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India-EU renew agreement on S&T cooperation

10:39 pm July 25, 2020

New Delhi: India and the European Union have renewed their agreement to expand scientific and technological cooperation aimed at strengthening their collaboration in this area in the next five years. Last week, the two sides agreed to renew the agreement on scientific cooperation till 2025 at the 15th India-EU Summit, which was led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from […]

Siberian heatwave: Wildfires rage in Arctic, sea ice melts

7:33 pm July 24, 2020

Geneva: The UN weather agency warned on Friday that average temperatures in Siberia were 10 degrees Celsius (18 Fahrenheit) above average last month, a spate of exceptional heat that has fanned devastating fires in the Arctic Circle and contributed to a rapid depletion in ice sea off Russia’s Arctic coast. “The Arctic is heating more than twice as fast as the […]

WHO report on Wuhan virus mission expected soon

WHO chief upbraids Pompeo over ‘unacceptable’ allegations

11:40 pm July 23, 2020

Geneva: The director-general of the World Health Organization has upbraided US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for making “untrue and unacceptable” allegations, responding to media reports saying Pompeo had claimed the health agency chief was “bought” by China. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus insisted WHO was focusing on “saving lives” as he lashed out Thursday at the comments that British media said Pompeo had […]

Trump slams media for 'blocking' alleged graft cases against Biden

World coronavirus cases near 15M; Trump says things will get worse

9:33 pm July 22, 2020

Philadelphia: The global tally of people infected with the coronavirus neared 15 million Wednesday, while in the worst-hit pandemic hot spot of the United States, President Donald Trump warned the pandemic would “get worse before it gets better.” With COVID-19 set to pass another shocking milestone, Trump delivered his first virus briefing after a three-month […]

UK, US, Canada accuse Russia of hacking virus vaccine trials

8:50 pm July 16, 2020

London: Britain, the United States and Canada say Russia is trying to steal information from researchers seeking a COVID-19 vaccine. The three nations alleged Thursday that hacking group APT29, also known as Cozy Bear and said to be part of the Russian intelligence service, is attacking academic and pharmaceutical research institutions involved in coronavirus vaccine development. The persistent and ongoing attacks […]