GENEVA, DECEMBER 17 (IANS): A top World Health Organization (WHO) official has called for greater vigilance amid the roll-out of a Covid-19 vaccine, saying the vaccine is not a "silver bullet&quo
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Washington, December 17 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed the 74 million mark, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.64 million, according to the Johns Hopkins Universit
Washington, December 16 (AP): More than a month after the election, top Republicans finally acknowledged Joe Biden as the next US president on Tuesday, a collapse in GOP resistance to the millions of voters who
Washington, December 16 (AP): Almost no place has been spared and no one. The virus that first emerged a year ago in Wuhan, China, swept across the world in 2020, leaving havoc in its wake. More than any eve-
London, December 16 (PTI): The UK government is reviewing the tiered lockdown allocations for different parts of the country as scheduled by law on Wednesday, even as millions of more people in and around
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Kankara (Nigeria), December 16 (AP): Anger, fear and exhaustion. Anxiety has overwhelmed many parents in Nigeria's northern village of Kankara who await word on their sons who are among the more than 330 ki
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Brussels, December 16 (AP): The European Union unveiled Wednesday plans to revamp the 27-nation bloc's dated cybersecurity rules, just days after data on a new coronavirus vaccine was unlawfully accessed in
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Islamabad, December 16 (PTI): A lawyer representing the parents of slain US journalist Daniel Pearl informed Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday that the mastermind behind the murder is an international t
WENCHANG, DECEMBER 16 (IANS): China's Long March-8 Y1 rocket was vertically transported to the launching area of the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province on Wednesday, accord
NANJING, DECEMBER 16 (IANS): An imported frozen food sample in the city of Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province, tested positive for the novel coronavirus, local authorities said Tuesday. The sample was t
Islamabad, December 16 (PTI): A high-level Afghan-Taliban delegation arrived here on Wednesday to hold talks with the top Pakistani leadership as part of efforts to push forward the reconciliation process, amid
New York, December 16 (IANS): US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn into office on the steps of the United States Capitol on January 20, 2021, just like other America-
Singapore, December 15 (PTI): The Singapore Police on Tuesday said it is investigating social media posts showing people gathering here without permission in support of protesting Indian farmers and issued a &q
Kabul, December 15 (AP): A bombing and a shooting attack in Kabul killed at least three people, including a deputy provincial governor, while a deputy provincial council chief was killed in western Afghanistan-
Moscow, December 15 (AP): A fire in a retirement home in Russia's southern Urals killed 11 people while three more were hospitalised with injuries, local officials said Tuesday. The fire broke out in the
Washington, Deemberc 15 (PTI): US President-elect Joe Biden has told election-weary Americans that it is time to "turn the page", after the Electoral College affirmed his triumph over President Donald
London, December 15 (PTI): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accepted his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi's invitation to be the chief guest at the Republic Day parade on January 26, Downing Street said-
Tel Aviv, December 15 (PTI): A total of 252 Jews, including infants and elderly, from India's north-eastern Bnei Menashe community on Tuesday landed at the Ben-Gurion airport here as immigrants and to start
GAZA, DECEMBER 15 (IANS): The Hamas movement has called for internal unity and popular resistance against Israel as it marked 33 years of its creation. In a statement on Monday, Hamas said that it would cont
GENEVA, DECEMBER 15 (IANS): Around 1.8 billion people are at heightened risk of Covid-19 and other diseases because they use or work in healthcare facilities without basic water services, the World Health Organ
