Rome, October 7 (IANS) Italy appears to be heading for a new Covid-19 wave, with a spike in new cases and hospitalisations reported in the last week, according to the Health Ministry.
On Thursday, the countr
Oslo, October 7 (IANS) The Nobel Peace Prize 2022 have been jointly awarded to Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian civil rights campaigners for "their consistent efforts in favour of humanist values, anti-mi
New Delhi, October 6 (IANS): Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that buying Twitter is to fulfil his dream to build a super app called X.com like China's WeChat that will be available to all globally.
Replying
Washington, October 6 (IANS) Former US President Donald Trump, who was 'permanently suspended' by Twitter in January last year, may return to the micro-blogging platform if Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Mus
Hong Kong, October 6 (IANS) China has banned residents from leaving Xinjiang over a Covid-19 outbreak - just weeks after the far-western region began relaxing restrictions from a stringent extended lockdown, fu
Lahore, October 6 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that the country should not be forced to go out with a "begging bowl" to rich polluting nations after the floods that have deva
Washington, October 6 (IANS) The US intelligence community believes the car bombing that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of prominent Russian political figure Alexander Dugin, was authorised by elements withi
Bangkok, October 6 (IANS) At least 34 people, including children and adults were killed and 12 others wounded in an attack on a day-care centre in Nong Bua Lamphu district in Thailand on Thursday.
The gunman
Stockholm, October 6 (IANS) French author Annie Ernauz has won the the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2022 "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collectiv
Geneva, October 5 (IANS): The World Health Organization on Wednesday issued an alert for four "contaminated" India-made medicines, chiefly for paediatric use, identified in the west African nation of
Moscow, October 5 (IANS): Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law four unification treaties with the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, on Wednes
Bogota, October 5 (IANS): Colombian President Gustavo Petro has welcomed the restart of ongoing formal peace negotiations between his government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group in Venezue
Stockholm, October 5 (IANS): Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless from the United States and Morten Meldal from Denmark shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of click chemistr
Geneva, October 5 (IANS): Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel will receive the 2022 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced.
The selection commi
Kiev, October 5 (IANS): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree to put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC), which rules out holding any negotiations with
London, October 5 (IANS): Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed earlier this year shortly before giving a lecture in the US, is among the favourites to win this year's Nobel prize for literature, according to boo
United Nations, October 5 (IANS): In the latest attacks on UN peacekeepers, three Bangladeshis have died from a bomb attack in the Central African Republic (CAR), barely a week after a Pakistani was killed
Seoul, October 5 (IANS) South Korea and the United States fired four ground-to-ground missiles into the East Sea on Wednesday in joint drills, a day after North Korea's intermediate-range ballistic missile
Washington, October 3 (IANS) At least 80 people were killed in the U.S. states of Florida and North Carolina by Hurricane Ian which made landfall in southwestern Florida as Category 4 last week.
At least 76
One of the biggest data breaches in Australian history compromise up to 10 million customers
Canberra, October 2 (IANS): The Australian government has accused the country's giant telecommunications provi