Kabul, July 24 (IANS): Thirty-three Taliban militants were killed and 17 others injured in strikes conducted by the Afghan Air Force (AAF) in two provinces, the Defence Ministry confirmed on Saturday.
In Jaw
Beijing, July 24 (IANS): The Chinese mainland has reported 13 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, with 12 in Jiangsu and one in Sichuan, the National Health Commission said on Saturday.
Also reported wer
Jerusalem, July 24 (PTI): Amidst the raging controversy over its surveillance software Pegasus, Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group has defended itself by saying that millions of people around the world sle
New York, July 24 (IANS): America's Covid-19 curve is creeping up in the wrong direction, again. The "incredible efficiency" of the Delta variant is being blamed for Covid-19 cases roaring ba
Washington, July 24 (IANS): The US and Russia will hold a Strategic Stability Dialogue on July 28 in Geneva, the State Department said on Friday.
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will lead the US dele
Miami, July 24 (IANS): Search operations to locate more bodies have officially ended almost one month after the 12-storey residential building partially collapsed in Surfside, a beachside town in Florida,
Dhaka, July 24 (IANS): Bangladesh has entered its most severe nationwide lockdown to curb the rampant spread of Covid-19.
Authorities decided to impose the strict lockdown from July 23 to August 5 after rela
New Delhi/Kabul, July 24 (IANS): The Taliban on Saturday slammed the US airstrikes in the Afghan provinces of Kandahar and Helmand, as a violation of the Doha agreement.
The airstrikes carried out on Th
Beijing, July 23 (PTI): Chinese President Xi Jinping has made a rare visit to Nyingchi, a strategically located border town close to Arunachal Pradesh, during his first visit to the politically sensitive region
Washington, July 23 (IANS): The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 192.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.12 million and vaccinations soared to over 3.74 billion, according to
Washington, July 23 (IANS): The US military in the past few days conducted airstrikes in Afghanistan to support the war-torn country's security forces, the Pentagon said.
Ina statement on Thursday, Penta
London, July 23 (IANS): Supermarkets in the UK have warned that the rising number of retail workers being forced to self-isolate due to Covid-19 has started to threaten the availability of some products.
New
Nairobi, July 23 (IANS): The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Africa is at a crossroads, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said.
As the rate of new cases fell by less than 2 per cent o
Islamabad, July 23 (IANS): With the detection of 1,425 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, Pakistan's overall infection tally on Friday crossed the 1 million mark amid the fourth wave of the pandemic,
Wellington, July 23 (IANS): New Zealand on Friday reported 19 new cases of Covid-19 in managed isolation, but no fresh community infection, according to the Ministry of Health.
All of the 19 infected persons
Seoul, July 23 (IANS): South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-kun and visiting US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on Friday held the ninth round of the South Korea-US vice foreign ministerial
Jerusalem, July 23 (PTI): Amid the Pegasus snooping case backlash, Israel has established a committee to review the allegations of misuse of the NSO group's surveillance software and hinted at a possible &q
Bangkok, July 23 (AP): Prisoners inside Myanmar's most notorious jail held a protest Friday, singing popular songs opposing the military government and chanting political slogans, according to nearby reside
Berlin, July 23 (AP): Germany's national railway operator estimated on Friday that last week's flooding caused 1.3 billion euros' (USD 1.5 billion) worth of damage to its network, offering another g
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) Chinese President Xi Jinping has made an unannounced visit to Tibet. Video clips shared on Chinese social media by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), a Washington-based advoca