Kabul, November 30 (AP): Taliban fighters have summarily killed or forcibly disappeared more than 100 former police and intelligence officers since taking power in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said in a repo
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Bangkok, November 30 (AP): A court in Myanmar postponed its verdict on Tuesday in the trial of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to allow testimony from an additional witness. The court agreed with a defence mo
San Juan, November 30 (AP): Barbados stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and became a republic for the first time in history. Several
Tehran, November 30 (AP): Iran struck a maximalist tone Tuesday after just one day of restarted talks in Vienna over its tattered nuclear deal, suggesting everything discussed in previous rounds of diplomacy co
London, November 30 (AP): The emergence of the new omicron variant and the world's desperate and likely futile attempts to keep it at bay are reminders of what scientists have warned for months: The coronav
Geneva, November 29 (AP): The World Health Organization says it could still take some time to get a full picture of the threat posed by omicron, a new variant of the coronavirus as scientists worldwide scramble
Brussels, November 29 (AP): Nations around the world sought Monday to keep the new omicron variant at bay with travel bans and further restrictions, even as it remains unclear what it means for the COVID-19 pan
Jerusalem, November 29 (IANS): Israeli archaeologists have unearthed the relics of a Hellenistic (Greek culture) farm in the heart of the coastal city of Tel Aviv, dated to about 2,150 years ago, the Israel Ant
Canberra, November 29 (IANS): Indigenous groups from around Australia will shape the country's cultural heritage protection systems under a new agreement. The government on Monday announced a partnership
Vienna, November 29 (AP): Negotiators gathered in Vienna on Monday to resume talks over reviving Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, with hopes of quick progress muted after the arrival of a hard-li
Tokyo, November 29 (AP): As cases of a new coronavirus variant are confirmed around the world, Japan announced Monday that it will suspend entry of all foreign visitors, joining an increasing number o
United Nations (New York), November 28 (IANS): UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has welcomed the trilateral meeting between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia over the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh confli
Prague, November 28 (AP): The Czech president on Sunday swore in Petr Fiala as the country's new prime minister following last month's parliamentary election. Milos Zeman, in a wheelchair, was separa
Beijing, November 28 (PTI): China is expected to continue its much-criticised Zero COVID policy, shutting the country to most of the world as a new study has warned of a "colossal outbreak" with over
Kabul, November 28 (IANS): The acting Prime Minister (PM) of Afghanistan's caretaker government Mullah Hassan Akhund has said that Afghanistan wants to have good relations with the international community,
Johannesburg, November 28 (PTI): South Africa's top health federation on Sunday slammed the 18 nations which have imposed travel bans on the country on fears of the new potentially highly-transmissible vari
Hong Kong, November 28 (AP): Australian officials were racing Sunday to conduct further tests on passengers arriving from southern Africa who tested positive for COVID-19 to determine if they were carrying the
Washington, November 27 (PTI) America's top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has said that the new COVID-19 Omicron variant is in "fluid motion" in South Africa and the US scientists are
The Hague, November 27 (AP) With each passing hour, new restrictions were being slapped on travel from countries in southern Africa as the world scurried Saturday to contain a new variant of the coronavirus tha
Tokyo, November 27 (AP) Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, at his first troop review Saturday, renewed his pledge to consider all options, including acquiring enemy base strike capability, and vowed to crea
