MOGADISHU, MARCH 25 (IANS): The UN humanitarian agency on Wednesday said attacks on aid workers delivering humanitarian supplies in Somalia resulted in the 15 deaths last year.
The UN Office for the Coo
MOSCOW, MARCH 25 (IANS): The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should deal with urgent problems that its member countries are facing, the Russian Foreign Ministry said, after the bloc accused Moscow of
Yangon, March 25 (AP): Protesters against last month's military takeover in Myanmar returned to the streets in large numbers on Thursday, a day after staging a silence strike in which people were urged to s
DHAKA, MARCH 25 (IANS): The UN has donated $14 million to help rebuild Rohingya camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district after they were destroyed in a massive blaze earlier this week, leaving thousan
Jerusalem, March 25 (AP): Vote tallying in Israel resumed Thursday in the deadlocked parliamentary elections held earlier this week, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor those determined to topple
Bucaramanga, March 25 (AP): Thousands of Venezuelans are seeking shelter in Colombia this week following clashes between Venezuela's military and a Colombian armed group in a community along the nations'
Geneva, March 25 (AP): A team of international and Chinese scientists is poised to report on its joint search for the origins of the coronavirus that sparked a pandemic after it was first detected in China over
Geneva, March 25 (IANS) The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases have continued to increase globally for a fourth consecutive week.
In the week ending
Seoul, March 25 (AP) North Korea test-fired its first ballistic missiles since President Joe Biden took office on Thursday, as it expands its military capabilities and increases pressure on Washington while nuc
Colombo, March 24 (PTI): The critical resolution against Sri Lanka's human rights policies which was adopted by the UNHRC will take immediate effect with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Brussels, March 24 (AP): The European Union is moving toward stricter export controls to ensure that there are more COVID-19 shot supplies for the bloc which should boost its flagging vaccine drive at a ti
Kathmandu, March 24 (PTI): The Nepal government on Wednesday sounded a high alert at border transit points following a surge in coronavirus cases in India.
Stringent checking has been adopted at the transit
London, March 24 (PTI): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised a permanent memorial to all the lives lost to Covid-19 and to commemorate the entire period of pandemic, which began with a first wave this t
New Delhi, March 24 (IANS): Soon after Joe Biden was chosen to be the next President of the US, Chinese media wasted no time in calling him "old friend" - phrase that was used by Chinese head Xi Jinpi
Lahore, March 24 (PTI): A Pakistani court on Wednesday granted pre-arrest bail to Maryam Nawaz, daughter of deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif, in an illegal land acquisition case till April 12.
The Lahore
Dubai, March 24 (AP): A cargo container ship that's among the largest in the world has turned sideways and blocked all traffic in Egypt's Suez Canal, officials said Wednesday, threatening to disrupt a g
Beijing, March 24 (AP): China lashed out Wednesday at the US over racism, financial inequality and the federal government's response to the coronavirus in an annual report that seeks to counter US accusatio
BRASILIA, MARCH 24 (IANS): Brazil's Federal Supreme Court has ruled that ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was denied a fair trial when convicted of corruption in 2018 and sentenced to nine and a half
WASHINGTON, MARCH 24 (IANS): NASA will attempt to fly Ingenuity mini-helicopter, currently attached to the belly of Perseverance rover, on Mars on April 8, in first such attempt on another planet.
However, b
PYONGYANG, MARCH 24 (IANS): North Korea has condemned the European Union (EU) for including it in the targets of "human rights sanctions" under the pretext of "countering global human rights viol