Toronto, February 23 (AP): Canada's House of Commons has voted to declare that China is committing genocide against more than 1 million Uighurs in the western Xinjiang region but Prime Minister Justin Trude
SEOUL, FEBRUARY 23 (IANS): The Seoul city government vowed on Tuesday to respond strictly to all illegal rallies held in downtown squares on March 1 Independence Movement Day.
Conservative groups have again
Kuala Lumpur, February 23 (AP): A Malaysian court Tuesday ordered a halt to the planned deportation of 1,200 Myanmar migrants to hear an appeal by two human rights groups, which say the migrants included refuge
Islamabad, February 23 (AP): After more than a month of delays, escalating violence and a flurry of diplomatic activity, peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government have resumed in the Middle East
Washington, February 23 (AP): The Biden administration's early efforts to resurrect the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are getting a chilly early response from Tehran. Though few expected a breakthrough in the firs
Washington, February 23 (AP): The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzman was arrested Monday in the United States and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plot his
Canberra, February 23 (AP): Facebook said on Tuesday it will lift its ban on Australians sharing news after it struck a deal with Australia's government on legislation that would make digital giants pay for
Hong Kong, February 23 (AP): Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam gave her clear support Tuesday to electoral reforms that would likely further exclude opposition voices and cement Beijing's control over th
Washington, February 23 (PTI): The United States on Monday crossed a grim "heartbreaking milestone" in its fight against COVID-19 as the death toll due to the disease crossed 500,000, a staggering fig
Baltimore (US), February 23 (AP): The COVID-19 death toll in the US has topped 500,000, all but matching the number of Americans killed in World War II, Korea and Vietnam combined.
The lives lost, as recorde
Yangon, February 23 (AP): Protesters gathered in Myanmar's biggest city on Monday despite the ruling junta's threat to use lethal force against people who join a general strike against the military'
Cape Canaveral, February 23 (AP): NASA on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the enormous orange and white parachute hurtling open and t
Washington, February 22 (AP): President Joe Biden's nomination of Neera Tanden to lead the White House Office of Management and Budget was thrown further into doubt on Monday as moderate Republican Sen. Sus
Johannesburg, February 22 (AP): South African police are investigating the death of exiled Rwandan opposition politician Seif Bamporiki who was killed in Cape Town.
Bamporiki, the Rwanda National Congre
Tokyo, February 22 (AP): Japan renewed its claim on a contested island in the Sea of Japan held by South Korea at an annual event Monday, escalating tensions between the neighbors whose relations were already s
Rome, February 22 (AP): The Italian ambassador to Congo and an Italian carabineri police officer were killed Monday while travelling in Congo in a UN convoy, the Foreign Ministry said.
In a brief statement,
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 22 (IANS): A boat carrying 90 Rohingya refugees and three Bangladesh crewmen drifted into India's territorial waters on Monday, with calls for immediate rescue mounting from UN agencies
Yangon, February 22 (AP): Protesters gathered in Myanmar's biggest city on Monday despite the ruling junta's threat to use lethal force against people who join a general strike against the military'
Suva, February 22 (IANS): Fiji and Japan signed an emergency loan agreement here on Monday, which will allow Fiji to get the 200 million Fijian dollars loan from Japan.
According to a statement from the Fiji
San Francisco, February 22 (AP): Federal aviation regulators are ordering United Airlines to step up inspections of all Boeing 777s equipped with the type of engine that suffered a catastrophic failure over Den