Washington, December 18 (PTI): US President-elect Joe Biden has announced his climate and energy team, which the transition said is ready on day one to advance his agenda and lead the world to confront the unde
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Berlin, December 18 (AP): The secretary general of the United Nations on Friday stressed that as wealthy nations roll out the coronavirus vaccine for their citizens, the world also needs to ensure it is availab
United Nations, December 18 (PTI): Afghanistan has said that the Taliban have increased their levels of violence and continued relationship with global terror groups, asserting that any leniency on the sanction
London, December 18 (PTI): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that a no-deal Brexit is now a "very likely" outcome as a trade agreement with the European Union (EU) remained in a serious situa-
Kabul, December 18 (AP): A bomb rigged to a rickshaw killed at least 15 children and wounded 20 others in a Taliban-controlled area in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, a provincial official said, as violence in t
UNITED NATIONS, DECEMBER 18 (IANS): The UN has announced an allocation of $35 million for water, sanitation and medical supplies, and for the protection of civilians caught up in the ongoing conflict in Ethiopi
MADRID, DECEMBER 18 (IANS): The Spanish Congress of Deputies or the lower chamber of Parliament approved a bill to legalise euthanasia. The bill, allowing euthanasia in "a context of a chronic and disab-
ABUJA, DECEMBER 18 (IANS): At least 344 students who were kidnapped from a school in Nigeria's Katsina state have been released, a government official announced. "I think we have recovered most of t
SUVA, DECEMBER 18 (IANS): Two people have died in Fiji after the category 5 tropical cyclone Yasa hit the island nation, Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama confirmed on Friday, adding the number of fatalities wa
KABUL, DECEMBER 18 (IANS): Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has invited the Taliban to Kandahar province to engage in a discussion for bringing peace to the war-torn country, the media reported. Addressing an e
KABUL, DECEMBER 18 (IANS): At least 30 militants were killed in an airstrike targeting a gathering of Taliban fighters Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Friday, a government official said. "A group o
Washington, December 18 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 74.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.66 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In i
Washington, December 17 (PTI): The inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on January 20 will be a low-key affair restricted for the public, the organisers
Moscow, December 17 (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday rejected allegations that the Kremlin was behind the poisoning of his top political foe, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and accused US i
Paris, December 17 (AP): French President Emmanuel Macron is the latest world leader to test positive for COVID-19, joining a growing list of others just as inoculation drives against the illness are beginning
Beijing, December 17 (PTI): China's Chang'e-5 probe successfully touched down on Earth in the early hours of Thursday, bringing home the first samples of the moon in over 40 years. The spacecraft lan
BAGHDAD, DECEMBER 17 (IANS): Two oil wells in Iraq's Kirkuk province were set ablaze by Islamic State (IS) terrorists, said Minister of Oil Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail, adding that the fires have been success
GENEVA, DECEMBER 17 (IANS): A team of 10 international scientists will travel to the Chinese city of Wuhan next month to investigate the origins of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), the World Health Organizatio
ISLAMABAD, DECEMBER 17 (IANS): In a phone call with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan called on all sides in the war-torn country for a reduction in violence so as to lead to the
BEIJING, DECEMBER 17 (IANS): China's National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Thursday vowed to increase the country's forest coverage rate to 24.1 per cent in the next five years. The natio
