Trump threatens to cut WHO funding, China lifts Wuhan travel ban President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to cut US funding to the World Health Organisation, accusing it of bias toward China, where the authorities lifted a two-and-a-half month travel ban on Wuhan, the city that spawned the global coronavirus pandemic.

New bribe details on 2018, 2022 World Cup votes as execs charged Two former executives with US media giant Fox were charged with corruption, bank fraud and money-laundering on Monday as US federal prosecutors shed fresh light on the scandal-tainted bidding war for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

2020 OPPO Overseas Theme design competition winners announced 2020 OPPO Overseas Theme design competition winners announced

Guinea president's party wins majority in disputed polls Guinean President Alpha Conde's party won more than two-thirds of the seats in legislative elections held last month that were boycotted by the main opposition, the country's electoral commission said.

In first, UN Security Council approves resolutions remotely The UN Security Council on Monday for the first time approved resolutions remotely after painstaking negotiations among diplomats who are teleworking due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Mali votes despite coronavirus and security fears Malians voted in a long-delayed parliamentary election on Sunday, barely a day after the country recorded its first coronavirus death and with the leading opposition figure kidnapped and believed to be in the hands of jihadists.

Virus death toll passes 20,000, three billion under lockdown More than three billion people around the world were living under lockdown on Wednesday as governments stepped up their efforts against the coronavirus pandemic which has left more than 20,000 people dead.

The 15th Devotion Music Awards announced

Hoàng Thùy Linh won four awards including Singer of The Year to make history at the 15th Devotion Musical Awards.

Several dead in unrest in southern Guinea Several people have been killed in southern Guinea, according to local officials, in an outbreak of violence after the country's contested constitutional referendum.

Israel right-wing parties boycott parliament re-opening Israeli right-wing parties backing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boycotted the re-opening of parliament Monday to protest what they called the "dictatorial" conduct of their centrist rivals.