Before shutdowns swept the globe and many were urged—or mandated—to stay indoors to stymie coronavirus’s spread, Divya Sonti sensed…

Thai hospitals are deploying “ninja robots” to measure fevers and protect the health of overburdened medical workers on the frontlines of…

Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed comparisons to a tsar yesterday, arguing he “works every day” and listens to what people want.…

A legal complaint against Burundi was filed with a UN rights body yesterday, over punitive actions taken against lawyers and activists who cooperated with a UN review of the country’s rights record. The International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) filed a complaint with the United Nations Committee…

Germany is facing its biggest challenge “since the Second World War” in the fight against the coronavirus, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday,…

Britain is withdrawing some of its troops from a global training mission in Iraq because of the coronavirus outbreak, the defence ministry said yesterday. The decision to redeploy was made because there had been a “reduced requirement for training” from the Iraqi security forces and a pause…

Four men convicted of the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a New Delhi student set to be executed today (Friday), the victim’s lawyer said after a court dismissed a final last-minute petition to delay the hangings. The brutal attack on Jyoti Singh aboard a city bus sparked nationwide demonstrations…

Sri Lanka has indefinitely postponed parliamentary elections that were scheduled for next month to curb the spread of the new coronavirus. “Even if the WHO says Sri Lanka is free of this virus tomorrow, we will not be able to conduct the election on April 25,” election chief Mahinda Deshapriya…

Indonesia halted a mass congregation of nearly 9,000 Muslim pilgrims and began quarantining them and checking their health yesterday to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus amid a spike in cases. The four-day gathering at a boarding school in a rural area in south Sulawesi province wasn’t…