AP :Kathy Hochul became the first female governor of New York at the stroke of midnight Tuesday, taking control of a state government desperate to get back to business after months of distractions over...
Reuters :The coronavirus pandemic may have pushed as many as 80 million people in developing Asia into extreme poverty last year, threatening to derail progress on global goals to tackle poverty and hunger by...
AFP :Scores of journalists are among the tens of thousands of people trying to flee Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover, fearful of violent reprisals from the militants. Despite their assurances, the Islamist group’s return to...
PTI, NEWDELHI : India added 25,467 new COVID-19 cases, while the active cases declined to 3,19,551, comprising 0.98 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, according to the Union Health...
Reuters :WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that Covid-19 booster shots should be delayed as priority should be given to raising vaccination rates in countries where only 1% or 2% of the...
Scroll.in :Tensions along the Assam-Mizoram border arose again on Sunday over the construction of a bridge, PTI reported. The Mizoram police filed a case against Assam police officers for allegedly stealing building material from...
Reuters :Vietnam deployed soldiers to the streets of Ho Chi Minh City on Monday to help enforce a strict lockdown in the country’s biggest urban area and the current epicentre of its worst coronavirus...
Reuters :China’s health authority reported on Monday that there were no new locally transmitted cases of Covid-19 for the first time since July, offering more signs that the current outbreak which began late last...
AFP :Scores of firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft battled a forest fire that broke out early Monday on the southern part of Greece’s Evia island, less than two weeks after an inferno decimated its...
Reuters :UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said the UK will leave Kabul airport at the same time as US forces.Speaking to media on Monday, he confirmed Prime Minister Boris Johnson will “try and...
AFP :Devastating floods in the southern US state of Tennessee have left at least 21 people dead and dozens missing, local officials said Sunday in what they warned was a preliminary toll.Tennessee was hit...
AFP :After two decades out of power, the Taliban are swiftly moving to stamp their authority on Afghanistan using every tool at their disposal — including flags.Since rolling into Kabul a week ago, the...
