Islamabad, September 8 (IANS): The appointment of veteran Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund as Afghanistan's caretaker Prime Minister, with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar as his deputy, comes as a pl
Mexico City, September 8 (IANS): At least one person was killed after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit the southern Mexican coastal city of Acapulco in Guerrero state on Tuesday night, officials said.
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MEXICO CITY, September 8 (AP): Mexico's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion, unanimously annulling several provisions of a law from Coahuila — a state on the Tex
Sydney, September 8 (IANS): Bird species across the globe are suffering and dying from avian malaria and while these strains are not infectious to humans, they're spreading quickly through global transmissi
Taiyuan, September 8 (IANS): China sent a new Earth observation satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province at 11:01 a.m. Tuesday (Beijing Time).
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Jakarta, September 8 (IANS): At least 41 people were killed and about 80 others injured as fire broke out at a prison in Tangerang town near the Indonesian capital Jakarta early on Wednesday, officials said.
New Delhi, September 8 (IANS): The Taliban's religious leader, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, hours after the announcement of the new Afghanistan cabinet, issued a statement saying the new cabinet will start
New Delhi, September 8 (IANS): The Islamic State Khorasan Province (IS-KP) is also a Pakistani proxy that is thriving under Islamabad's patronage.
Most of ISKP's cadres include disgruntled elements f
New Delhi, September 8 (IANS): The National Security Advisors' level meeting between India and Russia on security issues, including the Afghanistan crisis began here on Wednesday.
The Indian National Sec
New York, September 8 (IANS): US researchers have identified an enzyme that may explain the reason why people with diabetes are at especially high risk of developing severe illness or dying from coronavirus inf
Washington, September 8 (IANS): The global coronavirus caseload has topped 221.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.58 million and vaccinations soared to over 5.52 billion, according to the Jo
Kabul, September 7 (AP): The Taliban on Tuesday announced a caretaker Cabinet that paid homage to the old guard of the group, giving top posts to Taliban personalities who dominated the 20-year battle against t
London, September 7 (PTI): Indian-origin author Mahmood Mamdani is among four authors from around the world to be shortlisted for the 2021 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding on Tuesday
Kabul, September 7 (IANS): After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, international aid, which evidently constitutes and caters to all basic facilitations of the country, has been suspended, leaving the cou
San Salvador, September 7 (IANS): El Salvador on Tuesday became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as an official currency.
The central American nation announced that it plans to buy "a lot
BANGKOK, September 7 (AP): The main underground group coordinating resistance to Myanmar’s military government issued a sweeping call for a nationwide uprising on Tuesday, raising the prospect of spiralin
Seoul, September 7 (AP): South Korea's military on Tuesday was closely watching North Korea amid signs the country was preparing to hold a new military parade to showcase its growing nuclear and missile cap
Beijing, September 7 (PTI): Chinese President Xi Jinping has appointed Gen Wang Haijiang as the new Commander of the People's Liberation Army's Western Theatre Command, which oversees the borders with I
KABUL, SEPTEMBER 7 (IANS): After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, international aid, which evidently constitutes and caters to all basic facilitations of the country, has been suspended, leaving the cou
Kabul, September 7 (IANS): The Afghanistan conflict, which has wrecked the country for decades, for many has been a conflict between the Taliban, the US and NATO forces and the Kabul government as part of the W