CAIRO, JUNE 16 (IANS): Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Wednesday called on the newly elected Israeli government to take brave decisions for reaching a peace deal in the region, the country's fore
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Beijing, June 16 (PTI): Jack Ma, the Chinese billionaire and founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, who last year ran into trouble with the Chinese government is keeping a low profile and has taken up painting as
Washington, June 16 (IANS): The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 176.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.81 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its lates
Kathmandu, June 16 (IANS): Floods and landslides have wreaked havoc in Nepal following the incessant rains on Tuesday and Wednesday, leaving scores dead and missing. More than 50 people are missing in a mass
Seoul, June 16 (AP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned about possible food shortages and called for his people to brace for extended COVID-19 restrictions as he opened a major political conference to discu
Beijing, June 16 (PTI): China is all set to send the first three crew members to its new space station for three months on Thursday morning, the country's space agency announced on Wednesday. The spacesh
Jerusalem, June 16 (AP): Israeli aircraft carried out a series of airstrikes at militant sites in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, the first such raids since a shaky cease-fire ended the war with Hamas last mont
Geneva, June 16 (AP): President Joe Biden and Russia's Vladimir Putin sit down Wednesday for their highly anticipated summit in the Swiss capital, a moment of high-stakes diplomacy at a time when both leade
Seoul, June 16 (AP): The health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has long been a source of morbid fascination in rival South Korea, which sits in the shadow of Kim's 1.2-million-strong army and his growin
CHICAGO, June 15 (AP) — An argument in a house on Chicago’s South Side erupted into gunfire early Tuesday, leaving four women dead and four other people injured, police said. The shooting happene
NEW YORK, June 15 (AP) — A new analysis of blood samples from 24,000 Americans taken early last year is the latest and largest study to suggest that the new coronavirus popped up in the U.S. in December 2
Bangkok, June 15 (AP): The trial of Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi entered its second day Tuesday, with the prosecution presenting arguments that she incited public disorder and flouted coronavir
Dubai, June 15 (AP): Saudi Arabia executed a young man on Tuesday who was convicted on charges stemming from his participation in an anti-government rebellion by minority Shiites. A leading rights group said
Tel Aviv, June 15 (IANS): Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to topple the new eight-party diverse coalition government which brought an end to his stint as the longest-serving premier o
London, June 15 (PTI): The Delta variant of coronavirus, first identified in India, doubles the risk of hospitalisation compared with the Alpha variant first found in the UK, but Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.jpeg)
Beita (West Bank), June 15 (AP): Israel's fragile new government has shown little interest in addressing the decades-old conflict with the Palestinians, but it may not have a choice. Jewish ultranat
Versailles, June 15 (AP): A French court ordered home furnishings giant Ikea to pay more than 1 million euros (USD 1.2 million) in fines and damages Tuesday over a campaign to spy on union representatives, empl
Bangkok, June 15 (AP): The trial of Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi entered its second day Tuesday, with the prosecution presenting arguments that she incited public disorder and flouted coronavir
Colombo, June 15 (IANS): Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigations Department has arrested the captain of the burnt MV X-Press Pearl container ship which caught fire on the outskirts of the Colombo Port on May 20
WELLINGTON, JUNE 15 (IANS): New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Tuesday opened the country's first meeting on countering terrorism and violent extremism, which is being held in Christchurch over th
