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A man waring a face mask passes by notices at the entrance of a temporary closed dance club in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)

South Korea reports highest rise in virus cases in a month after...

PM says health officials are struggling to trace "thousands of people" who went to clubs and bars once the country...

11 May 2020 8:54 AM IST

US vice president Mike Pence unloads boxes of PPE. (AP)

Pence will not stay in quarantine even though close aide tests corona+

Spokesman clarifies that Pence would go to work at the White House as usual on Monday

11 May 2020 8:26 AM IST

Hero MotoCorp resumes retail operations across 1,500 touch-points. (PTI Photo)

Hero MotoCorp resumes retail operations; claims 10,000 sales in a week

Around 10,000 units of motorcycles and scooters have already been sold since the reopening of these customer touch-point

10 May 2020 4:35 PM IST

Former US President Barack Obama. (AFP)

Obama lashes out at Trump's handling of coronavirus

More than 78,400 people with Covid-19 have died in the United States and more than 1.3 million people have tested...

10 May 2020 10:20 AM IST

People wearing face masks walk through an underground shopping area in Seoul. (AFP)

Eased restrictions bring new cases in South Korea, virus fears in...

4 million people have been confirmed infected by the virus so far, and more than 279,000 have died worldwide

10 May 2020 9:57 AM IST

Medical staffers walk in hall leading to the COVID-19 emergency ward of the Santo Spirito hospital, in Rome. (AP)

Italy tops 30,000 coronavirus deaths

Compared to Italy, only United States and Britain have seen more deaths from the virus

9 May 2020 3:43 PM IST

Laborers work to build a road as authorities relax the government-imposed nationwide lockdown. (AP)

Pakistan begins to ease month-long lockdown even as coronavirus cases...

Prime Minister Imran Khan cited the economic crisis due to the shutdown as reason to allow businesses to open from...

9 May 2020 3:01 PM IST

People aboard the Norwegian Epic cruise ship docked at PortMiami in Miami, sit on their balconies. (AP)

Stuck on cruise ships during the pandemic, these crews beg to go home

Both national and local governments have stopped crews from disembarking in order to prevent new cases of COVID-19 in...

9 May 2020 2:18 PM IST

Liz Vereshko, left, is assisted into PPE equipment by fellow nurse Evana Croda before stepping into a patients room in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. (AP)

They don't want our IT guys, but they want our nurses, docs

US to offer 40,000 Green Cards to foreign medics while temporarily banning the issuance of work-based visas like H-1B

9 May 2020 2:04 PM IST

Health workers sanitizing an area near Nizamuddin mosque after people who attended religious congregation at Tablighi Jamaat Markaz tested positive for coronavirus in New Delhi. (Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

10 Indonesian Tablighis granted bail

The accused argue that the present case is a classic example of misuse of powers of the police machinery

9 May 2020 2:02 PM IST

US President Donald Trump. (AFP)

US reversal prevents UN vote on pandemic truce

The resoltuion had called for a 90-day "humanitarian pause" to allow governments to better address the pandemic among...

9 May 2020 2:00 PM IST

The U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April, the highest rate since the Great Depression, as 20.5 million jobs vanished in the worst monthly loss on record. The figures are stark evidence of the damage the coronavirus has done to a now-shattered economy. (AP)

US unemployment surges to a Depression-era level

US Labor Department says that 20.5 million jobs vanished in April in the worst monthly loss on record triggered by...

9 May 2020 11:08 AM IST