Category: World News

This image provided by NOAA/NASA shows the Earth’s western hemisphere on May 20, 2018 made by the new GOES-17 satellite, using the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument [NOAA/NASA via AP] Humanity is facing an invasion. In the span of a few months, an invisible outside force we about

Auckland will be locked down for at least three days and some physical distancing restrictions will be reintroduced in the rest of the country [File: Greg Bowker/AFP] New Zealand has announced its first locally transmitted coronavirus infections in more than 100 days, prompting Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to

Storm known as a Derecho lasted several hours as it tore from eastern Nebraska across Iowa and parts of Wisconsin and Illinois [AP] A rare storm with power similar to a hurricane swept across the US Midwest uprooting trees, tossing vehicles, and causing widespread property damage. More than

Many people in Lebanon, and on social media, felt Monday’s announcement by Diab would do little to change the political situation [Mohamed Azakir/Reuters] Angry Lebanese have demanded the removal of what they see as a corrupt ruling class to blame for the country’s woes, adding that the government’s resignation on

Iran’s national flag waves as the Milad telecommunications tower and buildings are seen in Tehran [File: Vahid Salemi/AP] Iranian courts sentenced two men to 10 years each in jail for spying on the country for the United Kingdom, Germany and Israel in separate cases. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili

The flight was repatriating Indians stranded in Dubai due to the novel coronavirus pandemic [Reuters] India’s air safety regulator plans to conduct special audits of airports across the country affected by heavy rain, the watchdog’s chief told the Reuters news agency, days after a plane crash killed 18 people and raised questions about safety. An Air India Express plane with 190 people on board

Pompeo will spend two days in the Czech Republic before moving on to Slovenia, Austria and Poland [Petr David Josek/Pool via Reuters] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has arrived in Prague to begin a five-day visit to central Europe with China’s role in 5G network construction dominating

Bolivia’s government has called in the military, after violence broke out involving protesters who are angry about elections being delayed. Supporters of former President Evo Morales set up roadblocks around the country. Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Some 750,000 Rohingya were forcibly displaced from their homes in Myanmar and crossed the border into Bangladesh [File: Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters] The head of a UN investigative body on Myanmar said Facebook has not released evidence of “serious international crimes”, despite promising to work with investigators looking into abuses

Currently, there is no vaccine to prevent coronavirus disease [Hannah McKay/Reuters] A new coronavirus that emerged in China late last year has spread to at least 188 countries on six continents, with the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring the outbreak of the pathogen a pandemic.  More than 736,000 people

Dozens of people have been treated in hospital for minor injuries after false rumours of a shooting unleashed panic on the main promenade of the French Riviera town of Cannes, according to officials and rescuers. The emergency services counted 44 injured at 4am local time (02:00 GMT) on Tuesday, some

Egyptians queue up to vote outside a polling station for a new Senate in an upper house election [Khaled Desouki/AFP] Egyptians have started voting for the Senate, the upper chamber of Parliament that was revived as part of constitutional amendments approved in a referendum last year, in an

Tikhanovskaya refused to concede her defeat against President Alexander Lukashenko [Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters] The main challenger in Belarus’s disputed presidential election has fled to Lithuania after a second night of street clashes between police and opposition supporters left a protester dead. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who refused to concede her defeat

Ahmed Amarneh’s home, its wooden door leading into cushion-lined rooms, is not the first Palestinian residence in the occupied West Bank to receive a demolition notice from Israel. But it may be the first built inside a cave that Israel has threatened to destroy. Amarneh, a 30-year-old civil engineer, lives

Operation to restore order in the prison complex has been completed, according to state media [File: Tobin Jones/AFP] At least six prisoners were killed and six others wounded in a shoot-out inside a prison in the Somali capital, Mogadishu on Monday. There were conflicting reports of how the

Mike Pompeo used an emergency procedure to ram through arms sales to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Jordan [Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Pool via Reuters] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been cleared of wrongdoing in a disputed arms sale to Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies, according

Editor’s Note: This series is produced in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO). Several countries have reopened their borders and are gradually lifting travel restrictions after months of lockdown to curb the spread of the new coronavirus. Last month, the WHO published new guidelines for the resumption of international

Duterte’s office on Tuesday said the Philippines stands ready to work with Russia on vaccine trials, supply and production [File: Ace Morandante/Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division via AP] Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has lauded Russia’s efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine and is himself willing to participate in trials,

India has stationed more than half a million soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir [File: Dar Yasin/AP Photo] The family of three missing Kashmiris have alleged the trio was killed in a staged operation by the Indian army, bringing back memories of past cases of extrajudicial killings in the Muslim-majority

The talismanic non-violent icon believed to have given the glasses to the seller’s uncle, who worked for British Petroleum in South Africa between 1910 and 1930, said the auction house [File: Sam Panthaky/AFP] A “rare and important” pair of iconic glasses worn by Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen pose for photos during their meeting at the presidential office in Taipei [Taiwan Presidential Office/Handout via Reuters] Taiwan faces an increasingly difficult position as China pressures the democratic island to accept conditions that would

Volunteer hands out copies of Apple Daily in Hong Kong on August 11, 2020 [Isaac Lawrence/ AFP] Hong Kong’s Apple Daily has responded with defiance to the arrest of its owner under a new national security law imposed by Beijing, promising to “fight on” in a front-page headline

Thousands have joined an anti-government demonstration at a university in Thailand, the largest such protest by students, challenging the government and conservative establishment even as royalist rivals held their own rally. About 3,000 to 4,000 protesters chanted “Long live democracy” at Thammasat University on the outskirts of Bangkok on

Worldwide coronavirus cases have surpassed 20 million, with Brazil and Mexico reporting a combined 27,000 infections in just one day. More than 12.2 million have recovered, and almost 734,000 have died from the disease, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally. US President Donald Trump is considering a measure to block

Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai’s news publication, Apple Daily, was raided on Monday after he was arrested by the national security unit [Tyrone Siu/Reuters] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has denounced China for the arrest of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who he called a

Demetria Hester reacts to verdicts of guilty on all twelve counts at the Jeremy Christian trial in Portland [File: Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP] One of the protesters arrested in Portland, Oregon, early Monday is a Black woman who was assaulted by a white supremacist in a high-profile

United States Representative Ilhan Omar faces a competitive challenge in Tuesday’s Democratic primary [File: Marcio Jose Sanchez/The Associated Press] Ilhan Omar, a progressive United States representative from Minnesota who in 2018 became the first Somali-American and one of the first of two Muslim women to serve in Congress,

US President Donald Trump left a coronavirus pandemic briefing at the White House in Washington, DC amid reports of a shooting outside the grounds [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters] US President Donald Trump abruptly left an on-camera briefing at the White House Monday then returned a few moments later saying a

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a pandemic over a new coronavirus which causes an illness known as COVID-19 that has spread to nearly every country. The disease has killed more than 731,000 people and infected almost 20 million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. More than 12 million people

Most countries on the continent have put in place restrictions to prevent the spread of the virus [Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters] The outbreak of the new coronavirus has reached every nation in Africa, a continent of 1.2 billion people. As of August 10, the confirmed coronavirus death toll on the

Lebanon’s prime minister has announced his government’s resignation, less than a week after a huge explosion tore through capital Beirut, causing unprecedented public outrage. The blast at Beirut’s port on August 4 killed some 200 people and wounded more than 6,000. Anger over the incident spilled on to the streets with

Germany’s Bundesliga returned on May 16 becoming Europe’s first major league to resume matches [Stuart Franklin/Reuters] The outbreak of the novel coronavirus, which as of August 9, has killed more than 731,000 people globally, has affected sporting events across the world, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.  As the number

Countries around the world are scrambling to halt the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. As of August 10, more than 731,000 people worldwide have died of COVID-19, the highly infectious respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus. The number of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 has reached more than 19.4

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the new coronavirus outbreak, which originated in Wuhan, China, a pandemic.  As of August 10, the global death toll surpassed 731,000 amid almost 20 million cases. More than 12 million people have recovered from the disease worldwide, according to the data collected by the Johns Hopkins University in the