Maria Hernandez

Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya on Friday asked her supporters to sign an online form demanding a recount of last Sunday's presidential election. Incumbent President Lukashenko won it, but the opposition is…

Misinformation about the new coronavirus has claimed the lives of at least 800 people worldwide in the first three months of this year, researchers say in the scientific journal American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, according…

Elephant suffering in Thailand has risen sharply. More and more of these animals are used to entertain tourists. The entertainment with the elephants will increase in Thailand and other Asian countries due to the corona crisis,…

Poland on Monday called for an extraordinary summit of the European Union on the situation in Belarus. The call comes after fierce clashes between protesters and police in the capital Minsk following Sunday's controversial…

After the Chinese TikTok owner ByteDance, US President Donald Trump is now also targeting internet giant Tencent. He signed a presidential decree banning transactions with the company's hugely popular Asian app WeChat after 45…

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has ordered more support for the people of the border town of Kaesong, where a lockdown has been declared due to concerns about the coronavirus. He has released "food and money" to "stabilize the…

Hurricane Isaias made landfall again in the United States, this time in the state of North Carolina. Previously, the hurricane was already home to the state of Florida and the Bahamas. The hurricane is expected to move further…

In the Afghan city of Jalalabad, fighting continues about fourteen hours after an attack on the prison. The attackers have entrenched themselves in a residential building in the area, says a spokesman for the governor of the…

Nepal has reopened its mountains, including Mount Everest, to climbers and other tourists. That should bring more income to the country. Authorities have said that. The Himalayan country closed its borders in March, just before…

In the United States, 1,592 new corona deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours. It is the highest number of fatalities in 2.5 months. This is evident from data from Johns Hopkins University. More than 60,000 new infections…