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Tokyo, Aug 28: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has planned to step down "because of health issues", state-media reported on Friday. According to a report in NHK, Japan's national broadcaster, Abe is scheduled to hold a news conference later in the day to provide further details of his decision. The development comes after Abe's visit to a Tokyo hospital twice over the past two weeks, fuelling

Aug 28: Chinese internet-technology company ByteDance on Thursday said it is moving fast to address issues related to its video-sharing platform TikTok's ban in India and the US, amidst reports of its CEO Kevin Mayer resigning due to "changes in the political environment". Mayer has resigned in just four months of becoming the chief executive officer of the Chinese video-sharing application. He

New York, Aug 28: India is on course to have an "approved" vaccine within the first quarter of the calendar year 2021 and Pune based Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's largest vaccine manufacturer by volume, is well placed to deliver the first vaccine, according to a report out Thursday from Bernstein Research, a top Wall Street research and brokerage firm. "Globally, there are four

Mexico City, Aug 27: The number of people, who have died of COVID-19 in Mexico, has risen by 626 to 62,076 within the past 24 hours, Jose Luis Alomia, the director of epidemiology at the Health Ministry, said. He also said on late Wednesday that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases had increased by 5,267 to 573,888 within the same period of time. A day earlier, the Latin American nation

Washington, Aug 27: Seeking re-election, US Vice President Mike Pence has launched a frontal attack against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, saying he has been a "cheerleader" for communist China and would be nothing more than a "Trojan horse" for a radical left. Pence, 61, formally accepted the Republican Party's vice-presidential nomination on the third night of the National

Christchurch, Aug 27: The white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The judge imposed the maximum available sentence on 29-year-old Australian gunman Brenton Harrison Tarrant, the first time the sentence has been imposed in New Zealand. Judge Cameron Mander said Tarrant's crimes were so

New Delhi, Aug 25: Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday said it is deeply unfair for Indian students to sit for national exams amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. She said millions have been affected due to floods in states like Bihar, Gujarat and Assam and called for the postponement of NEET 2020 and JEE Main 2020 entrance exams. "It's deeply unfair that students of India are

Washington, Aug 25: US and Chinese trade envoys discussed strengthening coordination of their government's economic policies during a phone meeting Tuesday, the Ministry of Commerce announced. The announcement gave no details of the meeting held as part of the Phase 1 truce aimed at ending a tariff war between the two biggest global economies that has disrupted worldwide trade. President Xi

Washington, Aug 25: Video-sharing social networking company TikTok filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over an executive order banning any US transactions with its parent company ByteDance. In the 39-page indictment, US President Donald Trump, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and US Department of Commerce were listed as defendants, Xinhua news agency reported. According to the

Washington, Aug 25: Making a passionate plea to re-elect Republican Donald Trump, top Indian-American politician Nikki Haley said that the US President has a "record of strength and success", while his Democratic rival Joe Biden has a "record of weakness and failure." Haley, who was the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, on the first day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) warned