Experts yesterday dismissed as reckless and irresponsible US President Donald Trump’s suggestion of injecting disinfectant to treat patients with Covid-19 as global death toll crossed 190,000.

The US death toll from the novel coronavirus reaches 50,000, having doubled in 10 days, according to a Reuters tally.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday said the coronavirus could give some countries an excuse to adopt repressive measures for reasons unrelated to the pandemic as he warned that the outbreak risks becoming a human rights crisis.

Trader He Ximing in the Chinese city of Wuhan says he has no idea how or where he caught the coronavirus or why repeated nucleic acid tests showed he didn’t have it.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief yesterday warned the US of a “decisive response” after President Donald Trump said he ordered the US Navy to destroy Iranian boats that harass American ships in the Gulf.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday it was up to Israel whether to annex parts of the West Bank and said that Washington would offer its views privately to Israel’s new government, drawing a warning from Palestinians who vowed not to “stand handcuffed” if Israel formally took their land.

The death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 184,268 yesterday, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University yesterday at

South Asia’s coronavirus infections have crossed 37,000, with more than half in India, official data showed yesterday, complicating the task of governments looking to scale back lockdowns that have destroyed the livelihoods of millions.

The Rolling Stones gives their fans some satisfaction by releasing a new track “Living in a Ghost Town”, part-recorded during the coronavirus lockdown.

The World Health Organization says that Europe’s care homes were the scene of an “unimaginable human tragedy”, with deaths there accounting for 50 percent or more in some countries.

The UN Refugee Agency has expressed deep concerns over the reported failures of some nations to allow entry to some vessels carrying Rohingya refugees recently.

Chancellor Angela Merkel says she is worried that some German states are being “very brisk” in relaxing their social distancing efforts, stressing that the coronavirus pandemic is “still at the beginning”, and calls for a bigger European Union budget to support economic recovery in the bloc.

The United Kingdom’s economy is crumbling under the strain of the coronavirus lockdown and government borrowing is soaring to the highest levels in peacetime history, increasing pressure on the government to set out an exit strategy.

Two asylum-seekers on the Greek island of Lesbos were shot and injured after apparently violating coronavirus quarantine rules, officials says.

Taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to erode human rights would be unacceptable, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday, unveiling a new report on the issue.

The World Health Organization warns that the coronavirus crisis will not end any time soon, with many countries only in the early stages of the fight, as the global death toll surpassed 180,000.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards announced they had successfully launched the country’s first military satellite yesterday, at a time of fresh tensions

Last year was the hottest in history across Europe as temperature records were shattered by a series of extreme heatwaves across the continent,

US President Donald Trump wished North Korea’s Kim Jong Un “well” on Tuesday but stopped short of directly commenting on the reclusive

A malaria drug widely touted as a potential cure for COVID-19 showed no benefit against the disease over standard care -- and was in fact associated with more deaths, the biggest study of its kind showed Tuesday.