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Tokyo: Hokkaido island in Japan has reported 135 fresh COVID-19 cases within 26 days of the lifting of the lockdown in the country. With 38 new cases reported on Tuesday...

Antiviral drug Remdesivir has shown positive results in the treatment of COVID-19 patients, US-based pharma company Gilead Sciences has said. In its third phase of clinical trial, a 5-day dosage...

Washington: US president Donald Trump and his official Twitter handle, The White House, have ‘socially distanced’ themselves from Narendra Modi by unfollowing the Indian Prime Minister on Twitter. The reason...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s fiancee, Carrie Symonds, has given birth to a baby boy, Downing Street said on Wednesday. Both mother and child are doing well. The boy was...

Hong Kong: While the pandemic is bringing new COVID warriors to the fore, a group in Hong Kong city  was found contributing to the most selfless cause of saving an...

North Korea is the most isolated nation in the world. Neither information nor people can flow in and out of the communist state easily. As its supreme leader Kim Jong...

Tokyo: The postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be cancelled if the coronavirus pandemic isn’t brought under control by next year, the organising committee’s president has said. The pandemic has already...

Seoul: Even as speculation mounts over the health of North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un, South Korea reiterated that he is “alive and well.” “Our government position is firm,”...

London: The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted economies worldwide. It has become difficult for several companies to sustain their business. To cope with the crisis, Tata Steel in the UK is...

Seoul: Is North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un dead? Or are images of his ‘funeral’, which have gone viral on social media on Saturday, photoshopped? News of Kim’s ill...