WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters): The United States announced its intention to withdraw from the 35-nation Open Skies treaty that permits unarmed aerial surveillance flights over participating countries, sayin
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AMSTERDAM, May 21 (Reuters): Medical researchers in the Netherlands have signed up 1,500 people who have recovered from the new coronavirus to donate blood as part of an international push to develop a tre
YANGON/DHAKA/BANGKOK, May 21 (Reuters): Zarchi Lwin pawned her only two gold bangles for $140 when the owner of the Myanmar factory where she sewed winter coats for British retailer Next Plc shut it
HANOI, May 21 (Reuters): A military court in Vietnam on Thursday sentenced a former deputy defence minister accused of allowing three plots of land in Ho Chi Minh City to be illegally transferred to privat
HONG KONG, May 21 (Reuters): China will propose national security laws for Hong Kong in response to last year's often violent pro-democracy protests that plunged the city into its deepest turmoil since
KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 (Reuters): Malaysia reported 35 new coronavirus cases at an immigration detention centre on Thursday, after authorities rounded up undocumented migrants this month in areas under lockd
LONDON, May 21 (Reuters): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not face criminal action following allegations of misconduct over his relationship with a U.S tech entrepreneur but he might have had an
GULU, Uganda, May 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Before Uganda's coronavirus lockdown, HIV-positive Matina had a morning routine. After waking she drank tea, ate something small, and took her antiret
DUBAI, May 21 (Reuters): Iran's top health official appealed to Iranians to avoid travelling during the Eid al-Fitr religious holiday later this month to avoid the risk of a new surge of coronavirus in
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a news conference as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Tokyo, Japan on May 14, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo) TOKYO,
A woman poses under a Plex'Eat prototype plexiglas bubble by designer Christophe Gernigon which surrounds diners to protect them from the novel coronavirus during a presentation in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, ne
Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn talks during an interview with Reuters in Beirut, Lebanon on January 14, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo) TOKYO, May 21 (Reuters): Japan said on Thursday it was w
Employees wear protective face masks, at a testing center for coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Tehran, Iran on May 20, 2020. (REUTERS Photo) DUBAI, May 21 (Reuters): Around 10,000
Geneva, May 21 (IANS) Highlighting its continuing peril around the world even as its spread slows in some areas of Asia and Europe and lockdown restrictions are eased, coronavirus has infected 106,000 people in
Washington, May 21 (IANS) The total number of global coronavirus cases has increased to nearly 5 million, while the death toll has surged past 328,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Thursd
Washington, May 21 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has said that he will finish his preventive hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) regimen "in a day or two". "I think the regimen finishes in a day or tw
Workers wearing face masks sit inside a bus ticket counter, amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Kathmandu, Nepal on March 20, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
Women gesture during a demonstration in support of women and against gender violence in front of the Palace of the Argentine National Congress, in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 9, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
The headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) are pictured during the World Health Assembly (WHA) following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Geneva, Switzerland on May 18, 20
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with restaurant executives and industry leaders during a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic meeting in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, US May 18,
