Baghdad, October 10 (AP): Iraq closed its airspace and land border crossings on Sunday as voters headed to the polls to elect a parliament that many hope will deliver much needed reforms after decades of confli
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Taipei, October 10 (AP): Taiwan's president on Sunday vowed to defend the island from China's rising pressure for reunification, after a week of unprecedented tensions with Beijing. Speaking at the i
Beirut, October 9 (AP): President Bashar Assad allowed his exiled uncle back into Syria to avoid serving a four-year prison term in France, where he had spent more than 30 years, a Syrian pro-government newspap
Islamabad, October 9 (AP): The Taliban on Saturday ruled out cooperation with the US to contain extremist groups in Afghanistan, staking out an uncompromising position on a key issue ahead of the first direct t
Quito, October 9 (IANS): Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso has called for greater international cooperation to protect the Amazon through the sustainable use of biodiversity in the world's largest tropic
Seoul, October 9 (IANS): North Korea appears to be still operating its uranium enrichment plant at the Yongbyon nuclear complex, a US website monitoring Pyongyang's activities said on Saturday. "Ima
Islamabad, October 9 (AP): Senior Taliban officials and U.S. representatives are to hold talks Saturday and Sunday about containing extremist groups in Afghanistan and easing the evacuation of foreign citizens
Beijing, October 9 (PTI): Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday made a strong pitch for the reunification of Taiwan with the mainland amidst heightened tensions with the estranged island, saying the Taiwan q
Tehran, October 9 (AP): Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran's first president after the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the
Tel Aviv, October 8 (IANS): More than 2,500 Israeli medical residents and interns have resigned amid a dispute with the country Health Ministry over the length 26-hour shifts, the Medical Residents Organization
Kabul, October 8 (IANS): A suicide bomber has targeted a mosque in Afghanistan's Kunduz city during Friday prayers, killing at least 50 people, officials said. Images on social media showed bodies a
London, October 8 (IANS): Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov were on Friday conferred the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 for "their courageous fight for freedom of expression" in their homeland, the P
Washington, October 8 (IANS): The US Senate has approved a bill to increase the nation's borrowing limit in the short term to avert a looming debt default. Late Thursday night, the Senate voted 50-48 alo
Tokyo, October 8 (IANS): Fumio Kishida, the newly elected Japanese Prime Minister, on Friday delivered his first policy speech, vowing to reach economic growth for the country with his "new form of capital
Seoul, October 8 (IANS): The remains of two police officers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War have been identified through DNA analysis after they were recovered from a former battle site more than a decade ago,
Washington, October 8 (IANS): A nuclear-powered US Navy fast-attack submarine was damaged after it "struck an object" while it was underwater in the Indo-Pacific region on October 2, the US Pacific Fl
Beijing, October 8 (IANS): Lionrock, the 17th typhoon to affect China this year, is heading toward the island province of Hainan, local meteorological authorities said on Friday. The typhoon, escalated from.jpg)
Stockholm, October 7 (AP): U.K.-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose experience of crossing continents and cultures has fed his novels about the impact of migration on individuals and societies, won
Seoul, October 7 (IANS): Top security officials held a National Security Council (NSC) meeting on Thursday and discussed ways of reopening stalled dialogue with North Korea after the recent restoration of cross
United Nations, October 7 (IANS): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that Ethiopia has no right to expel UN staff and it is violating the international law in doing this. In his right of reply at the
