Islamabad, July 2 (IANS): In a bold decision, Pakistan has decided and announced that it will not provide any bases on its soil to the US to operate from, after its troops exit Afghanistan.
The decision came
Cape Canaveral (US), July 2 (AP): Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson is aiming to beat fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos into space by nine days.
Branson's company announced Thursday evening that its next
Ljubljana, July 2 (IANS): Slovenia has formally taken over the six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) , with a focus on tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery, enhancing resilience
New York, July 2 (AP): Donald Trump's company and its longtime finance chief were charged Thursday in what prosecutors called a sweeping and audacious tax fraud scheme in which the executive collected more
Manila, July 2 (IANS): Evacuations of families living close to an island volcano in the Philippines' Batangas province were underway on Friday, a day after phreatomagmatic eruptions sent "a dark grayis
Canberra, July 2 (IANS): Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday described the country's coronavirus vaccine rollout as a "phenomenal failure of public administration".
Washington, July 1 (AP): The Biden administration on Thursday designated 17 countries as not doing enough to combat human trafficking and warned them of potential US sanctions.
The administration also called
Kabul, July 1 (IANS): A total of 33 militants were killed in Afghan airstrikes that struck Taliban gatherings in Kaldar and Shortepa districts of Balkh province, an army spokesman said on Thursday.
Acting on
Islamabad, July 1 (PTI): Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said Pakistan accepts the "Chinese version" of the treatment of Uighurs, a minority Muslim ethnic group, in China's restive Xinjiang
Geneva, July 1 (AP): The World Health Organisation said Thursday that any COVID-19 vaccines it has authorised for emergency use should be recognised by countries as they open up their borders to inoculated trav
Bangkok, July 1 (AP): A court in Myanmar on Thursday extended the pretrial detention of Danny Fenster, a US journalist employed by an online news magazine in the military-led Southeast Asian nation who was arre
Phuket, July 1 (AP): Thailand embarked on an ambitious but risky plan Thursday that it hopes will breathe new life into a tourism industry devastated by the pandemic, opening the popular resort island of Phuket
Washington, July 1 (AP): Trump Organisation CFO Allen Weisselberg surrendered to authorities early Thursday ahead of expected charges against him and former President Donald Trump's company, according to mu
Washington, July 1 (AP): Sharply split along party lines, the House launched a new investigation of the Jan 6 Capitol insurrection, approving a special committee to probe the violent attack as police officers w
London, July 1 (PTI): Voicing concern over many countries failing to vaccinate their people, WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday called for vaccinating at least 10 per cent of the population of
KABUL, JULY 1 (IANS): Afghan forces foiled a Taliban attack in Ghoryan district of Herat province, resulting in the death of 20 militants, an official statement said on Thursday.
Hundreds of Taliban insurgen
WASHINGTON, JULY 1 (IANS): Former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the main architect of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has died, according to a statement by his family released Wednesday. He was 88.
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Beijing, July 1 (PTI): President Xi Jinping on Thursday called for building a strong military to defend the country and warned that the Chinese people will never allow any foreign force to "bully, oppress,
Seoul, July 1 (AP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Thursday he'll push to further upgrade relations with China, his main ally, as he struggles to navigate his country out of a deepening crisis linked
Hong Kong, July 1 (AP): Marking the anniversary of Hong Kong's return to Chinese control, a top city official defended the national security law imposed by Beijing to crush pro-democracy rallies and said Th