Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under increasing pressure to impose a nationwide lockdown as the country grapples with the world's worst Covid-19 outbreak.

For hundreds of thousands of Muslim households in Lebanon, the country's financial crisis means the Ramadan Iftar is a stripped down affair, with families who have come together to eat leaving hungry.

The former chief physician of the Siberian hospital where jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was treated immediately after his poisoning last summer has been found alive, Russian state media TASS reported on Monday.