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Emergency proves futile as Japan wakes up to 6,009 Coronavirus cases Friday

In view of the 2020 Olympics, Japan tried to minimize the number of coronavirus tests to show the world that Japan was safe to conduct the games, but the misadventure has backfired

Apr 17, 2020

By Nagesh Narayana

No business as usual with China, says Britain; France's Macron too points fingers at China

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab calls for "a very, very deep dive after the event and review of the lessons, including of the outbreak of the virus".

Apr 17, 2020

By Shubhangi Shah

Coronavirus

This 116-year-old grandmother has voted ever since the founding of the Republic of Korea [VIDEO]

Park Myung Soon has taken part in indirect as well as direct election for the post of the president since the formation of Republic of Korea since 1948

Apr 16, 2020

By Suman Priya Mendonca

Saving Joe Biden: Reporting of sex assault charge exposes unashamed liberal bias in US media

The #MeToo campaign has talismanic uses when it can be employed against the right-wing. When the Left is under fire, rape becomes groping!

Apr 16, 2020

By Jacob J

Gangnam smile: North Korean defector wins South Korea's swankiest seat

Thae Yong Ho won one of three constituencies in Seoul's glittering Gangnam district for the main opposition conservative party in Wednesday's parliamentary election

Apr 16, 2020

By Reuters

China may have secretly conducted low-grade nuclear tests: Report

The US State Department has claimed that China may have conducted a low-yield underground nuclear test at its Lop Nur test site, last year

Apr 16, 2020

By Shubhangi Shah

Coronavirus

Wuhan virology lab back in focus after reports of coronavirus escaping from there

US President Donald Trump evades question on discussing Wuhan lab with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping

Apr 16, 2020

By Shubhangi Shah

Coronavirus

Some right-wing politicians in US call coronavirus lockdown unconstitutional

Republican Matt Shea believes that quarantine should be imposed only for the sick and not on healthy, law-biding people

Apr 16, 2020

By Nirmal Narayanan

Coronavirus

Coronavirus: India fast-tracks hydroxychloroquine supplies to UAE, Jordan, Russia

India is also sending shipments of HCQ to the Dominican Republic as well as Ecuador and Uganda

Apr 15, 2020

By Gani Mohamed Waseem

Coronavirus

Trump gets his name printed on 70 million Coronavirus stimulus checks; delivery may get delayed

Around 70 million people will receive the $1,200 coronavirus stimulus checks, under the $2 trillion stimulus package, announced last month

Apr 15, 2020

By Shubhangi Shah

Coronavirus

South Korea holds election amid Coronavirus crisis: Here is how those with high temperature voted

With measures like special booths, different timings for those under quarantine, rules of disinfection and temperature check, South Korea is going for parliament elections today

Apr 15, 2020

By Suman Priya Mendonca

Coronavirus

Former US Labor Secretary shares video, storms social media explaining how Trump ignored Coronavirus threat

former US Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, 73, posted a video claiming that public health was never Trump's priority

Apr 15, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Coronavirus

President Trump halts WHO funding alleging pandemic cover-up to help China

Coronavirus outbreak could have been contained if WHO had called out China's lack of transparency, says Trump.

Apr 15, 2020

By Shubhangi Shah

Coronavirus

UAE extends tourist and visit visas till end of 2020 in wake of coronavirus

UAE government has announced that residency visas and entry permits including visit and tourist visas which have expired after March 1 will remain valid until the end of 2020

Apr 14, 2020

By Gani Mohamed Waseem

Coronavirus

Amid coronavirus pandemic, North Korea fires multiple 'cruise' missiles, escalating tension

North Korea has fired multiple suspected cruise missiles on Tuesday according to South Korean military

Apr 14, 2020

By Vinay B.S.

Coronavirus

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