WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused China of taking “incredibly aggressive action” in a recent clash with India over a disputed section of the nuclear-armed neighbors’…
GENEVA – The World Health Organisation has acknowledged “evidence emerging” of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus, after a group of scientists urged the global body to update its…
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus after months minimising the severity of the pandemic and defying medical experts, even as…
Facebook Inc, Google Inc and Twitter Inc suspended processing government requests for user data in Hong Kong, they said on Monday, following China’s establishment of a sweeping new national security…
India’s death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has surpassed 20,000 and case numbers surged as the south Asian nation pushed ahead with relaxations to its almost two-month lockdown amid grim…
TOKYO – Torrential rain have hit Japan’s southwestern island of Kyushu, with at least one more river bursting its banks, as the death toll from three days of floods and…
HONG KONG – A Hong Kong court has denied bail to the first person charged with inciting separatism and terrorism under the city’s new national security law after he carried…
TAIPEI – Taiwan would welcome a visit by exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, its foreign ministry has said, a trip that would infuriate Beijing which views him as…
Hundreds of scientists say there is evidence that the novel coronavirus in smaller particles in the air can infect people and are calling for the World Health Organization to revise…
HONG KONG – Hong Kong police have fired water cannon and tear gas and arrested more than 300 people as protesters took to the streets in defiance of sweeping security…