(Reuters) - Stocks across the world hit their lowest in seven weeks and other risk assets also sold off on Monday on concerns over renewed lockdown measures in Europe and Britain, as well as the…

(Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Tuesday tell people to work from home and will impose new restrictions on pubs, bars and restaurants as part of an attempt to tackle the…

Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates last week signed deals to normalise ties with Israel at the White House. (AP pic) (AFP) - The US Embassy in Bahrain on Monday warned American citizens in the…

(Al Jazeera) - "Black Power!" was an utterance popularised by radical Black activists in the 1960s and 1970s. Although often ignored ideologically, the iconography of Black Power continues to be…

(BBC) - Leaked documents involving about $2tn of transactions have revealed how some of the world's biggest banks have allowed criminals to move dirty money around the world. They also show how…

(CNA) - Britain is at a tipping point on COVID-19, health minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday (Sep 20), warning that a second national lockdown could be imposed if people don't follow government…

(Bloomberg) - An Indonesian seafood exporter has become the latest in a string of companies to be slapped with a ban by China after product packaging tested positive for the coronavirus. The…

(Reuters) - Openly challenging the monarchy of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn, thousands of protesters marched in Bangkok on Sunday to present demands that include a call for reforms to curb his…

(Reuters) - A lawyer for Julian Assange told a London court on Friday that she was present when an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump offered to arrange a pardon for the WikiLeaks founder in…

(Reuters) - Taiwan bid farewell on Saturday to former president Lee Teng-hui, dubbed "Mr. Democracy" for ending autocratic rule in favour of free elections and championing Taiwan's separate…

(Reuters) - Russia has approved R-Pharm’s Coronavir treatment for outpatients with mild to moderate Covid-19 infections and the antiviral drug could be rolled out to pharmacies in the country as…

(The Sun Daily) - The number of coronavirus cases registered worldwide topped 30 million on Thursday, according to an AFP tally based on official sources. The grim landmark came as the World…

(CNA) - One in seven cases of COVID-19 reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) is a health worker and in some countries that figure rises to one in three, the agency said on Thursday (Sep…

(CNA) - China lauded the success of its vocational and jobs schemes in the troubled Xinjiang region on Thursday (Sep 17), just days after the US government said they were being operated from…

A group of wealthy nations representing 13 per cent of the global population have already bought up more than half of the promised doses of future COVID-19 vaccines, according to a report by Oxfam…

(Business Insider) - A recently fired Facebook employee wrote a memo on her last day at the company accusing the tech giant of routinely ignoring or otherwise not prioritizing fake accounts'…

(Al Jazeera) - Hundreds of Palestinians protested Tuesday in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, denouncing the Emirati and Bahraini normalisation agreements with Israel as rockets were…

(Straits Times) - European Union leaders told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday (Sept 14) to open up markets, respect minorities and step back from a crackdown in Hong Kong, also asserting…

(Daily Express) - China claims it has a historic right of ownership to almost the entire South China Sea, despite a 2016 international arbitration ruling saying Beijing's claim had no legal basis…

(CNA) - Coronavirus vaccines being developed in China may be ready for use by the general public as early as November, an official with the China Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…

(NST) - Japan's ruling party on Monday elected chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga its new leader, making him all but certain to replace Shinzo Abe as the country's next prime minister. Suga…

(NST) - Ahead of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) being re-imposed on Monday in Indonesia's capital city, governor Anies Baswedan reminded residents that using face masks is an effective way…

(Independent) - Facebook abandoned an experiment after two artificially intelligent programs appeared to be chatting to each other in a strange language only they understood. The two chatbots…

(CGTN) - Hundreds of thousands of people have been given two Chinese COVID-19 vaccine candidates as part of an emergency program, without a single case of infection or adverse effects, a senior…

(Daily Express) - South China Sea tensions have led China to deploy a "secret weapon" as hostility with the US in the region continues. China has built up a significant military presence in the…

(BBC) - Hackers with ties to Russia, China and Iran are attempting to snoop on people and groups involved with the US 2020 presidential election, Microsoft says. The Russian hackers who…

(Yahoo News) - A US Air Force aircraft used a transponder code to electronically impersonate a Malaysian plane while spying on China’s military bases, the US-based Popular Mechanics has reported,…

(Al Jazeera) - Members of a Danish far-right group burned a copy of the Quran in Sweden, only days after a similar incident in the southern city of Malmo. A video posted by the leader of the…

(Bloomberg) - With restaurants and malls bustling, pre-pandemic life is slowly returning for people in Singapore — except for the more than 300,000 migrant workers who make up much of the city’s…

(Straits Times) - The United States has revoked visas of more than 1,000 Chinese students and researchers under an order by President Donald Trump that accused some of them of espionage, the State…