GENEVA, January 13 (AP): A top rights activist feels populist autocrats could be facing a turning point as people learn that stirring words don’t always translate into action, but he says democratic polit
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United Nations/Geneva, January 12 (PTI): Omicron is quickly overtaking the Delta variant of COVID-19 and becoming dominant around the world, a senior WHO official has warned, with the global health agency cauti
Islamabad, January 12 (PTI): Pakistan is willing to make peace with immediate neighbours, including India, under its first-ever National Security Policy which leaves doors open for trade with New Delhi even wit
New Delhi, January 12 (IANS): Acting Minister of Defence of Afghanistan Mullah Muhammad Yaqoob Mujahid has asked Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to bring back Afghanistan's planes and choppers lest they will reac
Geneva, January 12 (AP): The number of new coronavirus infections in the last week jumped by about 55%, although the number of deaths remained stable, the World Health Organization said in its latest pandemic r
Kabul, January 11 (AP): The Taliban have released a popular university professor and outspoken critic of successive Afghan governments who was arrested over the weekend, a family member said Tuesday. Hasina
Moscow, January 11 (AP): The Kremlin said Tuesday it saw no significant reason for optimism after the highly anticipated Russia-US talks over Ukraine and other security issues. The talks aimed at defusing te
Bangkok, January 11 (AP): American companies are still importing teak from Myanmar despite sanctions imposed after the military seized power last year, a report based on trade data said Tuesday. Teak is one
Baltimore, January 11 (AP): In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he’s doing well three days
New Delhi, January 11 (IANS): The Journalists Foundation of Afghanistan said that mediapersons in the country are going through the worst economic situation as 79 per cent of them have lost their jobs and resor
Seoul, January 11 (AP): North Korea on Tuesday fired what appeared to be a ballistic missile into its eastern sea, its second launch in a week, following leader Kim Jong Un's calls to expand its nuclear wea
Brussels, January 11 (AP): David Sassoli, the Italian journalist who worked his way up in politics while defending the downtrodden and repressed to become president of the European Union's parliament, died
Beijing, January 10 (PTI): Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who held talks with Sri Lanka's top leadership on Sunday, has said that no "third country" should "interfere" in the close ti
Seoul, January 10 (IANS): South Korean President Moon Jae-in will embark on three-country Middle East trip later this week as Seoul seeks to boost ties with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and Egyp
Kathmandu, January 10 (IANS): A government body in Nepal has recommended restrictive measures against large gatherings and closing of schools as the latest measures against the latest Covid-19 resurgence. Th
Mexico City, January 10 (IANS): Mexico has reported its first three cases of flurona, a double infection of Covid-19 and influenza, in the states of Nayarit and Jalisco, local health authorities. In Nayarit,
Rome, January 10 (AP): Pope Francis suggested Monday that getting vaccinated against the coronavirus was a moral obligation" and denounced how people had been swayed by baseless information to refuse
Kampala (Uganda), January 10 (AP): Uganda's schools reopened to students on Monday, ending the world's longest school disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The reopening caused traffic congestion
Kabul, January 10 (IANS): A number of female Afghan journalists have confirmed that restrictions imposed against them by the Taliban have increased, saying they were worried about their future in the war-torn n
New York, January 10 (PTI): In one of the worst fire accidents in the recent history of New York City, 19 people, including nine children, were killed in an apartment building where a massive blaze broke out du
