Bangkok, October 11 (AP): Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and former President Win Myint pleaded not guilty Monday to violating COVID-19 restrictions, their lawyers said, as the pair were formally indict
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Stockholm, October 11 (AP): Three U.S-based economists won the 2021 Nobel prize for economics on Monday for work on drawing conclusions from unintended experiments, or so-called natural experiments. David Ca
New Delhi, October 11 (IANS): "I saw the Afghan President escape with millions," claims Brigadier General Piraz Ata Sharifi, the bodyguard of former Afghan leader Ashraf Ghani, adding that the latter
Baghdad, October 11 (AP): Iraq saw a record low election turnout since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, the independent body that oversees the election said Monday. The preliminary re
Baghdad, October 11 (AP): Iraq said on Monday it has detained a top leader of the Islamic State group and a longtime al-Qaida operative in a cross-border operation. Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi tw
Jerusalem, October 11 (AP): German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday implored Israel not to "lose sight of the need to establish a Palestinian state, as she wrapped up a two-day farewell visit. Merkel&
Seoul, October 11 (AP): North Korea said Monday leader Kim Jong Un urged officials to overcome a "grim situation" facing the country and make stronger efforts to improve the food and living conditions
Islamabad, October 10 (PTI): Abdul Qadeer Khan, the disgraced atomic scientist known as the 'father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb' under the clandestine enrichment programme and infamous for his contro-
Kathmandu, October 10 (PTI): Nepal's Industry, Commerce and Supplies Minister Gajendra Bahadur Hamal resigned on Sunday following a controversy over his appointment, just 48 hours after his formal induction
Baghdad, October 10 (AP): Iraq closed its airspace and land border crossings on Sunday as voters headed to the polls to elect a parliament that many hope will deliver much needed reforms after decades of confli
Taipei, October 10 (AP): Taiwan's president on Sunday vowed to defend the island from China's rising pressure for reunification, after a week of unprecedented tensions with Beijing. Speaking at the i
Beirut, October 9 (AP): President Bashar Assad allowed his exiled uncle back into Syria to avoid serving a four-year prison term in France, where he had spent more than 30 years, a Syrian pro-government newspap
Islamabad, October 9 (AP): The Taliban on Saturday ruled out cooperation with the US to contain extremist groups in Afghanistan, staking out an uncompromising position on a key issue ahead of the first direct t
Quito, October 9 (IANS): Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso has called for greater international cooperation to protect the Amazon through the sustainable use of biodiversity in the world's largest tropic
Seoul, October 9 (IANS): North Korea appears to be still operating its uranium enrichment plant at the Yongbyon nuclear complex, a US website monitoring Pyongyang's activities said on Saturday. "Ima
Islamabad, October 9 (AP): Senior Taliban officials and U.S. representatives are to hold talks Saturday and Sunday about containing extremist groups in Afghanistan and easing the evacuation of foreign citizens
Beijing, October 9 (PTI): Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday made a strong pitch for the reunification of Taiwan with the mainland amidst heightened tensions with the estranged island, saying the Taiwan q
Tehran, October 9 (AP): Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran's first president after the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the
Tel Aviv, October 8 (IANS): More than 2,500 Israeli medical residents and interns have resigned amid a dispute with the country Health Ministry over the length 26-hour shifts, the Medical Residents Organization
Kabul, October 8 (IANS): A suicide bomber has targeted a mosque in Afghanistan's Kunduz city during Friday prayers, killing at least 50 people, officials said. Images on social media showed bodies a
