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French authorities have already started to tighten public hygiene rules, ordering people to wear masks

Premier accuses Modi of undermining India's legacy of secularism in interview with Al Jazeera

New infections grew by 60% compared to last week

Britain faces a second wave if it reopens schools without a more effective test-and-trace system in place

Death toll nears 40,000, WHO official warns India in for long battle against Covid-19

Brazil and Mexico are the worst-hit countries, followed by Peru, Colombia and Chile

Many internal state borders have been closed

WHO director-general says stopping Covid-19 outbreaks depends on applying basics of public health

Trump says while he has 'the right to' issue an executive order to halt the efforts, 'we haven't gotten there yet'

Gold prices retreat from record high after profit-taking, dollar’s strengthening

Billboards display messages of Kashmir liberation movement as world marks a year to siege in Himalayan valley

Statement says he is overcoming the most acute phase of a painful but not grave illness

AstraZeneca says it plans to start human trials of its dual-antibody combination within weeks

Mushaal Mullick says Kashmiri women are being persecuted at a different level of tyranny

Premier tells Al Jazeera we have done our best to avoid military confrontation between two countries

The IS news outlet Amaq announced its fighters were behind the raid, according to the SITE Intelligence Group

High court decides to form a larger bench for hearing of case against Indian spy

Lawmakers and the White House have been unable to reach an accord for economic relief from a pandemic

NASA officials says Crew Dragon, a pod with seven astronaut seats, was in a “very healthy” condition

State election officials are working to ensure tens of millions of ballots can reach voters in time

Authorities says the strain of virus detected in Danang is a more contagious one

Singapore has reported 52,825 coronavirus infections

Health centers across Middle Eastern country face shortages of oxygen supplies, PPE

Country’s Covid-19 recovery rate stands at 65.8%

Tehran announc arrest of leader of US-based anti-regime group accused of carrying out terrorist attacks in Iran

Explosive yield of nuclear weapons 'increased exponentially' since Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima

Virus claims 1,088 lives in Brazil - epicenter of outbreak in Latin America - and 784 in Mexico over past 24 hours

Local residents fear China may use this as an excuse to collect DNA samples for surveillance purposes

The US has paid SpaceX and aerospace giant Boeing a total of about $7 billion for their "space taxi" contracts

Police say the victims died in three districts of the northern state and police have arrested 10 people

President Erdogan exchanges Eidul Azha greetings with PM Imran, President Alvi over telephone

Brazil’s space research agency Inpe recorded 6,803 fires in the Amazon last month, up from 5,318 in July 2019.

An intelligence ministry statement cited by state television did not say how, where or when the detention took place

TikTok has emerged as a flashpoint in the dispute between the world’s two largest economies

Total case count now close to 307,000 as over 2,500 more people test positive for Covid-19

Health Minister says only 1 in 3 among all positive cases under medical supervision as active cases continue fall

Former Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry says US tilt has emboldened Indian leadership to pursue hegemonic ambitions

There is a great deal of fear in occupied valley, says former official mediator Radha Kumar

Announcement comes hot on the heels of the UAE's launch of the Arab world's first probe to Mars

Arrivals wear masks, pass through thermal cameras upon landing amid easing Covid-19 precautions on int'l air traffic

Tens of thousands attended a rally last weekend, according to journalists, while police put the figure at just 6,500

Known for its strawberries, Lepe in southern Spain supplies a large part of the European market

China has offered to send mainland testing staff to the city to carry out large scale nucleic acid testing

Kingdom's aviation authority sends a list to CAA; govt has verified licenses of 196 pilots

Health officials stress wearing masks, hand washing, social distancing must at schools, but parents unsure what to do

Reopening of high-risk activities such as casinos, bowling alleys and skating rinks will be delayed until Aug 15

Hilal Ahmed had gone missing in Wangat area of Ganderbal district, where he had gone for trekking with friends

One T16 drone can spray insecticides over 10 hectares of farms every hour

Says the United State's brutal sanctions are aimed at collapsing Iran's economy

The country recorded nearly 1.8 million new cases in July out of its total 4.5 million infections