YANGON: Myanmar reported 115 new coronavirus cases today, a day after imposing sweeping new lockdown measures in its battle on a second wave of infections. The tally stands at 2,265 cases and 14 deaths after infections quadrupled over the last month, since the virus resurfaced in the western state of […]
Year: 2020
MANILA: The Philippines’ health ministry today reported 4,040 new coronavirus infections, the highest daily increase in 12 days, and 42 more deaths. In a bulletin, the ministry said total confirmed cases had increased to 252,964, the most in South-east Asia, while confirmed deaths have reached 4,108.
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump yesterday denied lying to Americans about the severity of the coronavirus after a bombshell new book by journalist Bob Woodward revealed that he deliberately downplayed the crisis. Trump’s taped admission to Woodward that he minimised the pandemic in public, while being aware from the start about […]
LAHORE: Comments by the lead police investigator suggesting that the victim of a gang rape in Pakistan that occurred along one of the country’s most secure highways was to blame have spurred cries of outrage. Investigators say the victim left her home with her two children in Lahore and was […]
BEIJING: China and India said they had agreed to de-escalate renewed tensions on their contested Himalayan border and take steps to restore “peace and tranquillity” following a high-level diplomatic meeting in Moscow. Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi and Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar met in Moscow yesterday and reached a […]
TALENT: Dozens of extreme wind-driven wildfires burned through forests and towns in US West Coast states yesterday, destroying hundreds of homes and killing at least eight people, authorities said. In the past 48 hours, four people died from fires in California, while three were killed in Oregon and a 1-year-old […]
AMBALA: India’s defence minister hailed the formal commissioning yesterday of the country’s first new French Rafale jets as a “strong message” to its adversaries, amid an escalating border row with China. The first five of a US$9.4 billion (RM29.2 billion) order for 36 Rafale aircraft formally entered service following a […]
TAIPEI: Taiwan denounced China yesterday over large-scale air and naval drills off its southwestern coast, calling them a serious provocation and a threat to international air traffic. It urged Beijing to rein in its armed forces. China, which claims democratic Taiwan as its own, has stepped up military exercises near […]
AMBALA: India’s defence minister hailed the formal commissioning yesterday of the country’s first new French Rafale jets as a “strong message” to its adversaries, amid an escalating border row with China. The first five of a US$9.4 billion (RM29.2 billion) order for 36 Rafale aircraft formally entered service following a […]
WASHINGTON: The cat-and-mouse campaigning by Donald Trump and Joe Biden has led the president and his Democratic challenger to the same locations, sometimes on the same day, while displaying radically different styles as they court American voters. As the candidates criss-cross the battleground states likely to determine the outcome of […]