TOKYO, MAY 7 (IANS): A bill to amend Japan's national referendum law on revision of the Constitution is likely to be enacted during the current parliamentary session, as a lower house commission approved th
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SANAA, MAY 7 (IANS): With 20 million Yemenis in need of immediate assistance in the face of conflict and the Covid-19 pandemic, "the humanitarian situation is falling off a cliff" in the war-torn coun
KABUL, MAY 7 (IANS): Scores of militants have been killed in Afghanistan's Baghlan province as government forces launched a counter-offensive to repel Taliban attacks, a police official said on Friday. &
Lisbon, May 7 (AP): On the list of things not to do during a pandemic, holding big international gatherings is close to the top. But European Union leaders and their large following of diplomats and advisers
Melbourne, May 7 (PTI): Australia will lift a ban on its citizens returning from COVID-hit India from next Saturday and the first repatriation flight will land in the city of Darwin the same day, Prime Minister
Beijing, May 7 (AP): China has opened Mount Everest's northern slope to a few dozen mountaineers who will be tested for the coronavirus and must keep their distance while ascending the world's highest p
Jakarta, May 7 (IANS): Mount Sinabung in Indonesia's North Sumatra province has erupted again, spewing a wthick ash column up 2,000 metres above its peak, the country's Volcanology and Geological Hazard
Kathmandu, May 7 (IANS): Tourism officials in Nepal have rejected claims about foreign climbers, attempting to summit Mount Everest and other peaks, being infected with the novel coronavirus. "We have b
Kolkata, May 7 (IANS): Armed opponents of the Myanmar military junta have killed three administrators appointed by them in the Yangon, Mandalay and Sagaing regions in targeted attacks. Regime-appointed ward
Rio de Janeiro, May 7 (IANS): At least 25 people were killed and another five injured on Thursday in an intense shootout in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro between police and suspected drug traffickers. Accordin
Tokyo, May 7 (IANS): Japan will extend the Covid-19 state of emergency currently in effect in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures until the end of the month, the Minister in charge of the government's
Riyadh, May 7 (IANS): Saudi Arabia said on Friday that getting vaccinated against Covid-19 would be mandatory for all employees to attend their workplaces in an effort to curb the spread of the virus. Saudi.jpg)
Bangkok, May 6 (AP): A flash mob of mostly young people in Myanmar's biggest city staged a brief protest march Thursday against military rule, the latest in a series of actions aimed at reducing the chances
Kolkata, May 6 (IANS): Chasing a lead generated by SIGINT interception, Bangladesh counter-terrorism officials have nabbed a militant of radical Islamist group Ansar-al-Islam, who has admitted to planning an at
The Hague, May 6 (AP): The International Criminal Court sentenced a Ugandan former child soldier who turned into a brutal rebel commander to 25 years' imprisonment Thursday, with judges saying that his own
ROME, MAY 6 (IANS): Global conflicts, economic crises and extreme weather conditions have pushed the number of people who faced acute food insecurity to 155 million in 2020, the highest figure in five years, th
KABUL, MAY 6 (IANS): The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan has further intensified since the start of the withdrawal of the US-led forces from the country on May 1 as the Taliban militants have stepped up activit
Beijing, May 6 (AP): China's government on Thursday rejected criticism of its human rights and economic record by foreign ministers of the Group of Seven major economies and accused them of meddling in its
TEHRAN, MAY 6 (IANS): Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the regime of US anti-Tehran sanctions has been shattered. "As the head of the (Iranian) government, I declare to the people that the san
BERLIN, MAY 6 (IANS): The German government has banned Ansaar International, an Islamic group, and its sub-organisations on suspicion of financing terrorist groups outside the country, Interior Minister Horst S
