Colombo, June 1 (IANS): Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigations Department announced that it had appointed a 10-member team of detectives to investigate the incidents surrounding the burning X-Press Pearl conta
Abuja, June 1 (IANS): Eleven students who were abducted following an attack on a school in Nigeria's Niger state, have been released, a government official said.
Mary Noel-Berje, a spokeswoman for the st
Geneva, June 1 (IANS): The Covid-19 pandemic has proved that the world needs a pandemic treaty to strengthen both the World Health Organization (WHO) and global health security, WHO Director-General Tedros Adha
Gaza City, May 31 (AP): A senior Hamas official said Monday that Israel must halt its aggression in both Gaza and Jerusalem if it wants calm following an 11-day war earlier this month.
Khalil al-Haya spoke a
Singapore, May 31 (PTI): Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Monday the deadly coronavirus will not disappear completely and will keep infecting people for years to come, urging citizens to c
Jerusalem, May 31 (PTI): Israel could be headed for a break from the "Bibi-regime" as several former allies of longest-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seem to have joined hands with politica
Beijing, May 31 (AP): China's ruling Communist Party will ease birth limits to allow all couples to have three children instead of two to cope with the rapid rise in the average age of its population, a sta
Brasilia, May 30 (IANS): Thousands of Brazilians took to the streets across major cities in the country to protest against the Covid policies of President Jair Bolsonaro and his government.
In Rio de Janeiro
Cairo, May 30 (AP): Egypt and Israel are holding high-level talks in both countries Sunday to shore up a fragile truce between Israel and the Hamas militant group, and rebuild the Gaza Strip after a punishing 1
Kabul, May 30 (AP): A mortar shell hit a wedding ceremony in northern Afghanistan, killing at least seven people, mostly children, and wounding at least four others, a police spokesman said.
Taliban insurgen
Washington, May 30 (IANS): The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 169.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.52 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
In its latest upda
Bogota, May 30 (IANS): At least six people have died in protests in the Colombian city of Cali, local media reported.
Newspaper El Tiempo said there were six deaths on Saturday, while RCN Radio put the toll
Rome, May 30 (IANS): Italian investigators have released two of the three men who were detained following a deadly cable car accident last week, with the third under house arrest, as officials continue their in
London, May 30 (IANS) UK PM Boris Johnson has married his fiance Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at the Westminster Cathedral in front of about 30 close friends and family members, a media report said on Su
Hanoi, May 29 (AP): Vietnam has discovered a new coronavirus variant that's a hybrid of strains first found in India and the UK, the Vietnamese health minister said Saturday.
Nguyen Thanh Long said scien
Berlin, May 29 (IANS): Forged Covid-19 vaccination certificates are appearing in Germany, with the numbers expected to grow, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) said on Saturday.
According to local poli
Damascus, May 29 (IANS): At least two people were killed and 317 others injured during celebratory gunfire in Syria marking President Bashar al-Assad's re-election to a fourth term, a war monitor reported o
Brussels, May 29 (IANS): The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for children aged 12 to 15.
Pfizer-BioNTech becomes the first vaccine to be authorise
Colombo, May 29 (IANS): Sri Lanka's Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) said acid rains would possibly hit the island nation as a result of the burning X-Press Pearl container ship in the waters
Bangkok, May 29 (IANS): A total of 22,101 lodged in jails across Thailand have been infected with Covid-19, a government official confirmed.
In a statement on Friday, Veerakit Harnpariphan, deputy director g