India and Bangladesh began a massive clean-up Thursday after the fiercest cyclone since 1999 killed at least 95 people, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Cyclone Amphan flattened houses, uprooted trees, blew off roofs and toppled electricity pylons, while a storm surge inundated coastal villages and wrecked shrimp farms vital to the local مزید پڑھیں

Many Israeli websites were hit by a coordinated cyberattack Thursday, with the home pages replaced by images of the country’s commercial capital Tel Aviv in flames. Israel’s National Cyber Directorate said private companies using a particular operating system were target but said the damage was ‘superficial’. It did not state the number of pages targeted مزید پڑھیں

More than 200 doctors and medical staff took part in protests in the western Afghan city of Herat on Tuesday, saying they had not been paid for three months while risking their lives to treat coronavirus patients. Herat, war-torn Afghanistan s third largest city, has reported a high number of COVID-19 cases since March and مزید پڑھیں

Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin returned to his duties on Tuesday after recovering from the coronavirus, as total infections approached 300,000 and officials said new cases were dropping off. President Vladimir Putin signed a decree reinstating Mishustin as the head of government, nearly three weeks after the prime minister announced on television he had tested مزید پڑھیں

U.S President Donald Trump has threatened to permanently cut off US funding of the World Health Organisation (WHO), unless “substantive improvements” were made within the next 30 days. Trump suspended US contributions to the WHO last month, accusing it of promoting China’s “disinformation” about the coronavirus outbreak, although WHO officials denied the accusation and China مزید پڑھیں

The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia stated that the Eid Prayers could be offer at home. In an Interview with Arab News Agency, Saudi Grand Mufti and chairman Saudi Scientific and Research council Abdul Aziz Al shaikh said that in current unusual and Global pandemic situation, it is advisable to offer Eid prayers at home. مزید پڑھیں

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was turned away by a cafe on Saturday because it had reportedly reached its full capacity due to the ongoing social distancing norms amidst the COVID-19 pandemic gripping the world. A Twitter user informed on the microblogging site how Ardern was not allowed entry after she reached there with مزید پڑھیں

US President Donald Trump has recognised the contributions of a 10-year-old Pakistani-American girl named Laila Khan during a ceremony organised to honour ‘coronavirus heroes’ at The White House on Friday. According to the US Embassy in Islamabad, Laila and her fellow scout members donated about 100 boxes of cookies among front-line workers including medical staffers مزید پڑھیں

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah signed a power-sharing deal on Sunday, ending a bitter months-long feud that plunged the country into political crisis. The breakthrough, which sees Abdullah heading peace talks with the Taliban, comes as Afghanistan battles a rapid spread of the deadly coronavirus and surging militant violence that saw مزید پڑھیں

China’s ambassador to Israel, Du Wei, was found dead at his residence on the outskirts of Tel Aviv on Sunday, police said. The 57-year-old envoy, who had arrived in Israel in mid-February, was found dead in his home in Herzliya, north of the city, spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP, adding that police were investigating. Du’s مزید پڑھیں