UNITED NATIONS, FEBRUARY 24 (IANS): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday listed four priority areas for the international community to address the risks that climate crisis poses to peac
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NAIROBI, FEBRUARY 24 (IANS): Ministers of environment and other leaders from more than 150 nations concluded a two-day online meeting of the Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) in which the Assem
KABUL, FEBRUARY 24 (IANS): Ten commuters drowned after their car fell into a river in Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan, provincial government spokesman Ahmad Shah Sahel said on Wednesday. The victims inclu
Bangkok, February 24 (AP): Regional diplomatic efforts to resolve Myanmar's political crisis gathered pace Wednesday, while protests continued in Yangon and other cities calling for the country's coupma
Jakarta, February 24 (AP): Whether taken from their homes in the middle of the night or grabbed off the streets during protests, hundreds of people have been arrested in the weeks since Myanmar's military c
Kathmandu, February 24 (PTI): Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli will not resign immediately and implement the Supreme Court's verdict against him by facing Parliament that is due to convene within two wee
Jakarta, February 24 (AP) Whether taken from their homes in the middle of the night or grabbed off the streets during protests, hundreds of people have been arrested in the weeks since Myanmar's military co-
Tehran (Iran), February 23 (AP): Iran officially has begun restricting international inspections of its nuclear facilities, state TV reported Tuesday, a bid to pressure European countries and U.S. President Joe
Washington, February 23 (PTI): The Biden administration has announced the reversal of the stringent Trump-era policy by reverting to the 2008 version of the naturalisation test module to make the path to US cit
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 23 (IANS): In a daring incident, Chinese cybercriminals managed to steal, clone and use nation-grade cyber tools from none other than the US' National Security Agency (NSA) to attack US
SYDNEY, FEBRUARY 23 (IANS): It is "extremely unlikely" that SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, escaped from a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan, a member of a World Health Organization (WHO) expert tea
KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 23 (IANS): The Nepal Prime Minister's official residence in Baluwatar saw two back-to-back high level meetings on Tuesday. A meeting of the Nepal Cabinet was preceded by a sudden disc
WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 23 (IANS): Despite additional funding needs, two-thirds of low- and lower-middle-income countries have cut their public education budgets since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, acco
Toronto, February 23 (AP): Canada's House of Commons has voted to declare that China is committing genocide against more than 1 million Uighurs in the western Xinjiang region but Prime Minister Justin Trude
SEOUL, FEBRUARY 23 (IANS): The Seoul city government vowed on Tuesday to respond strictly to all illegal rallies held in downtown squares on March 1 Independence Movement Day. Conservative groups have again
Kuala Lumpur, February 23 (AP): A Malaysian court Tuesday ordered a halt to the planned deportation of 1,200 Myanmar migrants to hear an appeal by two human rights groups, which say the migrants included refuge-
Islamabad, February 23 (AP): After more than a month of delays, escalating violence and a flurry of diplomatic activity, peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government have resumed in the Middle East
Washington, February 23 (AP): The Biden administration's early efforts to resurrect the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are getting a chilly early response from Tehran. Though few expected a breakthrough in the firs-
Washington, February 23 (AP): The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzman was arrested Monday in the United States and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plot his
Canberra, February 23 (AP): Facebook said on Tuesday it will lift its ban on Australians sharing news after it struck a deal with Australia's government on legislation that would make digital giants pay for
