Seventeen US states and more than 200 universities are taking legal action to challenge the Trump administration’s new restrictions on international students, arguing that the policy jeopardises students’ safety and forces institutions to reconsider new plans for the coming semester that they have spent months […]
World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issued a stark warning on the spread of the coronavirus – calling the disease “public enemy number one” – as the number of cases around the world rose above 13 million. More than half a million people […]
US Ambassador to Thailand, Michael George DeSombre, gestures toward a military painting — ‘Washington and His Generals’ — which shows General George Washington’s farewell to his troops at Fraunces Tavern, New York City in 1783. (Photos: Somchai Poomlard) Last week, US army chief of staff Gen […]
An airport official in protective gear sprays disinfectant on passengers’ luggage at Suvarnabhumi airport as more Thais who had been stranded overseas and selected groups of foreigners continued to arrive in Thailand on Monday. (Photo: Wichan Charoenkiatpakul) The tourism sector in Rayong has expressed concerns […]
Many cities in India are going back into lockdown after a record rise in the number of coronavirus cases. India is the third-worst-affected country, with nearly 900,000 cases and more than 23,000 deaths. But the decision to bring back lockdown measures is not being welcomed […]
Nathan Law, one of Hong Kong’s most prominent democracy activists, announced on Monday he has relocated to Britain, five days after confirming he fled his home because of Beijing’s new security law. “My destination: London,” Law wrote in a Facebook post on Monday, his 27th […]
Six women who claim they were sexually abused by Harvey Weinstein urged a United States judge on Monday to reject an $18.9m settlement between the disgraced movie producer, the board of his former studio and other accusers. The settlement announced on June 30 would end […]
The pandemic could potentially get far worse if all nations do not adhere to basic healthcare precautions, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The pandemic has caused “an education emergency” with 9.7 million children at risk of never returning to school, according to a report […]
Glee star Naya Rivera’s four-year-old son told investigators that his mother, whose body was found in a Southern California lake on Monday, boosted him back on to the deck of their rented boat before he looked back and saw her disappearing under the water, authorities […]
Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera’s continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. I’m Kate Mayberry in Kuala Lumpur. The World Health Organization has warned the pandemic could get far worse if countries around the world do not follow basic healthcare precautions. “The virus remains public […]
