Hong Kong, May 11 (AP): Hong Kong officials dropped a plan to mandate foreign domestic workers be vaccinated against the coronavirus, after hearing international criticism the move would be discriminatory.
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Gaza City, May 11 (AP): Israel unleashed new airstrikes on Gaza early Tuesday, hitting the high-rise home of a Hamas field commander and two border tunnels dug by militants, as Hamas and other armed groups fire
Jerusalem, May 10 (AP): Israeli police firing tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets clashed with stone-throwing Palestinians at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site on Monday, the latest in a series of confron
MADRID, MAY 10 (IANS): A key expert has warned that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over after Spaniards celebrated the end of a six-month lockdown with abandon and paid little heed to precautions like mas
SEOUL, MAY 10 (IANS): South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Monday that his government will seek to find a way for restored talks between Seoul and Pyongyang and between North Korea and the US.
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Beijing, May 10 (AP): China's government criticised US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday for urging the World Health Organisation to invite Taiwan, the island democracy claimed by Beijing as part
Kathmandu, May 10 (PTI): Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli lost a trust vote in the House of Representatives on Monday, in a fresh setback to the embattled premier seeking to tighten his grip on power after t
Washington, May 10 (IANS) Six people were killed when a suspect opened fire at a birthday party in the US state of Colorado, police said, adding the perpetrator killed himself at the scene.
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Washington, May 10 (IANS): The US has undercounted the number of deaths caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, currently the highest in the world, Anthony Fauci, top country's top infectious disease expert, said.
Melbourne, May 10 (PTI): An Australian court in Sydney on Monday dismissed the legal challenge filed by a 73-year old citizen stranded in Bengaluru against the federal government's controversial decision to
Kabul, May 10 (IANS): At least 15 people, mainly civilians, were killed in Afghanistan on Monday, the same day Taliban militants announced a nationwide three-day ceasefire for the upcoming Eid-al0Fitr holidays.
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS): With six months to go before the UK brings world leaders together for key UN climate talks, renowned natural historian and broadcaster David Attenborough has been named People's Ad
Moscow, May 10 (IANS): Months after Russian President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic, Alexei Navalny was poisoned, the Russian doctor who treated him has been reported as missing.
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New Delhi, May 10 (PTI): Chinese military scientists allegedly investigated weaponising coronaviruses five years before the COVID-19 pandemic and may have predicted a World War III fought with biological weapon
Jerusalem, May 9 (AP): Police on Sunday gave the go-ahead to the annual Jerusalem Day parade, a flag-waving display of Israeli claims to all of the contested city, despite days of unrest and soaring Israeli-Pal
Kolkata, May 9 (IANS): China has started reaping rewards for backing the February 1 military takeover in Myammar.
The military regime-controlled Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) this week approved 15 proj
WASHINGTON, MAY 9 (IANS): NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has added many firsts to its kitty. After becoming the first to test power flight on another world and to capture the colour image of the Martian s
Barcelona, May 9 (AP): Impromptu street celebrations erupted across Spain as the clock struck midnight on Saturday, when a six-month-long national state of emergency to contain the spread of coronavirus ended a
Dhaka (PTI) May 9 (PTI): Bangladesh on Sunday rejected a petition by jailed former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to go abroad on a medical visit, saying "there is no judicial provision that permits a jailed c
Kathmandu, May 9 (PTI): Nepal's embattled Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli will seek a vote of confidence in the House of Representatives on Monday to prove that he enjoys majority support in the lower house a