NEW DELHI SEPTEMBER 10 (IANS): China has been pursuing a duplicitous policy towards Myanmar which hinges on border security, relations between Beijing and Naypyitaw and Chinas ambitious BRI projects in Myanmar.
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 10 (IANS): The Oregon State University will lead a National Science Foundation-funded effort to discover Antarctica's oldest ice and learn more about how the earth's climate has cha
Hong Kong, September 10 (AP): Hong Kong police charged the group that organises the city's annual Tiananmen candlelight vigil and three of its leaders with subversion under the national security law, amid a
United Nations, September 10 (IANS): The UN Security Council (UNSC) has unanimously adopted a resolution on its peacekeeping transitions.
Resolution 2594, adopted on Thursday, stresses the crucial role
New Delhi, September 10 (IANS): A number of former Afghan government officials have accused exiled President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country following the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, of lying.
The forme
Mexico City, September 10 (IANS): Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has written a letter to his US counterpart Joe Biden raising the need for a new strategy to deal with undocumented migrants, accor
Ramallah, September 10 (IANS): Leaders of Palestinian factions, including the Islamic Hamas Movement, have called for a day of rage on Friday to support Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
Wasel Abu Yousef, a
Washington/Beijing, September 10 (IANS): US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Friday held a "broad, strategic discussion" during which the two leaders spoke of issues regar
New Delhi, September 10 (IANS): Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has warned of a sharp increase in violence against journalists and mediapersons in Afghanistan under the Taliban rule.
It said that in the past
Washington, September 10 (IANS): The US Department of Justice has sued Texas over its new abortion law which would effectively ban most abortions, saying the state's statute is "unconstitutional".
Jakarta, September 10 (IANS): The number of inmates killed in the fire at a prison in Tangerang, a town near the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, has increased to 44, the Law and Human Rights Ministry reported.
New York, September 10 (IANS): Declaring that "our patience is wearing thin" with the resistance to vaccination against Covid-19, US President Joe Biden has ordered companies with at least 100 workers
New Delhi, September 9 (PTI): The territory of Afghanistan must not be used to carry out terror attacks against other countries, the five-nation influential grouping BRICS said on Thursday and strongly called f
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 9 (IANS): Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have been detaining and assaulting journalists and imposing new restrictions on media work, the Human Rights Watch said.
Demand is growing fo
KABUL, SEPTEMBER 9 (IANS): The prolonged war and civil strife have shattered bodies and souls of the Afghans and the country deserves humanitarian supports, peace and prosperity, President of the International
Seoul, September 9 (AP): Soldiers, civil defense forces and troops wearing gas masks and red hazmat suits paraded in North Korea's capital overnight in a celebration of the nation's 73rd anniversary tha
Tokyo, September 9 (AP): Japan announced Thursday it is extending a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and 18 other areas until the end of September as health care systems remain under severe strain, altho
Kabul, September 9 (AP): Reminiscent of their previous harsh rule in the 1990s, the Taliban have already begun to wipe out some of Afghanistan's gains of 20 years. They've denied women a seat at the Cab
Peshawar/Kabul, September 9 (PTI): Afghanistan's acting Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund has appealed to former officials of past governments to return to the country and assured them "full
Beijing, September 8 (AP): An avalanche of changes launched by China's ruling Communist Party has jolted everyone from tech billionaires to school kids. Behind them: President Xi Jinping's vision of mak