Washington, January 23 (IANS): Amid an ongoing resurgence across the world, the global coronavirus caseload has topped 348.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.59 million and vaccinations to o
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Seoul, January 23 (IANS): South Korean quarantine officials began culling about 427,000 chickens on Sunday as a precautionary measure after the outbreaks of the H5N1 avian influenza virus or bird flu, at two fa
United Nations, January 22 (PTI): UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said that he hopes the Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan can be solved peacefully. Well, the position of the UN and the reso
Suva, January 22 (IANS): Fifty-one Fijian military personnel flew out to Australia's Brisbane on Saturday for a co-deployment mission to Tonga which was hit by the massive volcanic eruptions and a subsequen
Dublin, January 22 (IANS): Ireland will scrap most of its Covid-19 restrictions starting from Saturday following a drop in the number of new cases, the government announced. Starting from 6 a.m. on Saturday,
Houston, January 22 (IANS): A judge in Texas has blocked President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for federal employees, dealing another blow to the White House's anti-Covid efforts. The US Department o
Sanaa, January 22 (IANS): The Houthi group announced that the death toll in an airstrike launched by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition on a temporary prison controlled by the militia in Yemen has increased to 77.
Toronto, January 22 (IANS): An Indian-origin researcher at University of British Columbia (UBC) has created the world's first molecular-level structural analysis of the Omicron variant spike protein. Pub
London, January 22 (IANS): A new form of Omicron named BA.2 has been designated a "variant under investigation", with 426 cases of the Covid-19 strain's sub-lineage confirmed in Britain, the UK He
Jerusalem, January 21 (PTI): Israeli spyware company NSO Group has again landed into a controversy with the Attorney General announcing to set up a team to probe into alleged misuse of its snooping Pegasus tech
Baghdad, January 21 (AP): Militants from the Islamic State group launched sophisticated attacks in Syria and Iraq, including an attempt to break into a prison where suspected extremists are being held by US-bac
Rome, January 21 (AP): Pope Francis pledged Friday to provide justice to victims of clergy sexual abuse, a day after an independent audit faulted his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, for having botched four case
Canberra, January 21 (AP): Australia on Friday reported its deadliest day of the pandemic with 80 coronavirus fatalities, as an outbreak of the omicron variant continued to take a toll. But Dominic Perrottet-
Baghdad, January 21 (AP): Gunmen from the Islamic State extremist group attacked an army barracks in a mountainous area north of Baghdad early Friday, killing 11 soldiers as they slept, the Iraqi military and s
United Nations, January 21 (AP): As he starts his second term as U.N. secretary-general, Antonio Guterres said Thursday the world is worse in many ways than it was five years ago because of the COVID-19 pandemi
Paris, January 21 (AP): TotalEnergies and Chevron, two of the world’s largest energy conglomerates, said Friday they were stopping all operations in Myanmar, citing rampant human rights abuses and de
Phnom Penh, January 20 (IANS): The World Bank announced that it has approved new financing to help Cambodia improve equitable access to basic education. In a statement, the World Bank said it will provide a
Kortrijk, January 20 (AP): The 19-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford set a world record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, touching her small airplane down in western Belgium on Thu
Lahore, January 20 (PTI): At least three people were killed and 20 others injured on Thursday in a powerful blast at the Paan Mandi in Lahore's famous Anarkali market, where Indian commodities are sold, pol
New Delhi, January 20 (IANS): An anti-cybercrime court in Rawalpindi has sentenced a Muslim woman to death on charges of sending blasphemous material over WhatsApp, Samaa TV reported. The judge delivered the
