SEOUL, JUNE 2 (IANS): South Korea has unveiled a fully assembled model of its homegrown space rocket for the first time since the country started its development in 2010 as it conducts final testing procedures
Tehran, Jun 2 (AP): The largest warship in the Iranian navy caught fire and later sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances, semiofficial news agencies reported.
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Kuala Lumpur, June 1 (AP): Malaysia's air force said Tuesday that 16 Chinese military jets flew in a tactical formation over the South China Sea and nearly infringed on the country's airspace, call
BRUSSELS, JUNE 1 (IANS): Europe is ready to take leadership in the fight against climate change, said Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, via video link at the 2021 Partnering for Green
OTTAWA, JUNE 1 (IANS): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that his government will take further actions in response to the discovery of the remains of 215 children in a former residential school in Kam
NAY PYI TAW, JUNE 1 (IANS): Myanmar's Foreign Affairs Ministry announced the extension of entry restrictions for all travellers until the end of June due to the raging Covid-19 pandemic.
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Wellington, June 1 (AP): New Zealand announced Tuesday it was the latest country to sign a space agreement with NASA, just as New Zealand's nascent space industry begins to take off.
New Zealand bec
Geneva, June 1 (IANS): The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that Covid-19 variants of concern will be known by letters of the Greek alphabet, saying it will help avoid stigmatising countries where
Oakland, June 1 (IANS): Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic early last year, Oakland city in the US state of California has witnessed a sharp increase in the number of homicides, a media report said citing
Beijing, June 1 (IANS): A human infection with the H10N3 strain of avian influenza has been found in China's Jiangsu province, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Tuesday.
The patient, a 41-year
Colombo, June 1 (IANS): Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigations Department announced that it had appointed a 10-member team of detectives to investigate the incidents surrounding the burning X-Press Pearl conta
Abuja, June 1 (IANS): Eleven students who were abducted following an attack on a school in Nigeria's Niger state, have been released, a government official said.
Mary Noel-Berje, a spokeswoman for the st
Geneva, June 1 (IANS): The Covid-19 pandemic has proved that the world needs a pandemic treaty to strengthen both the World Health Organization (WHO) and global health security, WHO Director-General Tedros Adha
Gaza City, May 31 (AP): A senior Hamas official said Monday that Israel must halt its aggression in both Gaza and Jerusalem if it wants calm following an 11-day war earlier this month.
Khalil al-Haya spoke a
Singapore, May 31 (PTI): Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Monday the deadly coronavirus will not disappear completely and will keep infecting people for years to come, urging citizens to c
Jerusalem, May 31 (PTI): Israel could be headed for a break from the "Bibi-regime" as several former allies of longest-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seem to have joined hands with politica
Beijing, May 31 (AP): China's ruling Communist Party will ease birth limits to allow all couples to have three children instead of two to cope with the rapid rise in the average age of its population, a sta
Brasilia, May 30 (IANS): Thousands of Brazilians took to the streets across major cities in the country to protest against the Covid policies of President Jair Bolsonaro and his government.
In Rio de Janeiro
Cairo, May 30 (AP): Egypt and Israel are holding high-level talks in both countries Sunday to shore up a fragile truce between Israel and the Hamas militant group, and rebuild the Gaza Strip after a punishing 1
Kabul, May 30 (AP): A mortar shell hit a wedding ceremony in northern Afghanistan, killing at least seven people, mostly children, and wounding at least four others, a police spokesman said.
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