Top 10 world news: Japan PM supports Tokyo 2020, Uk Covid cases rise, and more
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Keir Starmer, leader of UK's Labour Party, will be self-isolating after he learned that one of his children had tested positive for coronavirus. This news has come at a time when PM Boris Johnson, FM Rishi Sunak are also self-isolating after they came in close contact with Sajid Javid, who got infected by coronavirus. On the other side of the world, tension is rising in Japan with respect to surge in Covid cases in the Olympic village. Talking about that, the Japan PM Yoshihide Suga denied all rumours of him getting pressurised by the IOC for conducting Tokyo 2020.
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Japan’s Prime Minister, Yoshihide Suga, has claimed Tokyo is ready to host the Olympic Games and has denied being pressurised by International Olympic Committee into holding the games.
Following a statement by American climate tsar John Kerry urging China to curb emissions, Beijing has warned the US that climate cooperation with Washington will be governed by overall Sino-US relations.
A little after the UK’s health secretary tested positive and Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Finance Minister Rishi Sunak also self-isolated, another UK leader will be quarantining.
At least 25 people have died in China's flood-stricken central province of Henan, a dozen of them in a subway line in its capital that was drenched by what weather officials called the heaviest rains for 1,000 years. Here are a few images.
Russia unveiled a prototype of a new Sukhoi fifth-generation fighter jet at its annual MAKS air show.
Each player in the women's team was fined $1,768 by the EHF for not wearing bikinis. Norwegian Volleyball Federation president Eirik Sordahl slammed the move, saying: "In 2021, it shouldn't even be an issue."
Despite spending similar amounts, men's purchases cause 16 per cent more climate-warming emissions than women's, a study has revealed.
Liverpool has been removed from the UNESCO’s world heritage list as experts think there has been overdevelopment in the British city in the last few years.
NASA has said that the Hubble Space Telescope returned to full science operations and captured images of two unusual galaxies.
A study has revealed that a Lebanese family is spending five times the minimum wage on food, and this does not include other necessities such as the additional cost of water, electricity, and cooking gas.