New Delhi, June 6 (IANS): Pakistani establishment appears to have realised that in case the Taliban captured Afghanistan by force, there can be a serious blowback against Islamabad, which it can ill-afford.
NAY PYI TAW, JUNE 6 (IANS): Myanmar is willing to work together with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to safeguard the domestic stability of the country and implement the relevant consensus, S
Kabul, June 6 (AP): A minivan carrying civilian passengers in northwest Afghanistan was hit by a roadside bomb, leaving at least 11 passengers dead, including three children, an Afghan official said Sunday.
COLOMBO, JUNE 6 (IANS): Heavy rains followed by landslides and flooding in Sri Lanka killed at least 14 people and has affected over 250,000 more in the past two days with warnings that adverse weather conditio
Beijing, June 6 (PTI): China has authorised the emergency use of CoronaVac, a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Chinese firm Sinovac, for children aged between 3 and 17 years, Sinovac Chairman Yin Weidong said.
Kolkata, June 6 (IANS) Villagers in Myanmar fought security forces with catapults and crossbows in the Ayeyarwady river delta region, with local media reporting that 20 lives were lost in the violence.
State
Seoul, June 5 (IANS): Reports of ransomware attacks in South Korea have surged in the past year, shutting down hospitals to shopping malls as the coronavirus pandemic led to increased online activities.
Ankara, June 5 (IANS): Turkey has discovered 135 billion cubic meters of addition natural gas in the Black Sea, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
The new discovery in the Amasra-1 field has raised th
Moscow, June 5 (IANS): Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed the need to join efforts globally in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
The world has not yet recovered from the difficulties and res
San Francisco, June 5 (IANS): Facebook has suspended US former President Donald Trump from its platforms for two years, the maximum penalty under a newly revealed set of rules for suspending public figures, a m
Brasilia, June 5 (IANS): Record levels of deforestation continue unabated in the Brazilian Amazon and in May alone, 1,180 square kilometres of the rainforest were chopped down, according to official data.
It
Brussels, June 5 (IANS): Starting from Saturday, Belarusian air carriers' will be banned from flying over the European Union (EU) airspace and also using runways in response to the forced diversion of a Rya
Washington, June 5 (IANS): An unruly US passenger was arrested after he allegedly tried to breach the cockpit on a Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to Nashville, said authorities Friday.
Delta on Frid
Moscow, June 5 (IANS) It is unfounded for the United States to accuse China of causing the Covid-19 pandemic, a columnist of Russia's RIA Novosti news agency has said.
"The only information on which
New Delhi, June 5 (PTI): Social media behemoth Facebook said the account of former US President Donald Trump will remain suspended for two years, and post that period it will re-assess the ban.
Facebook, alo
Nay Pyi Taw, June 5 (IANS) Envoys of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are in Myanmar to hold talks with top officials about the current political situation in the country following the Februar
London, June 4 (IANS): The US' top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci, who has over the last week been embroiled in criticism of his emails, is an "undeniable asset", said the White House
MEXICO CITY, JUNE 4 (IANS): A massive water-filled sinkhole which opened up for unknown reasons in a field in central Mexico is getting bigger, local authorities said.
The sinkhole, which was just five metre
Lahore, June 4 (PTI): A top Pakistani court here has set aside a death sentence handed down to a Christian couple by a lower court seven years ago and acquitted them of blasphemy charges, citing lack of evidenc
KABUL, JUNE 4 (IANS): Afghanistan's Acting Minister of Public Health Wahid Majrooh has expressed concerns over the coronavirus situation in the country and urged the civilians to follow the government-issue