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Workers in protective suits prepare a coffin containing the body of someone who presumably died of COVID-19 for burial at a cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP)World
Corpses kidnapped in Indonesia as traditions clash with virus protocol

Corpse handlers say their job profile itself has changed, with longer hours and some even required to do rituals...

9 July 2020 1:09 PM IST

President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella resort North Korea on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, repeated it has no immediate intent to resume dialogue with the United States hours before U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun was to arrive in South Korea for discussions on the stalled nuclear diplomacy. (AP Photo)World
North Korea rejects talks ahead of US envoy-'s arrival in Seoul

North Korea ridiculed South-'s “nonsensical” calls for revived negotiations between US and Pyongyang when it lost...

7 July 2020 3:27 PM IST

A nuclear accord with the US signed in 2015 by the Obama administration, under which Iran would stop all nuclear activity, was unilaterally abandoned by the Trump administration in 2018. Since September 2019, Iran began enriching uranium at the Natanz facility, where the accident took place on Thursday. This photo released Nov. 5, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, shows centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran. (Photo | AP)World
Iran’s nuclear activity takes a major hit due to accident at site

The accident at a warehouse could slow the production of centrifuges used to enrich uranium.

6 July 2020 6:30 PM IST

A drone display showing messages of support for the country amid the covid-19 pandemic, above the Han river in central Seoul. (AFP)World
Hundreds of drones light up Seoul sky with virus messages

The show began with reminding people of precautionary measures, including wearing masks, washing hands and observing...

6 July 2020 1:24 PM IST

A car leans against a building following a heavy rain in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan Monday, July 6, 2020. (AP)World
Dozens feared dead in Japan floods

At least 36 people are feared dead after record rains lashed areas of western Japan in the early hours of Saturday

6 July 2020 8:48 AM IST

A man looks at books in a public library in Hong Kong on July 4, 2020. - Books written by prominent Hong Kong democracy activists have started to disappear from the citys libraries, online records show, days after Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the finance hub.The new security law and the removal of books raises questions of whether academic freedom still exists. (Photo | AFP)World
Books on democracy removed from Hong Kong libraries

The national security law is fundamentally a tool to incriminate speech, wrote author and activist Joshua Wong on...

4 July 2020 8:26 PM IST

A woman (L) sticks a blank note onto a Lennon Wall outside a pro-democracy restaurant in Hong Kong on July 3, 2020, in response to a new national security law introduced in the city which makes political views, slogans and signs advocating Hong Kongs independence or liberation illegal. (AFP)World
-'Hidden language-': Hong Kongers get creative to mark dissent against...

Apart from word plays, residents are using even Chinese Communist Party dogma to express their frustration through...

4 July 2020 3:09 PM IST

In this June 12, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island, in Singapore. (AP)World
No need to sit for talks with US: North Korea

North Korea thinks meeting with Trump would be nothing more than “a political tool” for Washington

4 July 2020 12:51 PM IST

A man walks past the stickers with messages about an anti-Beijing government are left by protesters on a street in Hong Kong, Thursday, July 2, 2020. (AP)World
Hong Kongers clean up their chat histories in face of security law

Certain political views such as wanting independence became illegal and rights groups warn this will choke civil...

3 July 2020 1:10 PM IST

Nathan Law is Hong Kongs youngest ever lawmaker. (AFP)World
-'The world should stand up to China over Hong Kong-'

Pro-democracy activist Nathan Law explains how Hong Kong’s fate shows China’s true authoritarianism

3 July 2020 10:03 AM IST

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a politburo meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea Thursday, June 2, 2020. (AP)World
Kim signals North Korea to keep borders closed against virus

Pyongyang insists it has not had a single case of COVID-19, while the disease has swept the world infecting more than...

3 July 2020 9:15 AM IST

Representational Image. (AFP)World
Singaporean charged for racist tweets against Indian migrants

If found guilty, the accused may be punished with a jail term of up to three years, fined, or both

2 July 2020 12:49 PM IST

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