Despite cautionary notes sounded by some US public health officials about that accelerated timeline, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said a vaccine against the deadly coronavirus could be three or four weeks away. Trump, speaking at a town hall hosted by ABC News in Philadelphia, defended his handling of the coronavirus crisis, and said مزید پڑھیں

Japan’s parliament on Wednesday elected Yoshihide Suga as prime minister, following Shinzo Abe’s resignation. The former chief cabinet secretary is expected to stick closely to policies championed by Abe during his record-breaking tenure. “According to the results, our house has decided to name Yoshihide Suga prime minister,” lower house speaker Tadamori Oshima told parliament after مزید پڑھیں

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny shared a photograph from a Berlin hospital on Tuesday, sitting up in bed and surrounded by his family, and said he could now breathe independently after being poisoned in Siberia last month. The photo – the strongest evidence yet of Navalny’s advancing recovery after emerging from a coma last week مزید پڑھیں

The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain sign controversial normalization agreements with Israel at the White House amid outrage across Palestine and elsewhere throughout the Muslim world at the Arab regimes’ sheer betrayal of the Palestinian cause. The deals were signed between Emirati and Bahraini Foreign Ministers, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Abdullatif bin مزید پڑھیں

The annual meetings of the United Nations began in New York on Monday with Kashmir on the agenda as an unresolved dispute. In doing so, the world body ignored India’s efforts to remove the 72-year old issue from the UN Security Council’s agenda for this year. The council’s Resolution 47, which calls for a peaceful مزید پڑھیں

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lashed out at the European Union on Monday as he won initial approval for a plan to breach the Brexit treaty, saying the move was needed because the bloc had refused to take a “revolver off the table” in trade talks. Johnson won the so-called second reading parliamentary vote on مزید پڑھیں

The World Health Organisation (WHO) expects Europe to see a rise in the daily number of Covid-19 deaths in October and November, the head of the body’s European branch told AFP on Monday. “It’s going to get tougher. In October, November, we are going to see more mortality,” WHO Europe Director Hans Kluge said, as مزید پڑھیں

France’s independent analysis has concluded that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-style nerve agent Novichok in an attempted assassination, the presidency said on Monday. “The president expressed his deep concern over the criminal act perpetrated against Alexei Navalany and the imperative that all light be shed, without delay, on the circumstances and مزید پڑھیں

Japan’s ruling party nominated Yoshihide Suga for Premiership. According to British News Agency the ruling party has nominated Yoshihide Suga for Prime Minister Post after the resignation of Prime Minister Shinzo abe, the voting process is also underway to select new Prime Minister. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo abe had resigned from post last month مزید پڑھیں

Riot police in balaclavas harshly detained some 250 demonstrators as tens of thousands of people gathered for an opposition protest on the eve of talks between President Alexander Lukashenko and his main ally, Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Masked agents in uniform and plain clothes snatched people from the streets as they assembled for the “March of مزید پڑھیں