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  • Iran threatens US Army base and top general
    Washington, March 21 (AP): Iran has made threats against Fort McNair, an Army base in the nation's capital, and against the Army's vice chief of staff, two senior US intelligence officials said. They
  • N Korean diplomats leaving Malaysia after ties are severed
    Kuala Lumpur, March 21 (AP): North Korean diplomats vacated their embassy in Malaysia and were expelled Sunday, after the two nations cut diplomatic relations in a spat over the extradition of a North Korean cr
  • Philippine defense chief asks Chinese flotilla to leave reef
    Manila (Philippines), March 21 (AP): The Philippine defense chief on Sunday demanded more than 200 Chinese vessels he said were manned by militias leave a South China Sea reef claimed by Manila, saying the
  • EU urges Turkey to return to treaty on women's rights
    BRUSSELS, MARCH 21 (IANS): The European Union's (EU) top diplomat and the President of the EU Commission on Sunday condemned Turkey's decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention on women's rig
  • US defense chief arrives in Kabul on 1st trip to Afghanistan
    Kabul, March 21 (AP): State media reported that US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived on Sunday in Kabul on his first trip to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, amid swirling questions about how long American t
  • Unicef concerned over kids' death by landmine in Libya
    UNITED NATIONS, MARCH 21 (IANS): The Unicef has expressed concerns over the death and injury of children by a landmine in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. "Unicef is deeply concerned over the death and in
  • Khamenei calls US' maximum pressure policy failure
    TEHRAN, MARCH 21 (IANS): Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Washington's maximum pressure policy against Tehran has been a failure. The enemies of Iran, led by the US, sought to b
  • Doctors' dawn march kicks off Sunday protests in Myanmar
    Mandalay, March 21 (AP): A peaceful march at dawn on Sunday by medical professionals in Myanmar's second biggest city kicked off another day of protests around the country against last month's coup. Sec
  • Trump sticking to unproven claims of election fraud
    Washington, March 21 (IANS): Former US President Donald Trump is still sticking to his unproven claims of election fraud more than four months after he was defeated by Joe Biden. "Sadly, the election wa
  • '2,000 British pubs didn't survive pandemic'
    London, March 21 (IANS): Thousands of British pubs have not survived the raging coronavirus pandemic, and the ones that have will need financial support "for years if they are to recover", according t
  • Thousands protest against Germany's virus rules
    Berlin, March 21 (IANS): More than 20,000 people rallied against Germany's coronavirus restrictions in the city of Kassel during which clashes broke out between police and participants. Protesters on Sat
  • Thai police use tear gas, rubber bullets to break up protest
    Bangkok, March 21 (AP) Scores of people were injured and arrested in the Thai capital after police used water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets Saturday night to break up a rally by pro-democracy protesters
  • Global Covid-19 caseload tops 122.7 mn
    Washington, March 21 (IANS) The overall number of global Covid-19 cases has surpassed 122.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.70 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its
  • Critics of Brazil's president being targeted by security law
    Sao Paulo, March 20 (AP): Police in Brazil are starting to employ a dictatorship-era national security law against critics of President Jair Bolsonaro, while lawyers and activists rally to provide them with leg
  • '5 WH employees lose jobs over drug use'
    Washington, March 20 (IANS): Despite a less restrictive policy on marijuana under US President Joe Biden, five White House employees have lost their jobs due to past drug use, Press Secretary Jen Psaki announce
  • Paris begins month-long lockdown
    Paris, March 20 (IANS): A month-long coronavirus lockdown went into effect in Paris and other French regions on Saturday as the country is struggling to contain a third wave of the pandemic. About one in thr
  • Covaxin gets Emergency Use Authorization in Nepal
    Kathmandu, March 20 (IANS): Nepal's drug regulatory body has approved India's Covaxin jab against Covid-19 for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). Nepal's EUA approval for Covaxin, produced b
  • Finland suspends use of AstraZeneca vaccine
    Helsinki, March 20 (IANS): The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) on Friday announced a one-week suspension of the AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine in the country despite the previous day's re
  • UK PM gets AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab
    London, March 20 (IANS): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was hospitalised last year with a severe bout of Covid-19, has received his first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine against the virus. Taking to Tw
  • 7.2-magnitude quake jolts Japan, tsunami advisory issued
    Tokyo, March 20 (IANS): An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale struck Japan's Miyagi Prefecture on Saturday, authorities said, adding a tsunami advisory has been issued. The temblor occurr
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