London, December 11 (PTI): Humans, followed by ferrets, and to a lesser extent cats, civets and dogs are the animals most likely to be infected with the novel coronavirus, according to a new study which analyse
UNITED NATIONS, DECEMBER 11 (IANS): People in Ethiopia's conflict-rideen Tigray state reportedly are running out of food because of a lack of access for the UN and its partners, it was announced.
In a st
Brussels, December 11 (AP): European Union leaders reached a hard-fought deal Friday to cut the bloc's net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 per cent by the end of the decade compared with 1990 levels
Terre Haute (US), December 11 (AP): The Trump administration Thursday carried out its ninth federal execution of the year in what has been a first series of executions during a presidential lame-duck period in
KABUL, DECEMBER 11 (IANS): The UN General Assemblys (UNGA) resolution on the situation in Afghanistan was adopted on Friday by a majority of 131 votes, supporting an inclusive Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace
Hong Kong, December 11 (AP): Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been charged under the city's national security law, amid a widening crackdown on dissent, according to local med
December 11 (PTI): United States President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been named by the prestigious TIME magazine as '2020 Person of the Year' for changing the American
San Francisco, December 11 (IANS) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told his more than 50,000 employees that they will not be required to get vaccinated before returning back to work when the company reopens off
Washington, December 11 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 69.4 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.58 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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Beirut, December 10 (AP): The Lebanese prosecutor probing last summer's port explosion in Beirut has filed charges against the caretaker prime minister and three former ministers, Lebanon's official new
SAN FRANCISCO, DECEMBER 10 (IANS): YouTube has said that it will now start removing any piece of content that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 US Presi
DHAKA, DECEMBER 10 (IANS): A war-time bomb weighing around 250 kg was found buried at a construction site of Bangladesh's main Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in capital Dhaka, the country's Inte
CANBERRA, DECEMBER 10 (IANS): An Australian parliamentary inquiry on Thursday called for mining giant Rio Tinto to compensate indigenous members after it destroyed sacred caves.
Rio Tinto earlier this year b
KABUL, DECEMBER 10 (IANS): A female journalist was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on Thursday, an official confirmed.
The incident took place in the provincial capit
ISLAMABAD, DECEMBER 10 (IANS): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates have agreed to continue working together on the shared objectives of combating the Covid-19 pandemic and era
SEOUL, DECEMBER 10 (IANS): North Korea's trade with China hit an all-time low in October due to Pyongyang's border closure with its ally in an effor to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, a report
BRUSSELS, DECEMBER 10 (IANS): The European Commission has unveiled an agenda to ramp up anti-terrorism efforts across the European Union (EU) and also heighten the bloc's fight against violent extremism.
DHAKA, DECEMBER 10 (IANS): Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for "positive and robust" international climate coalitions to "effectively move towards carbon neutrality" withi
Cape Canaveral (US), December 10 (AP): NASA has named the 18 astronauts half of them women who will train for its Artemis moon-landing programme.
The first woman and next man on the moon will come from this
Washington, December 10 (PTI): The US government and 48 states have filed parallel antitrust lawsuits against Facebook, accusing the social media giant of anti-competitive conduct by abusing its market power to