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$A man holds a poster with a portrait of Alexei Navalny reading \Navalny was poisoned, we know who is to blame, Alexei you must live\ during an unsanctioned protest in support of Sergei Furgal, the governor of the Khabarovsk region, in Khabarovsk, 6,100 kilometers (3,800 miles) east of Moscow, Russia. (AP)$ World

Russian dissident Alexei Navalnyâ€™s wife, aide visit him in Germany

The comatose Kremlin critic was flown to Germany after doctors determined he was stable enough to be transported for...

24 Aug 2020 10:50 AM IST

Relatives (in white) along with workers (in blue) wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) help to place the body of a person who died from the COVID-19 coronavirus before cremation in a furnace at the Nigambodh Ghat cremation ground, in New Delhi. (AFP)

World COVID-19 fatalities touch 8 lakhs

More than half the global fatalities have been reported in the hardest-hit United States, Brazil, Mexico and India

23 Aug 2020 12:38 PM IST

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, left, speaks to high rank officers as he visits a military exercise near Grodno, Belarus. (AP)

Lukashenko orders army into full combat readiness as protests stir in...

The president denounced mass protests, which he said were receiving support from Western countries, and ordered army to...

23 Aug 2020 12:13 PM IST

TV grab taken from the World Health Organization website shows WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as he delivers a news briefing on COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) from the WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 30, 2020. (AFP)

COVID may take 2 years to vanish, faster than Spanish flu: WHO

Western Europe has been enduring the kind of infection levels not seen in many months, particularly in Germany, France,...

22 Aug 2020 3:26 PM IST

Alexei Navalny poses in his office in Moscow, Russia. (AP File Image)

Kremlin critic Navalny on flight from Russia to Germany in coma

The Kremlin denied resistance to the transfer was political, saying that it was purely a medical decision

22 Aug 2020 9:46 AM IST

Students arrive at the Friedensburg Oberschule school for the first day at school after the summer vacations during the new coronavirus outbreak in Berlin, Germany. (AP)

41 Berlin schools report new coronavirus cases within two weeks of...

The reopening of schools and the possible risk of new virus clusters building up has been an issue thatâ€™s hotly...

21 Aug 2020 3:22 PM IST

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. (AFP)

Russian doctors refuse transfer of poisoned Kremlin critic to Germany

Navalny remains in a coma in intensive care after a suspected poisoning his allies link to his political activity

21 Aug 2020 1:06 PM IST

Sputnik V has been developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, along with the RDIF. The vaccine has not been tested in Phase 3 or larger clinical trials. (Representational Image: AFP)

Russia looking for partnership with India for producing COVID vaccine:...

Dmitriev said several nations are interested in the production of the vaccine from countries in Latin America, Asia and...

21 Aug 2020 8:54 AM IST

Once officers came in, they put him on a bed and forcefully restricted his movements, with one officer sitting on him for a long time. Another officer made an apparent Nazi salute during the incident. (Representational Image: AFP)

Video of police sitting on victim of custody death shocks Belgium

The issue, which happened in 2018, has gained extra prominence after the death of George Floyd in US-' Minneapolis

20 Aug 2020 3:56 PM IST

Climate activist Greta Thunberg. (AFP File Image)

German Chancellor Merkel hosts Greta Thunberg for talks on climate...

The meeting comes exactly two years after Thunberg started to strike outside Swedish parliament to call attention to...

20 Aug 2020 3:11 PM IST

File photo Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. (AP)

Russian opposition politician in coma after suspected poisoning

Navalnyâ€™s Foundation for Fighting Corruption has been exposing graft among government officials, including some at the...

20 Aug 2020 12:34 PM IST

Belarusian opposition supporters gather for a protest rally in front of the government building at Independent Square in Minsk, Belarus, with a Soviet era sculptures in the foreground. AP photo

EU leaders seek to ramp up pressure on Belarus president Alexander...

The EU believes that the results of the Aug. 9 polls, which handed President Lukashenko his sixth term was falsified

19 Aug 2020 3:48 PM IST