can” to make him lose his re-election bid in November.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says that the Tokyo Olympics cannot take place next year unless the coronavirus pandemic is contained, as the city’s governor called for an extension of the nationwide state of emergency.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s fiancée, Carrie Symonds, gives birth to a baby boy at a London hospital.

Hillary Clinton endorsed Joe Biden’s White House bid on Tuesday, saying the United States needs a “real president” and not just “somebody who

A suicide bomber killed at least three people and wounded 15 others after detonating explosives near a military outpost in Kabul yesterday, an official confirmed.

The UN Security Council plans to call for a 90-day “humanitarian pause” in conflicts worldwide as part of the ongoing struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a draft resolution obtained by AFP Tuesday.

A US government panel yesterday called for India to be put on a religious freedom blacklist over a “drastic” downturn under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, triggering a sharp rebuttal from New Delhi.

More than 217,439 people have died worldwide since the epidemic surfaced in China in December, according to an AFP tally at 1100 GMT

Some 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, representing nearly half of the global labour force, are in immediate danger of losing their livelihoods due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said yesterday.

The coronavirus lockdown could lead to a 20% surge in domestic violence as victims remain trapped at home with their abusers, the United Nations predicted on Tuesday, warning the pandemic will have a “catastrophic impact” on women.

A fire at a warehouse in South Korea killed 25 people yesterday, it was reported, while “all necessary” resources were being mobilised to save

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s partner Carrie Symonds on Wednesday gave birth to a “healthy baby boy” in a London hospital, a

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls on governments to systematically include migrants, irrespective of legal status, in their programmes and policies aiming to address the Covid-19 pandemic.

Vietnam has rejected China’s claims over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes in the East Sea and reasserted that both groups of islands are under Vietnam’s sovereignty.

Some 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, representing nearly half of the global labour force, are in immediate danger of losing their livelihoods due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Labour Organization (ILO) says.