KABUL, OCTOBER 6 (IANS): Since the time the Taliban have taken over the control of Afghanistan and formed an interim government; Pakistan has been advocating for the Taliban leadership, calling on the global co
Vatican City, October 6 (AP): Pope Francis expressed shame for himself and the Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday for the scale of child sexual abuse within the church in France and acknowledged failures in put
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 5 (IANS): Taiwan has warned of "catastrophic consequences for regional peace" if China takes over the island after days of incursions by Beijing's warplanes, Daily Mail reported
Stockholm, October 5 (AP): The Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to scientists from Japan, Germany and Italy.
Syukuro Manabe, 90, and Klaus Hasselmann, 89, were cited for their work in the physical mo
KABUL, OCTOBER 5 (IANS): The Taliban-led government of Afghanistan made an important claim of making the country narcotics-free with a complete ban on drug trade. However, with dried up foreign aids, widespread
RAMALLAH, OCTOBER 5 (IANS): Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told a visiting US official that he is ready to go for a peace process with Israel based on international resolutions.
The official Palestinian
KABUL, OCTOBER 5 (IANS): the situation in Afghanistan continues to move from bad to worse since the Taliban takeover and the formation of an interim government has prompted seizure of foreign aid and global rec
Paris, October 5 (AP): French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday he wants the Group of 20 major economic powers to set conditions for recognising the Taliban, including ensuring women's and girl's r
Paris, October 5 (AP): A major French report released Tuesday found that an estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France's Catholic Church over the past 70 years, in France's first
Bangkok, October 4 (AP): A US journalist who has spent more than four months in pretrial detention in military-ruled Myanmar has been charged with a second criminal offense, his lawyer said Monday, while author
Bangkok, October 4 (AP): Malaysia's main opposition leader called Monday for information found in the Pandora Papers data leak to be discussed in Parliament, after learning the country's former finance
Geneva, October 4 (AP): Investigators commissioned by the United Nations' top human rights body to examine possible abuses in Libya said Monday they have turned up evidence of possible war crimes and crimes
Washington, October 4 (AP): A new report sheds light on how world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires and others have used offshore accounts to shield assets collectively worth trillions of dollars over
Stockholm, October 4 (AP): Two U.S.-based scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their discovery of the receptors that allow humans to feel temperature and touch.
Dav
ADDIS ABABA, OCTOBER 4 (IANS): Ethiopia's incumbent Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was sworn in on Monday for a new five-year term in office.
The swearing-in ceremony was held as part of the first day of the
Kabul, October 4 (AP): Taliban forces raided an Islamic State affiliate's hideout in the Afghan capital and killed several insurgents, hours after a deadly bombing outside a mosque in Kabul, the Taliban sai
Kabul, October 4 (AP): Taliban forces raided an Islamic State affiliate's hideout in the Afghan capital and killed several insurgents, hours after a deadly bombing outside a mosque in Kabul, the Taliban sai
Seoul, October 4 (AP): North Korea restored dormant communication hotlines with South Korea in a small, fragile reconciliation step Monday in an apparent hard push to win outside concessions with a mix of
Vatican City, October 4 (AP): Pope Francis and dozens of religious leaders on Monday signed a joint appeal to governments to commit to ambitious targets at the upcoming UN climate conference, while promising to
Tokyo, October 4 (AP): Japan's parliament on Monday elected Fumio Kishida, a former moderate turned hawk, as prime minister. He'll face an economy battered by the pandemic, security threats from Ch