Tehran, February 7 (AP): The United Nations special envoy for Yemen arrived on his first visit to Iran Sunday for talks on the grinding war in the Arab world's poorest country, Iranian state TV reported.
Dhaka, February 7 (PTI): Bangladesh on Sunday launched its nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive with lawmakers along with top administration and health officials taking the first shots of the vaccine.
Healt
HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 7 (IANS): In the wake of the of challenges brought by global climate change, Hong Kong's finance chief Paul Chan said on Sunday that the city strives to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050
Quito, February 7 (AP): Ecuador will choose a new president Sunday facing unprecedented health measures due to the coronavirus pandemic and the influence of a populist former head of state who was blocked from
Yangon, February 7 (AP): As enthusiastic crowds of tens of thousands marched through the streets of Myanmar's biggest city on Sunday to protest last week's coup, their spirits were lifted by the return
SAN FRANCISCO, FEBRUARY 7 (IANS): The gap between the "haves" and "have nots" has been widened by the Covid-19 pandemic while women, younger individuals, those with lower levels of formal ed
KABUL, FEBRUARY 7 (IANS): Afghan National Security Advisor (NSA) Hamdullah Mohib claimed that the Taliban has no intention towards being committed to the country's peace process, adding that the militant gr
SEOUL, FEBRUARY 7 (IANS): North Korea is scheduled to hold a plenary meeting of its ruling Workers' Party this week to finalise plans for "strategic tasks" for this year, a state media report said
Tehran, February 7 (AP): Iran's supreme leader says the US must lift all sanctions if it wants Iran to return to its commitments to the nuclear deal with Western powers, state TV reported Sunday.
The tel
Yangon, February 7 (AP): Thousands of people rallied against the military takeover in Myanmar's biggest city on Sunday and demanded the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, whose elected government was toppled by t
Kabul, February 6 (IANS): A police officer was killed and six civilians were injured in two separate bombings in Kabul on Saturday, the latest in a string of explosions to hit the Afghan capital in recent month
Bloomingdale, February 6 (AP): A shooting early Saturday at a hotel in suburban Chicago left one person dead and several others injured, police said.
Officers who responded about 2:35 a.m. to a report of sho
LONDON, FEBRUARY 6 (IANS): Researchers at University of Cambridge have revealed a mechanism by which climate change could have played a direct role in the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the Covi
BEIJING, FEBRUARY 6 (IANS): China's space probe Tianwen-1 has sent back the first image of Mars that it captured from a distance of 2.2 million km from the Red Planet.
The China National Space Administra
Beijing, February 6 (PTI): In its first contact with the Biden administration, China on Saturday asked the US to rectify the "mistakes" of former President Donald Trump's aggressive policies towar
Kabul, February 6 (AP): Two separate explosions rocked the Afghan capital of Kabul on Saturday, killing at least three people including members of the minority Sikh community and wounding four others, Afghan of
Washington/Beijing, February 6 (PTI): The US will hold China accountable for its abuses of the international system, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said as he spoke to his Chinese counterpart Yan
UNITED NATIONS, FEBRUARY 6 (IANS): Two million additional cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) may occur over the next decade as Covid-19 "shutters schools and disrupts programmes that help protect gir
NAY PYI TAW, FEBRUARY 6 (IANS): In the wake of the military coup, Myanmar has blocked access to micro-blogging platform Twitter and photo-sharing app Instagram on Saturday, just two days after the country direc
United Nations, February 6 (AP): The United Nations kicked off the selection of its next secretary-general on Friday, asking the 193 UN member states to submit candidates to be the world organisation's chie