Seoul, April 27 (IANS): South Korea lodged a strong protest on Tuesday against Japan's renewed territorial claims to the Dokdo islets, called Takeshima by Japan lying halfway between the two countries.
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Washington, April 27 (IANS) The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 147.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.11 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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Bangkok, April 26 (PTI): Thailand Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha was fined 6,000 baht (Rs 14,270) on Monday for not wearing a mask, as his government struggled to combat a new wave of coronavirus cases i
Moscow, April 26 (AP): Russian authorities on Monday ordered the offices of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny to suspend their activities pending a court ruling on whether they should be outlawed as a
Istanbul, April 26 (AP): A small group of Turkish protestors gathered outside the American consulate in Istanbul Monday to protest US President Joe Biden's decision to call the Ottoman Empire's mass dep
Dubai, April 26 (AP): The United Arab Emirates on Monday warned that any moves to change the historic identity of Jerusalem threaten peace, and called on Israel to put an end to violence following the latest cl
Brussels, April 26 (AP): The European Commission on Monday said it has launched a legal action against vaccine maker AstraZeneca for failing to respect the terms of its contract with the EU.
Spokesman Stefan
China's state-run Sichuan Airlines has suspended all its cargo flights to India for 15 days, causing major disruption to private traders' efforts to procure the much-needed oxygen concentrators
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Washington, April 26 (IANS): An increasing number of Americans have missed their second dose of Covid-19 vaccine, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nearly 8 per cent o
San Francisco, April 26 (IANS): Popular online discussion platform Reddit has been sued by a woman for allegedly allowing her ex-boyfriend to repeatedly post obscene images of her when she was 16-year-old.
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Islamabad, April 26 (IANS): With the Covid-19 situation in India continuing to wreak havoc the neighbouring country, the people of Pakistan -- politicians, journalists, and citizens -- are all prayers, sending
Tokyo, April 26 (IANS): Candidates backed by the Opposition parties won all three parliamentary elections, the results showed on Monday, dealing with a severe blow to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.
The outco
New York, April 26 (IANS): In a break from the America First policy, President Joe Biden's administration is "working round the clock" to immediately send India raw material needed for making Covi
Jakarta, April 26 (IANS): The wreckage of the missing Indonesian submarine was located on the sea floor off Bali Island with all 53 crew members aboard dead, top military officers said.
The Nanggala-402 subm
KOLKATA, APRIL 25 (IANS): Some internal memos of the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Army) indicate that the troops are under orders to ruthlessly stamp out protests and kill anyone opposing the law enforcers by force.
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Dhaka, April 25 (PTI): Bangladesh on Sunday closed its border with India for two weeks in view of the sharp increase in the coronavirus cases in the neighbouring country.
"We are closing it (border) for
YEREVAN, APRIL 25 (IANS): Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Sunday announced his resignation to pave the way for scheduled snap parliamentary elections in June.
"In order to implement the decis
NEW YORK, APRIL 25 (IANS): Up to 20 per cent of all the groundwater wells in the world are at risk of going dry in the near future, warn environmental scientists.
Researchers from the University of Californi
BEIJING, APRIL 25 (IANS): China has named its first Mars rover 'Zhurong' after the traditional fire God, the media reported China National Space Administration (CNSA) as saying on Saturday China's S
Banyuwangi (Indonesia), April 25 (AP): Indonesia's military on Sunday officially said all 53 crew members from a submarine that sank and broke apart last week are dead, and that search teams had located the