BRASILIA, MARCH 3 (IANS): The coronavirus variant detected in the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas is twice as contagious and capable of re-infecting those who already had Covid-19, according to a study The
GUANGZHOU, March 3 (IANS): Top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci and leading Chinese respiratory disease expert Zhong Nanshan have called for global solidarity and cooperation to fight against Covid-19
The Hague, March 3 (AP): The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Wednesday she has launched an investigation into alleged crimes in the Palestinian territories, plunging the court into the midst
Baghdad, March 3 (AP): At least 10 rockets targeted a military base in western Iraq that hosts US-led coalition troops on Wednesday, the coalition and the Iraqi military said. It was not immediately known if th
Washington, March 3 (PTI): Asserting that America is looking at the world with "fresh eyes", US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in his first major foreign policy speech on Wednesday plans to spell o
Yangon, March 3 (AP): Myanmar security forces shot and killed at least eight people Wednesday, according to accounts on social media and local news reports, as authorities extended their lethal crackdown o
Washington, March 3 (AP): FBI Director Christopher Wray bluntly labelled the January riot at the US Capitol as domestic terrorism Tuesday and warned of a rapidly growing threat of homegrown violent extremism th
Yangon, March 3 (AP): Police used tear gas and rubber bullets again on Wednesday to violently disperse protesters against last month's military takeover. Multiple reports from several cities and towns, diff
Washington, March 3 (PTI): In the first major setback to US President Joe Biden, Indian-American policy expert Neera Tanden has withdrawn her nomination as his top White House budget official after she faced st
Kabul, March 3 (AP): The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the killing of three women working for a local radio and TV station in eastern Afghanistan, the latest in a spike in targeted killings
Washington, March 3 (IANS) The total number of global Covid-19 cases has topped 114.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.54 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
In its latest
London, March 3 (IANS) Coronavirus-related deaths in England and Wales are falling fastest among those aged 80 and over thanks to the vaccine rollout in the UK, statistics from the Office for National Statistic
Phnom Penh (Cambodia), March 2 (AP): Cambodia on Tuesday received its first batch of 324,000 coronavirus vaccine doses from India that are part of the World Health Organization's COVAX initiative, as the co
UNITED NATIONS, MARCH 2 (IANS): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asked for generous donations for humanitarian operations in war-torn Yemen.
Some $3.85 billion is needed for 2021 to support 16 million Y
Brussels, March 2 (AP): The European Union on Tuesday imposed sanctions on four senior Russian officials over the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is President Vladimir Putin's most high-pro
HELSINKI, MARCH 2 (IANS): The Finnish government has declared a state of emergency due to the worsening situation of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country.
The state of emergency took effect immediately after
Colombo, March 2 (PTI): Sri Lanka on Tuesday hoped that India would stand by it when the UNHRC moves its latest accountability and reconciliation resolution on the island nation this month, days after a UN repo
Washington, March 2 (AP): As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden promised to make a pariah out of Saudi Arabia over the 2018 killing of dissident Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi. But when it came time to actually
KOLKATA, MARCH 2 (IANS): A journalist working for the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) was arrested by the military after being roughed up over his reports of the crackdown last weekend in Myanmar, in which 19 p
ROME, MARCH 2 (ANS): For the first time in its more than 2,000-year history, the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome will be fully open to the public starting from Tuesday.
But Roman history buffs may have to wait