Lagos (Nigeria), March 12 (AP): Gunmen have attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped at least 30 students just weeks after a similar attack in the region, authorities said Friday.
The latest a
Yangon, March 12 (AP): A court in Myanmar on Friday extended the pre-trial detention period for an Associated Press journalist arrested while covering demonstrations against the military's seizure of power
Cairo, March 11 (AP): A fire at a garment factory near Cairo on Thursday killed at least 20 people and injured 24, officials said, the latest such incident in Egypt where safety standards and fire regulations a
Minneapolis (US), March 11 (AP): A judge on Thursday granted prosecutors' request to add a third-degree murder charge against the former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's de
Amsterdam, March 11 (AP): The European Medicines Agency has authorised Johnson & Johnson's one-dose coronavirus vaccine, giving the European Union's 27 nations a fourth licensed vaccine to try to cu
Jerusalem, March 11 (AP): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said it called off the Israeli leader's visit to the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, citing disagreements with the Jordanian govern
GENEVA, MARCH 11 (IANS): One in three women, around 736 million, are subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence from a non-partner in their lifetime, says a World Health
Mandalay, March 11 (AP): Spurning an appeal by the United Nations to top using lethal force against peaceful demonstrators, security forces in Myanmar on Thursday fatally shot at least 10 people protesting agai
Tokyo, March 11 (AP): Japan on Thursday marked the 10th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that hit its northeastern region, where many survivors' lives are still on hold.
Carryi
YANGON, MARCH 11 (IANS): Myanmar's military rulers have accused the ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi of illegally accepting $600,000 (£430,000)and gold.
The allegation is the strongest yet level
Washington, March 11 (PTI): Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the US will speak out forcefully against China committing "genocide" against Uyghur Muslims in its Xinjiang province, as several
Washington, March 11 (AP): Will the coronavirus ever go away?
No one knows for sure. Scientists think the virus that causes COVID-19 may be with us for decades or longer, but that doesn't mean it will ke
Beijing, March 11 (PTI): China's Parliament on Thursday adopted the 14th Five-Year Plan, the mega blueprint containing billions of dollars worth of projects, including the controversial hydropower project o
Mandalay (Myanmar), March 11 (AP): Amnesty International accused Myanmar's military government on Thursday of increasingly using battlefield weapons against peaceful protesters and conducting systematic, de
Washington, March 11 (AP): A new agreement with South Korea on sharing the cost of keeping US troops on the Korean peninsula is early evidence that President Joe Biden is shifting America's approach to alli
Jakarta, March 11 (AP): A tourist bus plunged into a ravine on Indonesia's main island of Java after its brakes apparently malfunctioned, killing at least 27 people and injuring 39 others, police and rescue
Washington, March 10 (AP): Facebook has asked a court to dismiss state and federal antitrust lawsuits that accuse it of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller competitors.
The social
YANGON, MARCH 11 (IANS): Myanmar's Anti-Terrorism Central Committee on Thursday issued an order of withdrawing the terrorist designation of Arakan Army (AA) under the approval of the State Administration Co
Geneva, March 11 (AP): When the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic one year ago Thursday, it did so only after weeks of resisting the term and maintaining that the highly infectious v
Beijing, March 11 (AP): China's ceremonial legislature on Thursday endorsed the Communist Party's latest move to tighten control over Hong Kong by reducing the role of its public in picking the territor