With the COVID-19 pandemic wrecking the livelihoods in Kenya, Children in African countries have turned to working in quarries and rubbish dumps. Most of the children believe that they have been left without any other options.

Children resort to working in quarries, rubbish dumps in Kenya

United States & Britain have accused the Russia of cyber attacks against Tokyo Olympics which was scheduled to take place this year. Both companies made separate announcements, "Russia's military has been accused of attempting to disrupt the Tokyo event".

US, UK: Russian hackers targeted Tokyo Olympics

US, UK accuses Russia of cyber attacks against Tokyo Olympics

United States has removed Sudan from the list of the states that sponsor terrorism. In a tweet, US President Donald Trump has announced that African nations' transitional government has agreed to pay $335 Mn to American terror victims.

United States removes Sudan from the list of states that sponsor terrorism

Belarus police will now be permitted to use combat weapons in the streets if needed, the Interior Ministry said on Monday

Belarus allows police to use firearms against protesters

The novel coronavirus can survive on surfaces of items like banknotes and phones for 28 days in dark and cool conditions, a study by Australia's national science agency claimed.

Coronavirus can survive on phones, banknotes for 28 days: Study

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wrote an open letter to Pope Francis on Saturday and called on the Roman Catholic Church to apologise for atrocities on indigenous people of Mexico during the Spanish conquest in 1500s.

Mexico asks Pope to apologise for atrocities during Spanish conquests

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un issued a tearful apology over the weekend for failing to live up to the trust his people have placed in him

North Korea: Kim Jong-Un tears up during a rare display of emotion

Police in Kabul are grappling with a crime wave that is only expected to worsen as US and foreign forces pull out of Afghanistan.

Kabul police to use deadly force against criminals

Democratic senators including vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris on Monday painted President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett as a threat to the Obamacare healthcare law

Donald Trump's SC nominee Amy Coney Barrett faces democratic opposition on Obamacare law

Malaysia’s opposition leader Ibrahim Anwar met the Southeast Asian nation’s king on Tuesday morning.

Malaysia’s Ibrahim Anwar meets king in challenge for leadership

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden pulled further ahead of President Donald Trump in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania

US Election 2020: Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Biden lead over Trump growing in Wisconsin

With coronavirus cases skyrocketing in Britain again, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the House of Commons about a three-tier lockdown plan to focus on areas where the potentially deadly virus is spreading.

Boris Johnson announces 3-tier lockdown plan in Britain

Johnson & Johnson said Monday it had temporarily halted its Covid-19 vaccine trial because one of its participants had become sick

Johnson & Johnson pauses Covid vaccine trial as participant falls ill

Pakistan has improved its full compliance on only two of the 40 FATF recommendations, the APG report noted.

FATF's special group to review Pak's progress | FATF 2-Day meet

The Irish for Biden campaign was launched on Friday in County Louth, where Mr Biden's maternal great-grandparents immigrated from in the 1850's

US Election 2020: 'Irish For Biden' campaign launched in ancestral home

This announcement is the result of international efforts trying to stop the war which has killed at least 400 people since it broke out on September 27.

Armenia, Azerbaijan agree to ceasefire: Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Suga took office in mid-September after his predecessor, Shinzo Abe, stepped down for health reasons. By continuing Abe's hard-line stance against South Korea

Japan tells South Korea it will skip trilateral summit over labor dispute