Reuters, Taipei :The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, will visit Taiwan next week for meetings with senior Taiwanese leaders, Taiwan’s government and the U.S. mission to the U.N. said, prompting China...
AFP, Paris :French producers of foie gras called Thursday for a mass preventive cull of ducks to try to halt the spread of a severe strain of bird flu that is ripping through poultry...
Reuters, Lahore :A Pakistan court on Friday sentenced Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi, a senior official of militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), to five years in jail for terrorism financing.Lakhvi and the group are accused by...
Reuters, Dubai :Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards unveiled an underground missile base at an undisclosed Gulf location today, Iranian state media reported, at a time of heightened tension between Tehran and the United States.“The base...
Hindustan Times, New Delhi :Farmers protesting against the Centre’s three laws have organised a tractor march on Thursday, converging on the eastern and western peripheral expressways that form a ring around Delhi, as the...
AFP :A Baghdad court has issued a warrant for the arrest of US President Donald Trump as part of its investigation into the killing of a top Iraqi paramilitary commander.Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy...
Reuters, Tokyo :Japan declared a limited state of emergency in the capital, Tokyo, and three neighbouring prefectures on Thursday to stem the spread of the coronavirus, resisting calls from some medics for wider curbs...
Reuters :President-elect Joe Biden will nominate federal appeals judge Merrick Garland to be the next US attorney general, a Biden transition official said on Wednesday, a choice most Americans know as the Supreme Court...
The New York Times :A small but rigorous clinical trial in Argentina has found that blood plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients can keep older adults from getting seriously sick with the coronavirus – if...
Reuters, Accra :Soldiers entered Ghana’s parliament to break up a scuffle between rival lawmakers at odds over last month’s elections, hours before President Nana Akufo-Addo was due to be sworn in on Thursday.The clash...
Reuters, Kathmandu : Nepal’s top court began hearings on Wednesday on petitions challenging Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli’s sudden decision to dissolve parliament, as protesters against his move marched nearby.Oli, 68, has cited internal...
Dawn.com : Pakistan’s Lahore High Court has declared that the two-finger test (TFT) and the hymen test for the purposes of ascertaining virginity of a female victim of rape or sexual abuse as illegal...
