Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned his US counterpart Joe Biden that imposing new sanctions over Ukraine could lead to a complete breakdown i...
Beijing: China on Friday defended the renaming of 15 more places in India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, claiming that the southern part o...
New York: A US woman was quarantined in an aeroplane bathroom for three hours after testing positive for COVID-19 halfway through a flight from Chicag...
Islamabad: Afghanistan’s former president said he had no choice but to abruptly leave Kabul as the Taliban closed in and denied an agreement was in th...
Mecca: Saudi Arabia yesterday reimposed social distancing measures at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, after recording the highest n...
Iran announced yesterday, it had carried out a new space launch, in a move likely to irk Western powers amid tough talks on reviving a 2015 nuclear de...
China’s Xian city, famous for its 'terracotta warriors' is facing trouble providing essential supplies for its 13 million locked down residents amid t...
US Navy seizes USD 4 million worth of heroin in Arabian Sea Dubai, Dec 30 (AP) United States navy vessels seized 385 kilograms (849 pounds) of heroin ...
Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has cautioned that the more transmissible Omicron together with the currently circulating Delta variants m...
Dubai: The Gulf countries are witnessing a surge in daily coronavirus cases and gradually reintroducing social distancing norms. The GCC states also m...
It is generally India that regularly protest the treatment of minority Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan. But on Monday the boot was on the other foot, whe...
Geneva: The overall risk associated with the Omicron variant remains ‘very high’ which could cause widespread disruption to health systems and other c...
Washington(US): Amid the global surge of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, almost 3,000 flights have been cancelled and more than 11,500 flights have b...
Brussels: After struggling with the coronavirus for far too long, the world understands all too well Belgium's word of the year, "knaldrang!" - ...
Seoul: The annual salary of South Korean President Moon Jae-in for 2022 was set at 240.6 million won ($202,815) as the Cabinet approved the personnel ...
A Myanmar court has postponed verdicts in two cases against the ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi till January 10, reports Reuters.The court was...
Islamabad: Pakistan and Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have resolved the recent row over border fencing by agreeing that further work on the proje...
Brasilia: At least 18 people are dead and more than 280 injured in the northeast region of Brazil due to heavy flooding.More than 35,000 people have b...
Johannesburg: Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Ca...
World’s largest and most powerful space telescope has been launched successfully into orbit to make breakthrough discoveries on the origins of the Uni...
Riyadh: In a major relief to thousands of NRIs and Umrah pilgrims, the Indian Embassy in Saudi Arabia late on Friday announced the commencement of spe...
Bethlehem: The biblical town of Bethlehem marked its second straight Christmas Eve under the shadow of the coronavirus -- with small crowds and gray, ...
Kathmandu: Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is likely to visit India in early January, sources familiar with the development confirmed to ANI.A...
Washington: United States of America will lift the travel restrictions imposed on eight southern African countries last month following the discovery ...
Dhaka: At 30 people were killed and over 200 others injured after a massive blaze ripped through a passenger ferry in Bangladesh, officials said.The o...
Washington: US President Joe Biden last night signed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act that bans import of goods into the US made with forced lab...
A draft plan has been drawn up by the US military and Japan's Self Defence Forces to enable the setup of an attack base along the Nansei island chain ...
Beijing: China is facing yet another COVID-19 outbreak forcing the government to put a lockdown on northwest Chinese city of Xian. State media reporte...
Beijing: China is redoubling efforts to control new virus outbreaks with a lockdown of the 13 million residents of the northern city of Xi’an followin...
New Delhi: Amid Omicron scare, Singapore Airlines on Wednesday announced that it will stop accepting new bookings for all Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL)...
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