North Korea has ordered a strict national lockdown after confirming its first official Covid infections.

A Sri Lankan court banned ex- PM Mahinda 16 others from leaving the country. Ranil Wickremesinghe, will take oath as the PM.

In China, Beijing was hit by a wave of panic buying on Thursday as residents rushed to stock up essentials amid fears of lockdown.

Tesla Chief Executive and Twitter's new owner Elon Musk has said he would reverse Twitter's ban on former U.S. President Donald Trump.

Veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, a Palestinian-American who was among the network's most prominent figures,

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on regional officials to act quickly in battling forest fires amid a series of blazes in Siberia.