Berlin, July 23 (AP): Germany's national railway operator estimated on Friday that last week's flooding caused 1.3 billion euros' (USD 1.5 billion) worth of damage to its network, offering another g
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) Chinese President Xi Jinping has made an unannounced visit to Tibet. Video clips shared on Chinese social media by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), a Washington-based advoca
Bucaramanga (Colombia), July 22 (AP): As the coronavirus pandemic squeezed Colombia, the Romero family was in need of money to pay the mortgage. Mauricio Romero Medina's USD 790 a month pension as a retired
Quito (Ecuador), July 22 (AP): Rival gangs of inmates fought in two prisons in Ecuador, killing at least 18 people and injuring dozens, authorities said on Thursday.
Violence broke out on Wednesday in the ma
Beijing (China), July 22 (AP): The Chinese host of this year's meeting of the U.N. World Heritage Committee has defended the body's proposal to label the Great Barrier Reef as in danger against Australi
Beijing, July 22 (PTI): China on Thursday categorically rejected the WHO's plan for the second phase of coronavirus origin-tracing in Wuhan, especially to probe the lab leak theory, as it dismissed reports
LONDON, JULY 22 (IANS): A new report has revealed that a whopping 2.5 billion tonnes of food is wasted each year, contributing to 10 per cent of all greenhouse gases released annually in the atmosphere, includi
Kuala Lumpur, July 22 (AP): Indonesia has converted nearly its entire oxygen production to medical use just to meet the demand from COVID-19 patients struggling to breathe. Overflowing hospitals in Malaysia had
NEW YORK, JULY 21 (IANS): Scientists have found viruses nearly 15,000-years-old in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China. Most of those viruses, which survived because they had remained frozen
Los Angeles, July 21 (AP): The chair of former President Donald Trump's 2017 inaugural committee was arrested Tuesday on charges alleging he secretly conspired to influence US policy to benefit the United A
Port-Au-Prince (Haiti), July 21 (AP): Haiti's government installed a new prime minister, while officials mourned assassinated President Jovenel Mo se and arrested at least three police officers implicated i
United Nations, July 21 (AP): Myanmar's military rulers are again seeking to replace the country's ambassador to the United Nations, who opposed their February 1 ouster of civilian leader Aung San Suu K
Tokyo, July 21 (AP): The United States, Japan and South Korea on Wednesday reaffirmed their commitment to work together on North Korea's denuclearisation and other regional threats but made no progress in b
Beijing, July 21 (PTI): At least 13 people were killed and over a lakh evacuated in China's central Henan province hit by the heaviest rainfall in 1,000 years, prompting President Xi Jinping on Wednesday to
VAN HORN, Texas, July 20 (AP) — Jeff Bezos blasted into space Tuesday on his rocket company’s first flight with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own s
Hong Kong, July 20 (AP): The trial of the first person to be charged under Hong Kong's sweeping national security law ended Tuesday after nearly a month, and now observers will wait for a verdict in the lan
Johannesburg, July 20 (PTI): Former South African president Jacob Zuma's long-running corruption trial has been postponed to August 10 as a high court on Tuesday granted his request for a delay in the case.
Moscow, July 20 (AP): With much fanfare, Russian aircraft makers on Tuesday unveiled a prototype of a new fighter jet that features stealth capabilities and other advanced characteristics.
Russian President
Washington, July 20 (IANS): "Horrific things" happened to Native American children at boarding schools run by the US government, according to a media report.
Hundreds of thousands of Native America
Boston, July 20 (AP): Human rights and press freedom activists are up in arms about a new report on NSO Group, the notorious Israeli hacker-for-hire company.
The report, by a global media consortium, expands