-- 2021-01-03 20:56:19
At least 70 civilians were killed in simultaneous attacks on two villages by suspected Islamist militants in Niger, near the border zone with Mali, security sources said on Saturday. About 49 village...
-- 2021-01-03 19:31:55
At least 18 people attending a funeral in northern India were killed when a roof they were sheltering under during heavy rainfall collapsed on Sunday afternoon, a police officer said. Around 40 mourn...
-- 2021-01-03 19:06:52
Pope Francis condemned on Sunday people who had gone abroad on holiday to escape coronavirus lockdowns, saying they needed to show greater awareness of the suffering of others, reports Reuters. Speak...
Reuters 2021-01-03 18:35:07
India on Sunday granted emergency approval to Bharat Biotech's COVAXIN but faced questions after taking the step without publishing efficacy data for the homegrown coronavirus vaccine. The news, anno...
Reuters 2021-01-03 18:15:57
Germany is likely to extend a national lockdown beyond January 10 to curb coronavirus infection rates that are still running high and putting huge strains on hospitals and health workers, politicians...
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India’s drugs regulator on Sunday gave final approval for the emergency-use of two coronavirus vaccines, one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and the other by local company Bharat...
REUTERS 2021-01-03 13:14:07
Saudi Arabia said that entry to the kingdom by sea, land and air will be resumed starting Sunday after a ban that lasted two weeks amid fears of a new coronavirus variant, the state news agency report...
REUTERS 2021-01-03 10:42:00
US Senator Ted Cruz on Saturday said he will spearhead a drive by nearly a dozen Republican senators to challenge President-elect Joe Biden’s victory when Electoral College results are tallied i...
-- 2021-01-03 10:13:07
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urged US President Donald Trump on Saturday not to be “trapped” by an alleged Israeli plan to provoke a war through attacks on US forces in Ir...
-- 2021-01-02 22:37:11
The 75th United Nations General Assembly has adopted its resolution on the human rights situation of the Rohingya and other minority groups in Myanmar, with nine countries changing their stance in fav...
-- 2021-01-02 20:46:22
A suicide bombing in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Saturday killed five people including two Turks, the Turkish health minister said. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group claimed respons...
Reuters 2021-01-02 20:19:03
India’s federal territory of Jammu and Kashmir plans to attract investments worth up to $4.0 billion in the next two to three years and would provide security to businesses setting up shop in...
-- 2021-01-02 19:26:23
Mumbai attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was arrested on Saturday in Pakistan on terror financing charges, an official said. Lakhvi, who was on ba...
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Thai health authorities on Saturday recommended tougher restrictions on businesses and people's movement in 28 provinces, including the capital Bangkok, as the number of new coronavirus cases rises, r...
-- 2021-01-02 17:39:06
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday said that more than 371,500 children would be born on the first day of 2021. “The children born today enter a world far different th...
-- 2021-01-02 17:34:59
Japan will consider issuing a new emergency declaration after governors in the capital region urged action to tackle a record surge in Covid-19 cases, the head of the nation’s pandemic response...
Reuters 2021-01-02 16:55:50
US Senator Mitt Romney on Friday urged the US government to immediately enlist veterinarians, combat medics and others in an all-out national campaign to administer coronavirus vaccinations and slow a...
REUTERS 2021-01-02 15:30:30
Pakistan’s famous truck art will move from its highways to the skies, as a flying academy is painting a two-seater Cessna aircraft with the colourful technique. With elaborate and flamboyant mo...
Reuters 2021-01-02 15:20:04
Vietnam has detected its first imported case of the new coronavirus variant that is spreading rapidly around Britain, the health ministry said on Saturday. The variant was detected in a 44-year-old w...
-- 2021-01-02 15:19:29
Indian Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has said that coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccines would be free of cost across the country. "Not just in Delhi, it (vaccine) will be free across the country," Vardhan...
-- 2021-01-02 12:55:05
President Donald Trump suffered a stinging rebuke in the US Senate on Friday when fellow Republicans joined Democrats to override a presidential veto for the first time in his tenure, pushing through...
-- 2021-01-02 12:47:15
The number of people killed in large commercial airplane crashes rose in 2020 to 299 worldwide, even as the number of crashes fell by more than 50 per cent, a Dutch consulting firm said on Friday. Av...
-- 2021-01-02 10:58:30
Iran has told the United Nations nuclear watchdog it plans to enrich uranium to up to 20 per cent purity, a level it achieved before its 2015 accord, at its Fordow site buried inside a mountain, the a...
-- 2021-01-02 10:46:43
Australia amended its national anthem to remove reference to the country being “young and free” amid calls to recognise that its Indigenous people are the oldest continued civilisation in...
-- 2021-01-01 20:54:09
Pakistan and India on Friday conducted the annual practice of exchanging the list of their nuclear installations under a bilateral arrangement that prohibits them from attacking each other's atomic fa...
-- 2021-01-01 20:27:22
The US killing of top general Qassem Soleimani will not deter Iranian resistance, a senior commander said on Friday as tensions mounted in the build-up to the first anniversary of the drone strike. T...
-- 2021-01-01 19:11:22
India's drug regulator on Friday approved a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University for emergency use, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. The approval paves the...
-- 2021-01-01 19:03:28
Insurgents from western Myanmar on Friday released three ruling party politicians who had been kidnapped from conflict-torn Rakhine state, a spokesman for the insurgent group said, calling it a goodwi...
-- 2021-01-01 18:52:14
As the Covid-19 infections spreading fast, its global caseload hit 83.3 million on Friday, according to data released by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The data showed the total caseload reached...
Reuters 2021-01-01 18:42:11
Australia amended its national anthem to remove reference to the country being "young and free" amid calls to recognise that its Indigenous people are the oldest continued civilisation in the world....
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