New York started to return to the “new normal’ on Monday as the city eased the coronavirus lockdown with stores and cafes reopening. But even as New Yorkers, confined for weeks at the epicenter of the global pandemic, returned to some semblance of normalcy, alarming spikes in coronavirus infection rates elsewhere around the country worried مزید پڑھیں

Saudi Arabia on Monday announced it would hold a “very limited” Hajj this year due to the coronavirus pandemic with only pilgrims of different nationalities already in the Kingdom allowed to take part. However, this is not the first time the annual pilgrimage which draws 2.5 million Muslims every year has been disrupted. It is مزید پڑھیں

One of the victims of a stabbing attack in the English town of Reading on Saturday was a U.S. citizen, the US ambassador to London confirmed on Monday. Authorities have attributed the attack in which three people were killed to terrorism. U.S. ambassador Woody Johnson on twitter offered his “deepest condolences” to the families of مزید پڑھیں

Accounts by former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton of discussions between leaders of the United States and the two Koreas in his upcoming book are inaccurate and distorted, South Korea said on Monday. Bolton gives details in the book of conversations before and after three meetings between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean مزید پڑھیں

Chinese leaders and European Union (EU) officials will hold a video summit today as tensions rise over new tariffs targeting Chinese firms and the coronaviurs pandemic. The heads of the EU’s main institutions will discuss the coronavirus with top Chinese leaders, after Brussels infuriated Beijing by accusing it of a campaign of disinformation around the مزید پڑھیں

Turkish Airlines is resuming its flights to Pakistan, the Turkish ambassador announced on Monday. Ambassador Mustafa Yurdakul said the airline will resume flights from July 2 from Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. There will be four flights a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Turkish Airlines stopped flights to Pakistan after the country closed its مزید پڑھیں

A stabbing rampage in the southern English town of Reading in which three people were killed and three taken to hospital was an act of terrorism, police said on Sunday, calling the attack in a sunny park an atrocity. Detectives said a man had run into a park in Reading, about 40 miles (65 km) مزید پڑھیں

Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi continued with his relentless attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, referring to him as “Surrender Modi” for backing off in the face of the Ladakh clash between the Indian and Chinese troops that took place earlier this week. Taking to Twitter, Gandhi shared an article criticising Modi’s foreign مزید پڑھیں

Beijing has accuses Indian soldiers of instigating the fight in the disputed Ladakh region that left 20 Indian soldiers dead and some missing. China says the Galwan Valley where Chinese and Indian troops were engaged in a deadly clash falls entirely within its territory, as Beijing blamed New Delhi for the June 15 military clash مزید پڑھیں

Pro-democracy labor unions and a student group in Hong Kong failed to garner enough support to hold strikes against looming national security legislation imposed by Beijing, in a blow for the Chinese-ruled city’s protest movement. After a year of often-violent unrest, anti-government demonstrations have lost momentum due to higher risk of arrest, with recent rallies مزید پڑھیں