Seoul, January 10 (IANS): South Korean President Moon Jae-in will embark on three-country Middle East trip later this week as Seoul seeks to boost ties with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and Egyp
Kathmandu, January 10 (IANS): A government body in Nepal has recommended restrictive measures against large gatherings and closing of schools as the latest measures against the latest Covid-19 resurgence.
Th
Mexico City, January 10 (IANS): Mexico has reported its first three cases of flurona, a double infection of Covid-19 and influenza, in the states of Nayarit and Jalisco, local health authorities.
In Nayarit,
Rome, January 10 (AP): Pope Francis suggested Monday that getting vaccinated against the coronavirus was a moral obligation" and denounced how people had been swayed by baseless information to refuse
Kampala (Uganda), January 10 (AP): Uganda's schools reopened to students on Monday, ending the world's longest school disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The reopening caused traffic congestion
Kabul, January 10 (IANS): A number of female Afghan journalists have confirmed that restrictions imposed against them by the Taliban have increased, saying they were worried about their future in the war-torn n
New York, January 10 (PTI): In one of the worst fire accidents in the recent history of New York City, 19 people, including nine children, were killed in an apartment building where a massive blaze broke out du
Bangkok, January 10 (AP): A court in Myanmar sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison on Monday after finding her guilty of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies and vio
Murree (Pakistan), January 9 (IANS): Murree, the most loved tourist spot in Pakistan, located at an altitude of at 2,291 meters, became the worst nightmare for thousands of tourists, who went to the touri
BEIJING, January 9 (AP): The numbers are small, but the major port of Tianjin may be facing China’s first outbreak of omicron of any size, less than four weeks before the Winter Olympics open in nearby Be
Yangon, January 9 (IANS): Myanmar's military has planned to further extend its ceasefire with ethnic armed groups until the end of 2022, according to a joint statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affa
New Delhi, January 9 (IANS): Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have arrested an outspoken critic of the government, drawing strong calls for his immediate release from civil society activists, VOA reported.
Washington, January 9 (AP): In what's become a familiar scene President Joe Biden lingered after delivering a recent speech on the pandemic as reporters fired a barrage of questions.
He bristled at a que
Moscow, January 9 (AP): Kazakhstan's health ministry said Sunday that 164 people have been killed in protests that have rocked the country over the past week.
The figures reported on the state news chann
Old Fangak (South Sudan), January 9 (AP): Nyayiar Kuol cradled her severely malnourished 1-year-old daughter as they traveled for 16 hours on a crowded barge to the nearest hospital to their home in rural South
Beijing, January 9 (PTI): China's Chang'e 5 lunar lander has found the first-ever on-site evidence of water on the surface of the moon, lending new evidence to the dryness of the satellite.
The study
Kabul, January 9 (IANS): Ninety per cent of Afghanistan's healthcare centres are on the verge of collapse, which in turn is "depriving millions of basic care, threatening the Covid-19 response and crea
New Delhi, January 8 (IANS): At least 21 people died of cold after they were stranded in their cars during the snowstorm in Murree in Pakistan on Friday night, according to Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Ras
Quito, January 8 (IANS): Wolf Volcano, the tallest in Ecuador's Galapagos archipelago, has erupted, the country's Geophysical Institute reported.
According to a statement from the institute, the erup
New Delhi, January 8 (IANS): Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on Saturday that around 16 to 19 people had died after their cars were stranded because of snowfall and traffic congestion in Mur