Washington, February 16 (AP): A Democratic congressman accused Donald Trump in a federal lawsuit on Tuesday of inciting the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol and of conspiring with his lawyer and extremist
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 16 (IANS): The Myanmar diaspora has gone global in their protests against the military coup in their homeland by staging demonstrations in countries like Japan, Taiwan, India and Thailand.
GENEVA, FEBRUARY 16 (IANS): Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreed by consensus to appoint Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former finance minister of Nigeria, as the next director-general, said the WTO in
BEIJING, FEBRUARY 16 (IANS): The leader of a multi-million dollar scam that passed off saline solution and mineral water as Covid-19 vaccines has been arrested in China.
The man, identified as Kong, had rese
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