Washington, April 16 (IANS): US President Joe Biden has called for de-escalating the ongoing tensions with Moscow after his administration launched diplomatic and financial offensives against Russian officials
Seoul, April 16 (IANS): North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited a mausoleum of his late grandfather and the country's founder, Kim Il-sung, on the occasion of the latter's birth anniversary, state media
Washington, April 16 (IANS): At least eight people were killed during a shooting incident that took place at a FedEx facility in the US city of Indianapolis, police said on Friday, adding there were multiple ot
Jakarta, April 15 (IANS): Indonesian police on Thursday shot dead a man allegedly linked to last month's suicide bombing outside a church in South Sulawesi province, a spokesman said.
Members of the poli
Baghdad, April 15 (AP): A powerful explosion rocked a market in east Baghdad on Thursday, killing one person and injuring 12 others, according to Iraq's military.
A police official said the blast in
Washington, April 15 (AP): The Biden administration on Thursday announced the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats and sanctions against nearly three dozen people and companies as it moved to hold the Kremlin acco
KABUL, APRIL 15 (IANS): In a sympathetic admission of an earlier mistake, Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of Afghanistan's High Council of National Reconciliation, on Thursday congratulated a journalist on a qu
Geneva, April 15 (AP): A top official from the World Health Organisation says Europe has surpassed 1 million deaths from COVID-19 and the situation remains serious, with about 1.6 million new cases reported eac
Islamabad, April 15 (AP): The Biden administration's surprise announcement of an unconditional troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by September 11 appears to strip the Taliban and the Afghan government of con
Washington, April 15 (AP): Vaccine passports," or vaccine certificates, are documents that show you were vaccinated against COVID-19 or recently tested negative for the virus. They could help you get into
Washington, April 15 (PTI): Declaring that the war in Afghanistan was never meant to be a "multigenerational undertaking," President Joe Biden has announced that all US troops would be withdrawn from
Washington, April 15 (PTI): The erosion of democracy is a very real problem in many parts of the world, CIA Director William Burns has told US lawmakers, explaining that this trend could be reversed if the peop
Washington, April 15 (AP): The Biden administration is preparing to announce sanctions in response to a massive Russian hacking campaign that breached vital federal agencies, as well as for election interferenc
Hong Kong, April 15 (AP): Beijing's top official in Hong Kong on Thursday warned foreign forces not to interfere with the bottom line of national security in the city, threatening retaliation amid tensions
Washington, April 14 (AP): President Joe Biden says the September 11 attacks "cannot explain" why US forces should remain in Afghanistan 20 years later and that "it is time for American troops to
Washington, April 14 (AP): The Biden administration on Wednesday began to undo a Trump-era ban on clinics referring women for abortions, a policy directive that drove Planned Parenthood from the federal fa
Brussels, April 14 (AP): EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen announced plans Wednesday for a major contract extension for COVID-19 vaccines with Pfizer stretching to 2023.
In a sign of confidence in a c
Yangon, April 14 (AP): Myanmar's ruling junta has charged at least 19 medical doctors for participating in civil disobedience protests against the military's February 1 coup, a state-run newspaper repor
Islamabad/Lahore, April 14 (PTI): Pakistan on Wednesday decided to ban a radical Islamist party under the Terrorism Act after its supporters clashed with the law enforcement agencies for the third consecutive d
London, April 14 (PTI): Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has returned to royal duties, four days after her husband Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh's death last Friday.
The 94-year-old monarch hosted