Islamabad, December 30 (AP): 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 the works for a peaceful takeover, dispu
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Hong Kong, December 30 (AP): Two former editors from a Hong Kong online pro-democracy news outlet were charged with sedition and denied bail Thursday, a day after one of the last openly critical voices in the c
BANGKOK, December 30 (AP): When the young farmhand returned to his village in Myanmar, he found the still smoldering corpses in a circle in a burned-out hut, some with their limbs tied. The Myanmar military
Singapore, December 30 (PTI): Experts in Singapore, which is seeing a surge in Omicron cases, have warned that the new and supposedly more contagious variant is likely to replace Delta over the coming weeks as
Bamiyan (Afghanistan), December 30 (IANS): Chilling winters bring new challenges for Afghans, and life continues to go from bad to worse for many families who are unsure about their next meal. Kubra,
Canberra, December 30 (IANS): Protesters on Thursday set fire to the Old Parliament House in Australia's capital city of Canberra, which badly damaged the front entrance of the building. Firefighters wer
Wellington, December 30 (IANS): New Zealand reported 60 new cases of Covid-19 in the community on Thursday, increasing the country's overall infection tally to 13,687. Among the new infections, 20 were r
Beijing, December 30 (IANS): The Chinese mainland reported 156 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Thursday. Of the new loc
Lisbon, December 30 (IANS): Portugal registered 26,867 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, setting a new single-day spike since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020. The cumulative number of infe
United Nations, December 29 (AP): Days before its start date, an international conference on a landmark Cold War-era nuclear treaty is poised to be postponed because coronavirus cases are surging in the host ci
Kabul, December 29 (IANS): In the wake of several new restrictions imposed by the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan, several women staged a protest in Kabul calling for their right to education, employment
United Nations, December 29 (IANS): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday suggested that the world should commit to making 2022 as a year of recovery for everyone. In his year-end message to the
BANGKOK, December 29 (AP): The humanitarian group Save the Children said Tuesday it has confirmed that two of its staff were among at least 35 people, including children, who were killed in eastern Myanmar on C
Hong Kong, December 29 (AP): For Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, 2021 has been a year in which the city's authorities and the central government in Beijing stamped out nearly everything it had stood
Jakarta, December 29 (AP): Indonesian prosecutors postponed their sentencing demand Wednesday for a top terror suspect who eluded capture for 18 years and is accused of masterminding deadly attacks and sectaria
Sydney, December 29 (AP): Coronavirus cases surged across Australia on Wednesday as an outbreak of the omicron variant exploded, prompting Prime Minister Scott Morrison to schedule an emergency national cabinet
Sacramento, December 29 (AP): California became the first state to record more than 5 million known coronavirus infections, according to the state dashboard Tuesday, which was delayed by the holiday weeken
Dhaka, December 29 (IANS): The Unicef said on Wednesday that it has delivered over 100 million Covid-19 vaccines to Bangladesh since June this year. "The arrival today of 20.46 million doses of vaccines
Berlin, December 29 (IANS): The power supply in Germany is secure despite the country pushing ahead with its nuclear phase-out, Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Robert Habeck said. At the end
Seoul, December 29 (IANS): South Korea and the US have "effectively" agreed on the draft text of the proposed declaration of a formal end to the 1950-53 Korean War, amid their continued push to resume
