Bangkok, December 15 (AP): The prolonged pandemic and surging prices are undermining food security for millions of people in Asia, with 1.8 billion lacking access to healthy diets, a report by the UN's Food
Tehran, December 15 (AP): Iran will allow the United Nations' nuclear watchdog to reinstall cameras damaged at a site where it has centrifuge parts and manufacturing material, semiofficial Iranian news agen
Moscow, December 15 (AP): Chinese President Xi Jinping supported Russian President Vladimir Putin in his push to get Western security guarantees precluding NATO's eastward expansion, the Kremlin said Wednes
New Delhi, December 15 (IANS): UN deputy rights chief Nada Al-Nashif said that there are credible allegations that over one hundred extrajudicial killings of former security forces in Afghanistan have been carr
Berlin, December 15 (AP): Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed Wednesday that his new government will win the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and make Germany structurally fit" for the 21st century, promisi
Seoul (South Korea), December 15 (AP): Kim Yong Ju, the younger brother of North Korea founder Kim Il Sung who was once regarded as the country's No. 2 official before his nephew was anointed as the next ru
Kabul, December 15 (AP): The Taliban didn't take the Afghan capital they were invited, says the man who issued the invitation.
In an Associated Press interview, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai offer
Jakarta (Indonesia), December 15 (AP): The young woman in Myanmar decided to speak out when she realised that money from the company she loved was now in the hands of the military leaders she hated.
She work
Moscow, December 15 (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping held a video call on Wednesday to discuss bilateral relations and international affairs, a summit that comes amid heighte
Manila, December 14 (AP): Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday withdrew his senatorial candidacy in next year's elections in his latest change of mind over what he plans to do after his turbulent
Seoul, December 14 (AP): Friday marks 10 years since Kim Jong Un, the third generation of his family to rule North Korea, took power after his father's sudden heart attack.
Initially considered inexperie
Madrid, December 14 (IANS): The eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Spanish island of La Palma has continued for 87 days, has hit a new record of being the longest than the previous one in 1585.
The
Manila, December 14 (IANS): Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's longtime aide-turned-senator Christopher Go on Tuesday announced his formal withdrawal from the 2022 presidential race.
Go went to the C
Berlin, December 14 (IANS): Germany has launched its Covid-19 inoculation campaign for children aged between five and 11 years with pre-existing conditions based on the recommendation of the country's Stand
Jakarta, December 14 (IANS): Starting from Tuesday, Indonesia will start vaccinating children aged six to 11 years old against Covid-19, targeting 26.5 million kids, according to the Ministry of Health.
The
Beijing, December 14 (IANS): Mainland China has reported its first case of the new Omicron Covid variant in the port city of Tianjin, media reports said on Tuesday.
The case is "imported from Europe&quo
Sydney/Seoul, December 14 (IANS): Visiting South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday met Australian opposition Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese and asked for the country's continued support for Seoul
Washington, December 14 (IANS): The US House panel investigating the January 6 Capitol riot has voted to recommend that former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows be referred to the Justice Department on co
Seoul, December 14 (IANS): The office of South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday hinted that the government may reintroduce toughened social distancing measures sooner or later to stem the recent Covid re
Sanaa, December 14 (IANS): A high-ranking official of Yemen's Ministry of Defence was killed by the Houthis in the ongoing battles between the militia and security forces in the country's oil-rich provi