Lahore, June 4 (PTI): A top Pakistani court here has set aside a death sentence handed down to a Christian couple by a lower court seven years ago and acquitted them of blasphemy charges, citing lack of evidenc
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KABUL, JUNE 4 (IANS): Afghanistan's Acting Minister of Public Health Wahid Majrooh has expressed concerns over the coronavirus situation in the country and urged the civilians to follow the government-issue
London, June 4 (AP): A people's tribunal set up to assess whether China's alleged rights abuses against the Uyghur people constitute genocide opened in London on Friday, with witness alleging that inmat
Seoul, June 4 (AP): South Korea's air force chief stepped down Friday in the face of public anger over the death of a female master sergeant whose family says she killed herself after being sexually abused
Hong Kong, June 4 (AP): Police arrested an organizer of Hong Kong's annual candlelight vigil remembering the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown and warned people not to attend the banned event Friday as auth
Jakarta, June 4 (IANS): Indonesia's most active volcano Merapi erupted four times with lava flowing as far as 1,500 metres from the crater, according to the Geological Disaster Technology Research and Devel
Colombo, June 4 (IANS): The Sri Lankan government announced that it has launched a search operation to locate the Voyage Data Recorder (VDR) from the Singapore-flagged X Press Pearl container ship which caught
Gaza, June 4 (IANS): The Hamas-run Ministry of Agriculture in Gaza announced othat it has stopped importing Israeli fruits after the Jewish state banned the export of vegetables from the besieged enclave to the
Beirut, June 4 (IANS): Ferid Belhaj, World Bank Group Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa, said the global lender is ready to contribute towards the reconstruction of Beirut following the widesp
London, June 4 (IANS): The UK's Queen Elizabeth II will meet US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at the Windsor Castle next week, the Buckingham Palace has confirmed. In a statement issued o
United Nations, June 4 (IANS): With factors contributing to transnational corruption becoming increasingly complex, the UN has launched an initiative to "empower all countries" to find practical solut
Melbourne, June 4 (IANS): Authorities in Victoria on Friday issued an alert as a new Covid-19 variant was detected in the Australian state's latest outbreak and the source of the strain is still unidentifie
United Nations, June 4 (IANS): Drought and a rain deficit is pushing more than 2.73 million people in Somalia towards the crisis level of acute food insecurity, Uthe UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitari
Santiago, June 4 (IANS): Chile has temporarily suspended the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 for people under 45 years of age, after an "adverse event" was reported in a person immunised w
United Nations, June 4 (IANS): UN officials have called for access to the long-abandoned fuel tanker off Yemen's coast amid growing fears of a catastrophic oil spill. Political and logistical gridlocks i
Chicago, June 4 (IANS): Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that the third largest US city will fully reopen on June 11, in line with the date of reopening of the state of Illinois ordered by Governor J.B. P
Islamabad, June 4 (IANS): Two policemen were shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Islamabad, sources in the Pakistani capital city said on Friday. The incident occurred when the policemen late on Thursda.jpg)
BANGKOK, June 3 (AP): A military court in Myanmar has sentenced two journalists to two years in prison for their reporting, a move that was decried by rights groups as the latest assault on press freedom since
Kyiv, June 3 (AP): A dissident journalist who was arrested after his plane was diverted to Belarus said in a video from prison that protests against the country's authoritarian leader had fizzled and the op-
Paris, June 3 (AP): Thirteen people went on trial on Thursday in Paris accused of cyberbullying or death threats against a teenage girl who posted online comments critical of Islam. The case is the first suc
