UNITED NATIONS, JULY 14 (IANS): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said that 11 billion doses are needed to vaccinate 70 per cent of the world to end the Covid-19 pandemic.
"Pledges of dos
UNITED NATIONS, JULY 14 (IANS): Henrietta Fore, executive director of UN Children's Fund (Unicef), has informed the UN secretary-general of her intention to resign, "to devote herself to a family healt
Mansehra (Pakistan), July 14 (AP): A bus carrying Chinese and Pakistani construction workers on a slippery mountainous road in northwest Pakistan fell into a ravine Wednesday, killing at least 13 people, includ
Beijing, July 14 (PTI): In a significant policy statement on the Taliban which is making big gains in its offensive in Afghanistan, China has asked it to make a clean break from all terrorist forces, especially
Colombo, July 13 (PTI): Sri Lanka's Catholic church on Tuesday demanded that action be taken against former president Maithripala Sirisena and ex-prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe for their failures to pr
Beijing, July 13 (AP): Tech experts in China who find a weakness in computer security would be required to tell the government and couldn't sell that knowledge under rules further tightening the Communist P
BANGKOK, July 13 (AP): Lawyers for ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Monday they have been informed by the military-installed government that four new charges of corruption have been filed against her
NEW DELHI, JULY 13 (IANS): The spokesperson for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan, Suhail Shaheen, has said that Pakistan is welcome to help the Taliban arrive at a negotiated settlement in Afghanistan but it &
Beijing, July 13 (AP): Tech experts in China who find a weakness in computer security would be required to tell the government and couldn't sell that knowledge under rules further tightening the Communist P
Islamabad, July 13 (PTI): Pakistan authorities have confiscated copies of a school textbook in Punjab province for printing the picture of Nobel laureate Malala Yousufszai in the list of important personalities
SEOUL, JULY 13 (IANS): South Korea on Tuesday protested against Japan's renewed territorial claims to the disputed islets lying halfway between the two countries, called Dokdo by Seoul and Takeshima by Toky
Washington, July 13 (AP): The Biden administration on Monday renewed genocide allegations against China for repression of Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in its northwest Xinjiang region.
It also warned
United Nations/Geneva, July 13 (PTI): The Delta variant is ripping around the world at a scorching pace, driving a new spike in cases and deaths, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said, warning that the
Baghdad, July 13 (AP): The death toll from a catastrophic blaze that erupted at a coronavirus hospital ward in southern Iraq the previous day rose to 58 on Tuesday, Iraqi medical officials said.
Two health o
UNITED NATIONS, JULY 13 (IANS): Around one tenth of the global population, between 720 million people and 811 million, were undernourished last year, according to a UN report .
Global hunger levels have skyr
Kathmandu, July 13 (PTI): Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba on Tuesday became the country's Prime Minister for the fifth time, media reports said.
President Bidya Devi Bhandari appointed him i
Kabul, July 12 (AP): The top US commander in Afghanistan relinquished his command at a ceremony in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Monday, taking the United States a step closer to ending its 20-year war.
The
Geneva, July 12 (IANS): While human genome editing technology has opened the doors for treating rare diseases, there are also risks associated with it. To establish human genome editing as a tool for publi
Kathmandu, July 12 (PTI): In a landmark verdict, Nepal's Supreme Court on Monday directed President Bidya Devi Bhandari to appoint Nepali Congress chief Sher Bahadur Deuba as prime minister by Tuesday and r
Washington, July 12 (AP): The Biden administration on Sunday upheld a Trump-era rejection of nearly all of China's significant maritime claims in the South China Sea.
The administration also warned China