Category: World

Beijing reported its second consecutive day of record new numbers of Covid-19 cases on Monday, adding urgency to efforts to rein in a sudden resurgence of the coronavirus in the Chinese capital. The recent outbreak has been traced to Xinfadi, a sprawling wholesale food market that is the biggest in Asia and accounts for 80 […]

The US Supreme Court on Monday delivered a watershed victory for LGBT rights, ruling that a landmark federal law forbidding workplace discrimination protects gay and transgender employees. The 6-3 ruling represented the biggest moment for LGBT rights in the United States since the Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015. In the new ruling, […]

SURGEONS in Chicago have given a new set of lungs to a young woman with severe lung damage from the coronavirus. Northwestern Medicine on Thursday announced the procedure, which took place last Friday. Only a few other Covid-19 survivors, in China and Europe, have received lung transplants. The Chicago patient is in her 20s and […]

WASHINGTON: America’s top general said on Thursday he was wrong to appear with President Donald Trump in a photo op near the White House last week, staged after the area was forcefully cleared of anti-racism protesters. “I should not have been there. My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of […]

WASHINGTON: The United States has hit the two million-mark for confirmed cases of coronavirus infections, two major monitoring agencies reported on Thursday. The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center reported that the US had registered two million Covid-19 cases by late Wednesday. The center had recorded about 2,004,000 cases by Thursday afternoon. Another monitoring agency, Worldometers, […]

The New Zealand city of Hamilton on Friday tore down a statue of the colonial military commander after whom it was named, joining a growing list of places worldwide that are reckoning with their past. A crane hoisted the bronze sculpture of Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton from the town square after requests from local […]

GENEVA: The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating in Africa, spreading to rural areas after international travellers brought it to capital cities, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday. But the WHO said there was no indication that large numbers of severe cases and deaths were being missed, nor has the virus caused significant infections in refugee […]

LONDON: London’s mayor announced on Tuesday that more statues of imperialist figures could be removed from Britain’s streets after protesters knocked down the monument to a slave trader, as the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis continued to spark protests and drive change around the world. On the day Floyd was being buried in his […]

SAO PAULO: As many countries gingerly start lifting their lockdown measures, experts worry that a further surge of coronavirus in under-developed regions with shaky health systems could undermine efforts to halt the pandemic, and they say more realistic options are needed. Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, India and Pakistan are among countries easing tight restrictions, not […]

NEW DELHI: Delhi authorities warned on Tuesday that they expect cases in the Indian capital to shoot up almost 20 times to more than half a million in the coming weeks. India is easing its national lockdown to ease the devastating economic blow dealt by the virus, but the disease is still raging across the […]