GENEVA, FEBRUARY 16 (IANS): The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the international expert team on the Covid-19 origin-tracing mission in Wuhan was "independent" and had no affiliation.
KABUL, FEBRUARY 16 (IANS): The Afghan National Army commandos have freed 42 people from a Taliban detention centre in Baghlan province, the country's Defence Ministry said on Tuesday.
"During a spec
Herat (Afghanistan), February 16 (AP): Investigators began sifting through the ruins of a massive fire that destroyed hundreds of fuel tankers parked at a major crossing at the Afghanistan-Iran border, the gove
Dhaka, February 16 (PTI): A special anti-terrorism tribunal on Tuesday sentenced five members of a banned Islamist militant group, including a fugitive army major, to death and a sixth man to life in prison for
Seoul, February 16 (AP): North Korean hackers attempted to steal information about coronavirus vaccines and treatments, South Korea's intelligence service said on Tuesday, but it denied a lawmaker'
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 16 (IANS): The United Nations said on Tuesday that lack of proper infrastructure planning is hurting Covid-19 recovery, climate action and sustainable development goals (SDGs).
In a new pu
Canberra, February 16 (AP): Australia's government said on Tuesday it will amend draft laws that would make Google and Facebook pay for news to clarify that publishers would be paid in lump sums rather than
Yangon, February 16 (AP): Police in Myanmar filed a new charge against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her lawyer said Tuesday, which may allow her to be held indefinitely without trial.
Lawyer Khin Maung Za
KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 16 (IANS): Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said he was not given a chance to fulfil the promises he had made to the people.
He said this while presenting the government's achie
London, February 16 (PTI): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged people, in a strict lockdown to contain the spread of a new Kent variant of coronavirus for months, to temper optimism around restrictions be
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 16 (IANS): The likelihood of either thing happening remains zero even though the protest venue has seen some high-profile visitors in the recent days, including many Pashtun activists like A
Ottawa, February 16 (AP): Canada, the US and a coalition of 56 other countries on Monday endorsed a declaration denouncing state-sponsored arbitrary detention of foreign nationals for political purposes.
The
Hong Kong, February 16 (AP): Two former Hong Kong lawmakers pleaded guilty to illegal assembly charges Tuesday, as a trial opened for them and seven other prominent democracy activists in what is seen as a
Yangon, February 16 (AP): Peaceful demonstrations against Myanmar's military takeover resumed Tuesday, following violence against protesters a day earlier by security forces and after internet access was bl
Toronto, February 16 (AP): The World Health Organisation has granted an emergency authorization to AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine, a move that should allow the UN agency's partners to ship millions o
Barcelona (Spain), February 15 (AP): The future government of Spain's restive Catalonia region is in the hands of a man who is spending his nights in a prison cell for committing acts of sedition again
KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 15 (IANS): Nepal's main administrative complex Singha Durbar, which was heavily ravaged in the 2015 devastating earthquakes, came into operation again on Monday after the completion of m
London, February 15 (PTI): The UK's tougher new travel rules to contain the spread of COVID-19 variants came into effect from Monday, involving compulsory hotel quarantines for anyone returning to England f
Colombo, February 15 (PTI): Sri Lanka's Election Commission Chairman Nimal Punchihewa on Monday shot down reports of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) planning to set up a political unit in th
WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 15 (IANS): After a nearly seven-month journey to Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover, its first mission to collect Martian broken rock and dust, is slated to land at a tricky terrain of the