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Special Desk Yoshihide Suga may be the new leader to succeed Shinzo Abe, as Prime Minister in Japan. Last month Abe had announced his resignation for ill health. Suga, 71, serves as chief cabinet secretary in the current administration. He is considered a close ally of Abe and likely to …

Special Desk Former Chinese virologist from Hong Kong Dr Li-Meng Yan has put up a claim, the SARS-CoV-2 virus was developed in a government laboratory in Wuhan. She said she had evidence to back her claim. IN a TV interview Li-Meng maintained that the virus is a highly mutant one …

Special Desk TikTok has rejected Microsoft bid to buy the US operations thereby paving way for Oracle to make an attempt. The US had given 15 September as the deadline for the Chinese-owned app to sell or shut down. The Trump administration claims TikTok and other Chinese apps are national …

Special Desk Coming up, after much delay is the first peace talk between the Afghan government and the Taliban slated to begin in Qatar that the world is looking ahead to. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has termed the meeting as historic before he flew to Doha for the …

Jubilee News Desk Police fired pepper-sprayed balls at crowds in Hong Kong protesting against government decision to delay legislative elections in the territory and about 100 people were arrested during the demonstrations. The elections were slated on September 6, but the government took the decision to postpone them by a …

Special Desk Over two lakh people have been ordered to evacuate areas of Japan threatened by an approaching storm — Typhoon Haishen. Typhoon Haishen is expected to intensify, bringing heavy rain, storm surges and winds of more than 100mph (160km/h). It will move past Kyushu and is expected to make …

Jubilee News Desk Russian scientists have claimed early tests with their coronavirus vaccine showed signs of an immune response. In the first published report by the medical journal The Lancet the report said every participant developed antibodies to fight the virus and had no serious side effects. Russia licensed the …

Special Desk IN a major development, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has called for charges against policemen who shot two black Americans, Jacob Blake and Breonna Taylor. Biden, who has a lead over President Donald Trump, a Republican, in opinion polls ahead of election slated November, did not specify what …

Special Desk Nancy Pelosi, who scolds President Donald Trump for not wearing a mask, has been pictured without a face covering at a salon in San Francisco. Nancy, who is said to be the most powerful elected US Democrat, her footage showed the House of Representatives speaker inside the premises, …

Special Desk With Mustapha Adib becoming the new prime minister, French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Lebanon to swiftly form government. Lebanon designated its ambassador to Germany as the country’s new prime minister, as the nation still reels from a devastating economic crisis and the aftermath of a deadly …