Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday said joint efforts are the only way to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic and called for fair distribution of vaccines and expedited inoculation drive globally. ...
Beijing has reported its first local omicron infection, according to state media, weeks before the Winter Olympic Games are due to start. ...
An undersea volcano erupted in spectacular fashion near the Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday, sending large waves crashing across the shore and people rushing to higher ground. ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday launched Pakistan's first-ever National Security Policy based on a citizen-centric framework and focusing more on boosting the country's flagging economy and its ...
A top Sri Lankan court here has sentenced to death a former prisons commissioner over the Welikada Prison riot in 2012 which killed at least 27 inmates. ...
The number of persons held in connection with the disturbance in the Kazakh city of Shymkent has surpassed 3,500, according to regional TV channel Otyrar.kz, citing the director of the city's ...
Citing preliminary data, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has said that the Covid-19 vaccines remain effective against severe disease and hospitalisation caused by the Omicron coronavirus variant. ...
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday alleged that minorities in India were being targeted by extremist groups and warned that such an agenda "is a real and present threat" to regional peace. ...
An explosion in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan on Monday killed nine children and wounded four, according to the office of a Taliban-appointed governor. ...
A court in Myanmar sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison on Monday after finding her guilty of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies and violating ...
Nineteen people, including 9 children, have been killed in an apartment fire in New York City, in what the city's fire commissioner called one of the worst blazes in recent memory.
The Omicron Covid-19 variant is likely to be 105 per cent more transmissible than Delta, according to research by French scientists. ...
At least 164 people have died in the wake of violent protests in Kazakhstan this week, including 103 in the largest city Almaty, media reported, citing the health ministry.
At least seven people were killed and three were missing after a cliff collapsed onto boats carrying tourists on a lake in Brazil, authorities said on Saturday. ...
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday spoke to his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian, focusing on the Chabahar port project, the situation in Afghanistan and Iran's landmark ...
A traffic accident on Saturday involving a microbus and a larger bus left at least 16 people dead and 18 others injured in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, health officials said. The crash took place when a ...
At least 21 people have died in Pakistan's Murree after their vehicles were stranded following heavy snowfall overnight, local media reported on Saturday. ...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday sought to dismiss the notion that visa norms are set to be relaxed for Indians in pursuit of a free trade agreement (FTA) with India.
Fourteen people were killed in a landslide in China's Guizhou Province, local authorities said Tuesday. ...
Even as the Omicron variant is spreading rapidly across the world, and outpacing the previous Delta strain, several Russian and Danish experts have said that the pandemic will end up as seasonal ...
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