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NEW YORK: TikTok has proposed a global coalition of social media firms for early identification and removal of harmful content,...

NEW YORK: Facebook said on Tuesday (Sep 22) it had removed a network of inauthentic Chinese accounts that were interfering...

LONDON: Canada's Bianca Andreescu has pulled out of the French Open and will take the rest of the season off...

LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested today that coronavirus infections were higher in Britain than in Italy or Germany because...

OTTAWA: Covid-19 infections have surged in Canada and if people do not take stringent precautions, they could balloon to exceed...

LONDON: West Ham United manager David Moyes and players Issa Diop and Josh Cullen have returned positive tests for COVID-19,...

WASHINGTON: US Senate Republicans today have their first formal gathering since liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death gave...

MOSCOW: The Kremlin on Tuesday said that Russian efforts to look into the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who...

JAKARTA: Indonesia reported on Tuesday its biggest daily rise in coronavirus deaths with 160 fatalities, data from the country’s Covid-19...

  NEW DELHI: India reported 75,083 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to federal...

WELLINGTON: New Zealand's ruling Labour Party has lost some support since July as the coronavirus resurged in Auckland, but it...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong has no legal basis to demand that any particular rights be extended to 12 Hong Kong...

GENEVA: Some 156 nations have joined a global scheme for fair distribution of future vaccines against Covid-19, an alliance led...

WASHINGTON: The US Commerce Department said today it will challenge an order issued Sunday by a US judge that blocked...

SINGAPORE: Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 800 companies in the food sector have offered about 6,700...

Top seed Simona Halep claimed the Italian Open in Rome on Monday after second seed Karolina Pliskova retired from the...

SYDNEY: Multi-talented Ashleigh Barty has conquered tennis, been a professional cricketer and has now added another string to her sporting...

BERLIN: Next month's Eifel Grand Prix at Germany's Nuerburgring track can have as many as 20,000 fans in attendance, local...

LONDON: Britain needs to control the coronavirus now in order for Christmas to be as normal as possible, health minister...

BEIJING: Former NBA point guard Ty Lawson said he meant "no disrespect" after lewd social media posts about Chinese women...