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India's main shares indexes were trading flat on Friday as domestic coronavirus cases crossed two million, dampening positive sentiment from the previous session following the central bank's support to the economy.

At the foreign bank exchange, the domestic unit opened on a weak note and went on to touch a low of 75.04 before staging a quick mild recovery, though still trading in the red.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday encouraged the National Rifle Association to relocate to Texas, shortly after the state attorney generals in New York and Washington announced lawsuits against the gun organization.

The warning came as the United States steps up a broad diplomatic campaign against Beijing, accusing it of everything from massive human rights violations to attempting to colonise the South China Sea region.

Facebook Inc will allow employees to work from home until July 2021 due to the coronavirus outbreak and will give them $1,000 for home office needs, a spokeswoman for the social media giant said on Thursday.

Singapore has charged a director of Citadelle Corporate Services Pte Ltd for falsifying letters related to Wirecard, the troubled German payments firm, according to charge sheets filed on July 3.

Uber Technologies Inc said demand for its fooddelivery service more than doubled in the second quarter as many users remained largely homebound, while demand for ridehailing trips was only marginally recovering from pandemic rockbottom.

The Israeli army said it attacked targets in the northern Gaza Strip late Thursday after Palestinian militants launched explosive balloons from the territory into Israel.

The Mexican coastal city of Acapulco pulled a pair of controversial video ads Thursday touting the faded resorts reputation as an anything goes tourism destination because they weren't appropriate during the coronavirus pandemic.

The United States on Thursday began delivering aid to Lebanon in the aftermath of a massive deadly explosion, amid longstanding concerns about how officials can ensure that supplies get to those in need, and not to the Iranianbacked Hezbollah.

The Virginia Parole Board and its former chairperson violated state law and its own policies and procedures in granting the release of a man convicted decades ago of killing a Richmond police officer, according to a report from the state's government watc...

While insisting that he was till loyal to Gehlot, Prashant Bairwa made the startling claim that the rebel leader could have enjoyed the support of '40 to 45' MLAs and not the 18 he has now.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a bill from Senator Josh Hawley banning federal employees from using videosharing app TikTok on governmentissued devices, amid threats from the White House to ban the company.

Authorities in a city in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia have quarantined a village after a resident there who had caught an intestinal type of plague died, the health commission of the city said on Thursday.

Hundreds of migrant children rapidly expelled from the United States under a coronavirus immigration policy are returning to shelters in Guatemala where virus testing and bed capacity are regularly stretched to their limits.

Northern Ireland halted its plan to reopen all pubs and ordered citizens to wear face masks indoors on Thursday after reporting its highest daily number of coronavirus cases since May.