Hanoi, January 17 (IANS): Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has resigned and has had his memberships at the Politburo and the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) removed, the Viet
Islamabad, January 17 (IANS): A day after Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif offered to talk to India on "burning issues", the country's PMO clarified that it will not hold negotiations with i
Kiev, January 17 (IANS): The death toll in the Russian missile attack on an apartment building in Ukraine's Dnipro city reached 44 on Tuesday.
Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov has confirmed the toll, Ukrainska
Hong Kong, January 16 (IANS) After the World Health Organisation (WHO) and top global leaders asked China to share more data on Covid and the virus origin, top epidemiologists from the country said it takes tim
Kathmandu, January 16 (IANS) A woman who was killed in the Yeti Airlines plane crash in Nepal had lost her pilot husband also in a tragic plane crash 17 years ago.
The victim, Manju Khatiwada, 44, was the co
Kathmandu, January 15 (IANS) The death toll in the plane crash tragedy in Pokhara of Nepal's Kosaki district mounted to 68.
"The bodies of 64 victims have been taken to the Pokhara Academy of Health
Kathmandu, January 15 (IANS) The Nepal government has announced a national mourning on Monday over a plane crash in Nepal's Kaski district that claimed 35 lives.
The Cabinet has announced a public holida
Tripoli, January 14 (IANS) The UN Secretary-Special General's Representative for Libya has reaffirmed support for reconciliation efforts.
In a tweet posted on Friday, Abdoulaye Bathily said he met Abdull
Manila, January 14 (IANS) Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos has ordered government agencies to step up the fight against "rampant smuggling" in the country, the presidential communications office
New Delhi, January 14 (IANS) After having received serious political blows, one after the other, from Imran Khan in Punjab province during the last two consecutive days, the PML-N London is considering coming b
New Delhi, January 13 (IANS) Healthcare workers across China are seeing large numbers of people who have been re-infected with the Omicron variant of Covid-19, putting a further strain on the country's bele
Los Angeles, Januray 14 (IANS) Omicron new subvariant XBB.1.5 is estimated to account for 43 per cent of the Covid-19 cases in the US for the week ending January 14, according to data released by the US Centers
Taipei, January 13 (IANS) Private services offering Chinese travellers access to mRNA vaccines are attracting droves of mainlanders to Hong Kong and Macau seeking a booster shot that their government has refuse
London, January 13 (IANS) Vladimir Putin will nominate his chosen successor this year rather than risk being toppled as the Russian President's popularity continues to plummet amid a series of military defe
Beijing, Janurary 13 (IANS) China's meteorological authority on Friday issued the second highest alert for a cold wave, forecasting big temperature drops, gales, and heavy snow in vast regions of the countr
Kiev, Januray 13 (IANS) Ukraine is tightening up the defence of its border with Belarus, said Serhiy Nayev, commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces.
"We professionally perform the tasks assign
Jerusalem, January 13 (IANS) With rapid implementation of its hardline policies since taking office two weeks ago, the new Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, considered the most rightist i
Islamabad, January 12 (IANS) The World Economic Forum (WEF) sees Pakistan facing a huge threat of hunger and distress amid a prevalent cost-of-living crisis, warning that it may be further aggravated by extreme
London, January 11 (IANS) The boss of the feared Wagner mercenary group has gloated to Ukraine by posing in a captured salt mine in a key battleground, according to a media report.
Yevgeny Prigozhin stood de
Hong Kong, Januray 11 (IANS) A Chinese team has claimed that their new, quantum code-breaking algorithm could dramatically reduce the scale of a practical quantum computer, which has raised eyebrows in the US,