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KABUL, FEBRUARY 7 (IANS): Afghan National Security Advisor (NSA) Hamdullah Mohib claimed that the Taliban has no intention towards being committed to the country's peace process, adding that the militant gr
SEOUL, FEBRUARY 7 (IANS): North Korea is scheduled to hold a plenary meeting of its ruling Workers' Party this week to finalise plans for "strategic tasks" for this year, a state media report said
Tehran, February 7 (AP): Iran's supreme leader says the US must lift all sanctions if it wants Iran to return to its commitments to the nuclear deal with Western powers, state TV reported Sunday. The tel
Yangon, February 7 (AP): Thousands of people rallied against the military takeover in Myanmar's biggest city on Sunday and demanded the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, whose elected government was toppled by t
Kabul, February 6 (IANS): A police officer was killed and six civilians were injured in two separate bombings in Kabul on Saturday, the latest in a string of explosions to hit the Afghan capital in recent month-
Bloomingdale, February 6 (AP): A shooting early Saturday at a hotel in suburban Chicago left one person dead and several others injured, police said. Officers who responded about 2:35 a.m. to a report of sho
LONDON, FEBRUARY 6 (IANS): Researchers at University of Cambridge have revealed a mechanism by which climate change could have played a direct role in the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the Covi
BEIJING, FEBRUARY 6 (IANS): China's space probe Tianwen-1 has sent back the first image of Mars that it captured from a distance of 2.2 million km from the Red Planet. The China National Space Administra
China flags Taiwan as core issue, asks US to rectify 'mistakes' of Trump admin's aggressive policiesBeijing, February 6 (PTI): In its first contact with the Biden administration, China on Saturday asked the US to rectify the "mistakes" of former President Donald Trump's aggressive policies towar
Kabul, February 6 (AP): Two separate explosions rocked the Afghan capital of Kabul on Saturday, killing at least three people including members of the minority Sikh community and wounding four others, Afghan of-
Washington/Beijing, February 6 (PTI): The US will hold China accountable for its abuses of the international system, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said as he spoke to his Chinese counterpart Yan
UNITED NATIONS, FEBRUARY 6 (IANS): Two million additional cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) may occur over the next decade as Covid-19 "shutters schools and disrupts programmes that help protect gir
NAY PYI TAW, FEBRUARY 6 (IANS): In the wake of the military coup, Myanmar has blocked access to micro-blogging platform Twitter and photo-sharing app Instagram on Saturday, just two days after the country direc
United Nations, February 6 (AP): The United Nations kicked off the selection of its next secretary-general on Friday, asking the 193 UN member states to submit candidates to be the world organisation's chie
Islamabad, February 6 (IANS): Pakistan Army launched an aerial search operation on Saturday to locate a missing mountaineer and his team members who are on an expedition to summit K2, the second highest peak of
Ottawa, February 6 (IANS): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has urged citizens not to worry about the increasing concerns on the Covid-19 vaccine rollout in the country. "When the vaccines are goi
Berlin, February 6 (IANS): German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that her country's attitude towards the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project is, for the present, "unaffected" by Russia's treatme
Washington, February 6 (IANS): The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 105.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.29 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its
Washington, February 6 (AP): President Joe Biden said Friday that Donald Trump should not be allowed to receive classified intelligence briefings, a courtesy that historically has been granted to outgoing presi
