Ottawa, July 4 (IANS): Canada is suspending its extradition treaty with Hong Kong as part of a package of responses to the new security law China has imposed on the city, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said here
Seoul, July 4 (IANS): North Korea feels that there is "no need to sit face to face with the US" for talks, a top Pyongyang diplomat said on Saturday, accusing Washington of taking advantage of a dialo
Jerusalem, July 4 (IANS): Israel was responsible for two blasts at Iranian facilities, one related to uranium enrichment and the other for missile production, over the past week, a Kuwaiti newspaper has claimed
Seoul, July 4 (IANS): The South Korean Army has decided not to allow a former non-commissioned officer, who was forcibly discharged after a sex reassignment surgery, to return to the military, officials said.
Washington, July 4 (IANS): US President Donald Trump slammed the removal of controversial monuments as "a merciless campaign" in attempts to wipe out American history, as he kicked off the Independenc
WASHINGTON, July 4 (Reuters) - Global coronavirus cases exceeded 11 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, marking another milestone in the spread of the disease that has killed more than half a milli
GENEVA, July 3 (Reuters): Almost 30% of genome sequencing data from samples of the COVID-19 virus collected by the World Health Organization (WHO) have shown signs of mutation, but there is no evidence thi
GENEVA/LONDON, July 3 (Reuters): The World Health Organization (WHO) should soon get results from clinical trials it is conducting of drugs that might be effective in treating COVID-19 patients, its Direct
SYDNEY/SINGAPORE, July 3 (Reuters): Many Hong Kong residents are scouring for new jobs and homes overseas, fearful that a new national security law imposed by Beijing will crush coveted rights not enjoyed
DUBAI, July 3 (Reuters): Iran will retaliate against any country that carries out cyber attacks on its nuclear sites, the head of civilian defence said, after a fire at its Natanz plant which some Iranian
LONDON, July 3 (Reuters): A previously HIV-positive man who is only the second known adult worldwide to be "functionally cured" of HIV called on Friday for people living with the AIDS-causing virus, a
ANKARA, JULY 3 (IANS): At least 50 people were injured in an explosion at a fireworks factory in Turkey's northwestern province of Sakarya on Friday.
Citing a statement of Sakarya Governor Ceti
TRIPOLI, Lebanon, July 3 (Reuters): For Amer al Dahn, the idea of eating meat is now a dream. Today, he can't even afford bread and depends on credit from the local grocer to feed his wife and four chi
MOSCOW, uly 3 (Reuters): President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russian society had shown unity by voting to back reforms allowing him to stay in power until 2036 and that Russians had felt the need for t
RAYONG/AYUTTHAYA, Thailand, July 3 (Reuters): Thai fisherman Anan Jaitang used to pile tattered nylon fishing nets on the beach after hauls of wriggling crabs tore them beyond repair, but most of the nets
BUENOS AIRES, July 3 (Reuters): Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina are the Latin American countries that earned the best grades for their response to the coronavirus, according to a poll conducted in the regi
LONDON, July 3 (Reuters): A woman who had plotted a suicide bomb attack on London's St Paul's Cathedral this Easter in support of Islamic State was jailed for life on Friday and told she must serve
ZAGREB, July 3 (Reuters): Croatians vote on Sunday to choose a government whose abiding challenge will be to haul the economy out of recession triggered by the coronavirus outbreak, with an awkward ruling
MANILA, July 3 (Reuters): Thousands of jeepneys, flamboyantly decorated jeeps that serve as cheap public transport across the Philippines, were back on the streets of Manila on Friday, bringing relief
GENEVA, July 3 (Reuters): The U.N. human rights office voiced concern on Friday that "vague and overly broad" provisions in Hong Kong's new national security law may lead to activists being p