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
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
Kabul, June 3 (AP): A bomb ripped through a minivan in a mostly Shiite neighbourhood of the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least four people, a police spokesman said.
No one immediately claimed respo
Melbourne, June 3 (The Conversation): Few parts of the world would seem as inhospitable to humans as the highlands of the Tibetan Plateau, near the Himalayas. Archaeologists have long wondered when, where and h
Beijing, June 3 (AP): China said Thursday its relationship with Cambodia has made positive contributions to regional peace and stability, after the US expressed concerns about the presence of the Chinese milita
Toronto, June 3 (AP): Canada's Indigenous services minister said Wednesday that Pope Francis needs to issue a formal apology for the role the Catholic Church played in Canada's residential school system
Jerusalem, June 3 (PTI): Who could think barely two weeks ago when Israel struggled with its worst communal tensions internally, and not just the barrage of rockets fired from Gaza, that a historic combina
Washington, June 3 (PTI): Donald Trump has permanently closed his blog, a webpage where the former US president shared his fiery speeches and statements after being banned by social media giants, including Face
Jerusalem, June 2 (PTI): Veteran Israeli politician Isaac Herzog will be the Jewish nation's new president after his overwhelming victory in a secret ballot held in Parliament, it was announced on Wednesday
Bangkok, June 2 (AP): A US State Department official called on Wednesday for the immediate release of two American journalists who were arrested by Myanmar's military junta.
Deputy Secretary of State Wen
Toronto, June 2 (IANS): Canadians fear there could be more graves of indigenous children after the discovery of the remains of 215 kids from the grounds of a former native school.
The discovery of the remain
NEW YORK, JUNE 2 (IANS): China, Japan, Philippines and Thailand may turn into "hotspots" favourable for bats that carry coronaviruses and conditions in these places could become ripe for the disease t
Jakarta, June 2 (AP): Indonesia's foreign minister on Wednesday urged the Association of Southeast Asia Nations to immediately appoint a special envoy on Myanmar in response to its military coup, and reiter