Islamabad, March 29 (PTI): An over 100-year-old Hindu temple undergoing renovation in Pakistan's garrison city of Rawalpindi has been attacked by a group of unidentified people, according to a complaint reg
Nairobi, March 29 (AP): Sarah Obama, the matriarch of former US President Barack Obama's Kenyan family has died, relatives and officials confirmed Monday but did not disclose the cause of death. She was at
London, March 29 (PTI): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday called on people to remain cautious as he officially lifted the stay-at-home order to allow the first phase of easing the strict COVID-19 l
Beijing, March 29 (AP): A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is extre
Islamabad, March 29 (IANS): Pakistan on Monday launched a new door-to-door campaign to vaccinate millions of children against polio despite the risks posed by increasing coronavirus infections, an official said
Cairo, March 29 (AP): At least 480 migrants were intercepted off Libya by local coast guard forces over the weekend, according to the United Nations'' migration agency.
They are among the 4,500 peopl
Islamabad, March 29 (IANS): Pakistan has imposed a complete ban on public gatherings in strengthened efforts to counter the ongoing third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a statement from the Nati
Cairo, March 29 (IANS): A massive container ship which had blocked the Suez Canal since March 23 has been freed and re-floated, maritime service provider Inchcape Shipping said on Monday.
The Panama-flagged
Jakarta, March 29 (IANS): The perpetrators of the a suicide bombing outside a church in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province were a newly married couple, police said on Monday.
Twenty people were injured
It's terrible. It's absolutely outrageous. And based on the reporting I've gotten, an awful lot of people have been killed totally unnecessarily, Biden said.
WASHINGTON, March 29 PTI): US Preside
Yangon, March 29 (AP) Thai authorities along the country's northwestern border braced themselves on Monday for a possible influx of more ethnic Karen villagers fleeing new airstrikes from the Myanmar milita
YANGON, Myanmar, March 29 (AP) — Myanmar security forces opened fire Sunday on a crowd attending the funeral of student who was killed on the bloodiest day yet of a crackdown on protests against last mont
Nay Pyi Taw, March 28 (IANS): Defence chiefs from 12 countries condemned the Myanmar military's violence against peaceful protesters in a joint statement issued on Sunday.
The US, the UK, Germany, Italy,
Suez (Egypt), March 28 (AP): Two additional tugboats sped Sunday to Egypt's Suez Canal to aid efforts to free a skyscraper-sized container ship wedged for days across the crucial waterway, even as major shi
MOSCOW, MARCH 28 (IANS): Russian President Vladimir Putin expects that the country will achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 by the end of summer.
Putin made the assertion that "this will happen"
Colombo, March 28 (PTI): Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Sunday said the recent UNHRC resolution against his country was the doing of local and foreign forces which do not want Sri Lanka to progress,
Minneapolis, March 28 (AP): Opening statements are set for Monday in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder and manslaughter in George Floyd's death.
Derek Chauvin's tri
NEW YORK, MARCH 28 (IANS): In a big relief, NASA has ruled out the possibility of asteroid Apophis impacting Earth in 2068, saying that our planet is safe from this notorious space rock for at least a century.
Bangkok, March 28 (AP): A pageant contestant from Myanmar has used her moment in the spotlight to appeal for urgent international help for her country as security forces suppressing protests against last month&
CAIRO, MARCH 28 (IANS): The death toll in a collapse of a residential building in the Egyptian capital of Cairo has increased to 23, the civil defence service said on Sunday.
Twenty-five others were injured