Rome, January 28 (AP): Pope Francis denounced fake news about COVID-19 and vaccines Friday, blasting the distortion of reality based on fear but also urging that people who believe such lies are helped to under
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Moscow, January 28 (AP): Russia's top diplomat said Friday that Moscow will not start a war in Ukraine but warned that it wouldn't allow the West to trample on its security interests, amid fears it is p
Kabul, January 28 (IANS): A human rights body has warned that millions of Afghans were at risk due to the economic measures imposed on the war-torn nation that are preventing aid agencies from moving funds into
Seoul, January 28 (IANS): North Korea's top envoy in Geneva has claimed the recent series of weapons tests do not pose any threat to its neighbours and called on the US to permanently end military exercises
Irbil (Iraq), January 28 (AP): In a classroom in northern Iraq, Zhiwei Hu presides over his students as a conductor would an orchestra. He cues with a question, and the response from his students resounds in pe
Bangkok, January 28 (AP): The International Labour Organisation says about 1.6 million jobs were lost in Myanmar in 2021, with women suffering the worst setbacks as work in factories, tourism and construction d
Tokyo, January 28 (AP): Japan's government said Friday it will watch the World Health Organization's investigation into staff complaints over racism and abuse by a top Japanese official at the agency bu
Brussels, January 27 (AP): Holocaust survivors and politicians warned about the resurgence of antisemitism and Holocaust denial as the world remembered Nazi atrocities and commemorated the 77th anniversary of t
Beijing, January 27 (AP): From the deadly crushing of Beijing's 1989 pro-democracy protests to the suppression of Hong Kong's opposition four decades later, China's Communist Party has demonstrated
Seoul, January 27 (AP): North Korea on Thursday fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea in its sixth round of weapons launches this month, South Korea's military said. Experts say North
Geneva, JanUARY 27 (AP): Current and former staffers have accused the top director of the World Health Organization in the Western Pacific of racist, unethical and abusive behaviour that has undermined the UN h
Amman, January 27 (AP): The Jordanian military said Thursday that troops have killed 27 suspected smugglers attempting to enter the country from neighbouring Syria. The report on the army's website said
With the current funding model, the World Health Organisation (WHO) "is set to fail", warned the global health body chief. Geneva, January 25 (IANS): With the current funding model, the
Jakarta, January 25 (IANS): Nineteen people were found dead in a nightclub, which caught fire, following a clash between two community groups in Sorong city of Indonesia's West Papua province on Tuesday, a
Damascus, January 25 (IANS): As many as 3,500 families have so far fled their homes in Syria's northeastern province of Hasakah amid US airstrikes and clashes between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Force
Dubai, January 25 (IANS): The Defence Ministry of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced that it intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles fired by Yemen's Houthi militia. Monday's launch, w
United Nations, January 25 (IANS): Iran, Guinea and Vanuatu have resumed their voting rights in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) after their arrears have been paid to the world body, a spokesperson said. "
Berlin, January 25 (IANS): Germany's railway operator, Deutsche Bahn have started test operations for battery-powered passenger trains. Manufactured by French company Alstom, test runs for the Battery El
Beirut, January 25 (IANS): Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri called on members of his Future Movement party to boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections. "We will continue to serve our peopl
Seoul, January 25 (IANS): A revised law on foreign residents in South Korea took effect on Tuesday, granting Afghan evacuees administrative and financial support on par with recognised refugees, the Justice Min
