Khartoum, August 12 (IANS) The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have announced that it had killed 26 members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in clashes near the city of El-Obeid in North Kordofan Stat

Islamabad, August 12 (IANS) Former Prime Minister of Pakistan and chief of political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is faced with most challenging times after being sentenced to jail and being disqualifie

Islamabad, August 12 (IANS) Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, a lawmaker belonging to Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) has been selected as caretaker Prime Minister, a statement from the the Prime Minister's Office said on

Hong Kong, August 11 (IANS) Chinese military scientists have claimed that they have developed a new cooling system that allows high-energy lasers to operate “infinitely” without any build-up of wast

Moscow, August 11(IANS) After 47 years, Russia is set to return to the Moon with its Luna 25 lander mission. Luna-25 took off atop a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Vostochny launch facility in Russia at 2:10 a.m

Washington, August 11 (IANS) Former US President Donald Trump as well as his close personal aide Walt Nauta have pleaded not guilty to the latest charges in the case of mishandling classified documents. Trum

Beijing, August 11 (IANS) At least 29 people have been killed in disasters triggered by the recent torrential rain in China's Hebei province, while 16 people still remained unaccounted for, local authoritie

Colombo, August 10 (IANS): Sri Lanka will join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) and sign Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries

Phnom Penh, August 10 (IANS): Khuon Sudary will take office as the president of the National Assembly of Cambodia in the new five-year-term National Assembly, becoming the first woman to hold this top job in th

Quito, August 10 (IANS): Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio has been killed, the country's president Guillermo Lasso has said, vowing the "crime will not go unpunished". L

Beijing, August 9 (IANS): At least 33 people died in rain-related incidents in Beijing, authorities in the Chinese capital said on Wednesday. There are 18 others still missing, including a rescuer, Xia Linma

Brasilia, August 9 (IANS): The eight countries that share the Amazon basin have fallen short of an agreed goal to end deforestation, leaving each nation to pursue its own conservation goals. Delegates from B

United Nations, August 7 (IANS): The Unicef has raised an alarm over the impact of current global heat waves on children, saying that South Asia has the highest percentage of kids exposed to extreme high temper

Jerusalem, August 8 (IANS) The Israel Army on Tuesday demolished the home of a Palestinian gunman who killed two Israeli brothers in the West Bank in February. Abd el-Fatah Kharousha, 49, carried out a drive

Colombo, August 8 (IANS) Cricket legend and the Unicef South Asia Regional Goodwill Ambassador, Sachin Tendulkar joined the world’s children’s charity organisation to help 3.9 million Sri Lankan peo

Kiev, August 7 (IANS) The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) on Monday announced that it has detained a female information for Russia "who was preparing an airstrike in the Mykolaiv region during the visit o

Phnom Penh, August 7 (IANS) Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni appointed Hun Manet as the new Prime Minister on Monday after the latter's father and outgoing premier Hun Sen announced to step down after servin

San Francisco, August 6 (IANS) The global ransomware attacks are at an all-time high, and the US is the primary target, a new report has said. The findings from the internet security firm Malwarebytes showed

Kiev, August 6 (IANS) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that a Russian guided air bomb has hit a blood transfusion centre in north-eastern Ukraine. Zelensky said that rescuers were now trying t

Ulyanovsk, August 6 (IANS) The theme for the ongoing third International BRICS Youth Camp in Russia's Ulyanovsk region is ‘media’, and on Saturday, one of the major topics of discussion was the