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Many tests involve a trade-off between speed and accuracy but this test manages to achieve both says Cooke

Pompeo said that the United States would do “all the things we need to do” to enforce the UN sanctions on Iran

France registered a record 10,593 new confirmed Covid-19 cases in 24 hours

Taiwan’s Liberty Times newspaper said Taiwan air force jets scrambled 17 times on Friday morning over four hours

Australia’s six states and two territories have either closed domestic borders or severely limited entry

Japan and Malaysia signed a bilateral currency swap arrangement

The initiative does help clean up the environment and recycle waste

With 5.12 million cases in all, India is the world’s second-worst affected country

Accused's fingerprints match those found on slain five-year-old's clothes

Say its impact will increase power of storm surges globally, while coastal regions will be exposed to severe flooding

Navalny fell violently ill on a flight in Russia last month and was airlifted to Berlin for treatment

Afghanistan's acting Defence Minister Asadullah Khalid blamed the Taliban for the fighting

February’s violence killed more than 50 people, most of them from Muslim community

Health experts concerned about less accurate tests; false negative results raise the likelihood of virus spread

At least 24 Members of Indian Parliament tested positive for the virus local media reported

Beijing lodges a complaint with Washington, opposing any official exchanges between the two countries

Shuts more than a quarter of US Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas production

FO says re-election resounding validation of country’s meaningful engagement within UN

Amid new efforts to find a political solution to the country’s conflict

Previously opposed by Republicans and environmentalists saying it would damage wetlands and popular fishing sites

UK must honour the N Irish peace deal or there will be no US trade deal says the presidential candidate

As over 12,000 people were left without shelter, proper sanitation or access to food and water

The agency surveys 5,000 people and finds about half blamed a specific group for spreading of the disease

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the militants of seeking to stop the peace deals

Palestine has relied on a longstanding pan-Arab position, demanding Israel's withdrawal from the occupied West Bank

Initial results of the vaccine's Phase III trials, involving around 40,000 people are expected in October or November

Time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind, says Barbados Governor General Sandra Mason

Two sides have had a long-standing agreement for troops not to use firearms at the poorly defined LAC

As the British government pushes ahead with moves that would breach their divorce treaty

Council said it had "temporarily ordered closed all schools, the university, the parks, open-air sports facilities"

Factory output prices fell for the fifth month in a row in annual terms

China has been pushing for language associated with Xi’s Communist Party ideology to be included in UN resolutions

Ruled that additional tariffs imposed by the US against China in 2018 were inconsistent with global trading rules

Australia has reported nearly 26,800 coronavirus cases and 824 deaths

As UAE grants emergency approval for use of a coronavirus vaccine

Trials have also resumed in Brazil and South Africa

As Johnson's Internal Market Bill is currently being debated in parliament

Trump said he would have no problem selling advanced stealth F-35 fighter jets to the UAE

United States had a number of cases because it did more testing than other countries says Trump

As the freshly minted head of the ruling LDP vows to continue the policies of his predecessor Shinzo Abe

Packing maximum sustained winds of 100 miles per hour

The army has denied genocide, saying it was carrying out a legitimate operation against Rohingya militants

The death toll from Covid-19 is now at 82,066

Pakistan's 'relation of respect with the Afghans, including Taliban' convinced Taliban for talks, argues expert

The US president says after decades of division and conflict we mark the dawn of a new Middle East

The deals make them the third and fourth Arab states to normalise ties with Israel after Egypt and Jordan

An early-stage study showed Novavax’s vaccine produced high levels of antibodies against the novel coronavirus

The move will likely fuel speculation that Oman could be the next Gulf state to sign a normalisation deal with Israel

Several of the arrested women say they have suffered torture and sexual assault in detention

UAE is eyeing stealth fighter jet as a component to make the small, wealthy country into a regional military power