AP, Kabul :U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived unannounced in Afghanistan on Monday to assess America’s longest war as the...
Reuters :WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that Covid-19 booster shots should be delayed as priority should be...
AFP, Vienna :The UN’s nuclear watchdog confirmed Monday that Iran was installing advanced centrifuges as the troubled 2015 deal with...
AFP, Colombo :A Briton whose bride died on their honeymoon two days after arriving in Sri Lanka will be allowed...
Reuters, Kathmandu :Four women wearing protective gear lift the body of a coronavirus victim at the Pashupati crematorium in Nepal’s...
: Reuters Two years into office, President Donald Trump authorised the Central Intelligence Agency to launch a clandestine campaign on Chinese social media aimed at turning public opinion in China against its government, according to former US officials with direct knowledge of the highly classified operation. Three former officials told Reuters that the CIA created a small team of operatives who used bogus internet identities to spread negative narratives about Xi Jinping’s government while leaking disparaging intelligence to overseas news...
AFP :A 90-year-old woman who died after falling ill with Covid-19 was infected with both the Alpha and Beta variants...
Israel’s parliament has failed to pass an extension to a controversial law barring Palestinians from the occupied West Bank or...
AP, Srinagar :The death toll from a major day of voting in the world’s biggest election rose to nine Friday,...
AFP :The United States on Friday announced two exemptions to its sanctions imposed on Afghanistan in a bid to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid into the conflict-wracked, Taliban-controlled country.The provisions allow the US government, aid groups and international organizations “to engage in the provision of humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan or other activities that support basic human needs” there, the US Treasury said in a statement.They also allow “certain transactions related to the exportation or reexportation of agricultural commodities, medicine,...
AFP, Jakarta :Faulty equipment and the crew’s “inability to control the aircraft” caused an AirAsia A320 to crash into the Java Sea last year, killing all 162 people onboard, an Indonesian report said Tuesday.Flight QZ8501 plunged into the ocean in stormy weather on December 28, during what was supposed to be a routine flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.The crash of the Airbus A320-200 triggered a huge international search, with ships and aircraft from several nations involved...
AFP, Moscow :Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he would not bend the law to extend his term in power...