Geneva, December 3 (IANS) The World Health Organization (WHO) said that although the world is "much closer" to end the emergency phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, it warned that Omicron was still circul
Kiev, December 2 (IANS) A top government official in Kiev has revealed that up to 13,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia waged its ongoing war on February 24.
Speaking to Ukrainian media on
Lima, December 2 (IANS) Peru has entered into its fifth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic after an increase of confirmed cases in the past three weeks, Health Minister Kelly Portalatino announced.
A total of 6,5
Kabul, December 2 (IANS) Since Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021, there has been a dramatic increase in early marriages of Afghan girls -- a trend activists and human rights campaigners attribute to pare
London, December 2 (IANS) Vladimir Putin has fallen down the stairs at his official residence and soiled himself while continuing to suffer from cancer, a Telegram
channel which claims links to his bodyguards
Islamabad, December 2 (IANS) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan may get arrested before the next general elections in the Toshakhana case, former president Asif Ali Zardari has claimed, local me
United Nations, December 1 (IANS): UN General Assembly President Csaba Korosi has called for action as the goal to end AIDS by 2030 is "badly off track".
In a message for World AIDS Day, which fall
Washington, December 1 (IANS): Former US President Bill Clinton announced that he has tested positive for Covid-19, with mild symptoms.
In a tweet late Wednesday, the 76-year-old said: "I've tested
Washington, December 1 (IANS) They have become a symbol of China's recent wave of protests: Blank, white sheets of paper held aloft by demonstrators to signify their opposition to anti-virus lockdowns, cens
Kiev, December 1 (IANS) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that about 6 million households across the war-torn nation are without electricity as a result of Russian strikes hitting critical power i
Islamabad, December 1 (IANS) Exactly a week after former Pakistan Army Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa referred to the East Pakistan loss as a "political failure", Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari in a t
Paris, December 1 (IANS) The BQ.1.1 subvariant of Covid-19 is currently taking precedence over the BA.5 strain in France, a top health expert told the local media.
Brigitte Autran, president of the Committee
Phnom Penh, December 1 (IANS) Ninety-nine per cent of the registered HIV-positive patients in Cambodia have received free antiretroviral drugs, Prime Minister Hun Sen said in a message marking World AIDS Day on
London, November 30 (IANS): Protesters screamed as they threw glass bottles at scores of cowering hazmat-clad riot police in China, as demonstrators continue to defy President Xi Jinping's brutal Communist
Geneva, November 30 (IANS): Around 3.6 billion people currently face inadequate access to water at least a month per year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in its State of Global Water Resources
Washington, November 30 (IANS): A Pentagon report revealed that China has warned the US not to interfere with Beijing's relationship with India.
Throughout the 2020-2021 standoff in the Galwan Valley in
Geneva, November 30 (IANS): The civilian suffering caused by various conflicts across the world combined with a worsening climate emergency and rising food and energy prices will make 2023 a year of vast humani
Phnom Penh, November 30 (IANS): Kun Lbokator, Cambodia's traditional martial art, has been inscribed on the Unesco's representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
The inscripti
New York, November 29 (IANS) In the pandemic's early phases, most deaths were among older adults, but in 2021, deaths in younger persons increased while deaths in older persons decreased, a new study has fo
New York, November 29 (IANS) The White House is keeping a "close eye" on Twitter under Elon Musk and will not allow the platform to incite violence against individual communities, as the world's r