HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam has had one of the world’s best records in containing the coronavirus despite bordering China, its biggest trading partner, where the virus was first reported. But after more than three months with no reports of local transmission, new cases have now been reported in six cities and provinces in the past […]

A Milwaukee woman has been charged in the shooting death of her 2-year-old daughter. First responders arrived on the scene on July 21 to find Zymeiia Stevens with a gunshot wound. She died on the way to the hospital, Fox 6 News reports. Authorities arrested the girl's mother, Jasmine C. Daniels. PEOPLE confirms that the […]

Britain’s gin makers warn of 6,500 jobs at risk if Donald Trump goes ahead with crippling tariffs Gin makers warned the Government of Donald Trump’s crippling export tariffs They warned the Government to stop the tariffs, as it would put 6,500 jobs at risk The group of 230 British distillers added that it would see […]

Barr rejects Democrats’ assertions of racism in US policing and denies he favoured Trump’s friends in Mueller trials. United States Attorney General William Barr appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on July 28 for the first time since taking office in February 2019. Barr’s appearance came amid the deployment of federal law enforcement officers against […]

Online donations for protester Nikki Stone poured in Wednesday following her controversial arrest by the NYPD — as her mom revealed the teen is a transgender woman who prefers the name “Stickers.” A GoFundMe page titled “Housing for Stickers” was created on Saturday to raise $15,000 for Stone, “who has been experiencing houselessness” and “is […]

FM Cavusoglu says Ankara will not be held hostage by Greece and Cyprus and called on EU to be an ‘honest broker’. Turkey will respond if the European Union imposes further sanctions on Ankara, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday after meeting the EU’s top diplomat. France’s foreign minister said last week EU ministers […]

Philippine president signed bill into law on Friday after pushing it through Congress during the coronavirus lockdown. Philippine lawyer groups and a top congressman asked the Supreme Court on Monday to strike down the president’s controversial new anti-terrorism law, or parts of it, calling it unconstitutional for infringing on civil liberties. Three petitions filed by […]

AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordanian security forces dispersed dozens of teachers trying to reach the seat of government on Wednesday to protest at the arrest of their union leaders and the closure of its offices across the country. The government raided the union’s offices on Saturday and shut it down for two years, escalating a confrontation […]

A Pakistani man who allegedly claimed he was a prophet was shot dead in a courtroom Wednesday while on trial for blasphemy – which is punishable by death in the country, according to reports. Tahir Ahmad Naseem, whom a teenager accused of blasphemy in 2018, was seen in video slumped in his seat inside the […]

WASHINGTON/GENEVA (Reuters) – World Trade Organization members are likely to refrain from appointing an interim director-general to succeed Roberto Azevedo when he steps down at the end of August, two sources following the process said on Wednesday, after Washington’s insistence on a U.S. candidate caused a deadlock. Under the new proposal, instead of appointing one […]