London, January 22 (IANS): A new form of Omicron named BA.2 has been designated a "variant under investigation", with 426 cases of the Covid-19 strain's sub-lineage confirmed in Britain, the UK He
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Jerusalem, January 21 (PTI): Israeli spyware company NSO Group has again landed into a controversy with the Attorney General announcing to set up a team to probe into alleged misuse of its snooping Pegasus tech
Baghdad, January 21 (AP): Militants from the Islamic State group launched sophisticated attacks in Syria and Iraq, including an attempt to break into a prison where suspected extremists are being held by US-bac
Rome, January 21 (AP): Pope Francis pledged Friday to provide justice to victims of clergy sexual abuse, a day after an independent audit faulted his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, for having botched four case
Canberra, January 21 (AP): Australia on Friday reported its deadliest day of the pandemic with 80 coronavirus fatalities, as an outbreak of the omicron variant continued to take a toll. But Dominic Perrottet-
Baghdad, January 21 (AP): Gunmen from the Islamic State extremist group attacked an army barracks in a mountainous area north of Baghdad early Friday, killing 11 soldiers as they slept, the Iraqi military and s
United Nations, January 21 (AP): As he starts his second term as U.N. secretary-general, Antonio Guterres said Thursday the world is worse in many ways than it was five years ago because of the COVID-19 pandemi
Paris, January 21 (AP): TotalEnergies and Chevron, two of the world’s largest energy conglomerates, said Friday they were stopping all operations in Myanmar, citing rampant human rights abuses and de
Phnom Penh, January 20 (IANS): The World Bank announced that it has approved new financing to help Cambodia improve equitable access to basic education. In a statement, the World Bank said it will provide a
Kortrijk, January 20 (AP): The 19-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford set a world record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, touching her small airplane down in western Belgium on Thu
Lahore, January 20 (PTI): At least three people were killed and 20 others injured on Thursday in a powerful blast at the Paan Mandi in Lahore's famous Anarkali market, where Indian commodities are sold, pol
New Delhi, January 20 (IANS): An anti-cybercrime court in Rawalpindi has sentenced a Muslim woman to death on charges of sending blasphemous material over WhatsApp, Samaa TV reported. The judge delivered the
Washington, January 20 (PTI): US President Joe Biden has said that Vice President Kamala Harris would be his running mate if he stood for office again in 2024. President Biden made this emphatic assertion on
London, January 19 (AP): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defied calls to resign in a feisty performance Wednesday in Parliament but it may be too little to prevent his Conservative Party's lawmakers fr
Ankara, January 19 (IANS): Turkey and Serbia have agreed to bring together leaders of Bosnians, Croats, and Serbs in a bid to solve the crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan h
San Francisco, January 19 (IANS): Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has slammed the United Nations (UN) once again, saying that there are "not enough people" in the world and one should be more worr
Jakarta, January 19 (IANS): Indonesian lawmakers passed a law on the relocation of the nation's capital to the island of Kalimantan, which shares borders with Malaysia and Brunei, from the most populated is
Davos, January 18 (PTI): It is not possible to end the COVID-19 virus as such viruses never go away and end up becoming part of the ecosystem, a top WHO official said on Tuesday but asserted that it is possible
United Nations/Geneva, January 18 (PTI): UN human rights experts have voiced grave concern over attempts by the Taliban in Afghanistan to steadily erase women and girls from public life, saying women from ethni
Luanda, January 18 (IANS): Angola estimates to produce 10.5 million carats of diamonds in 2022 with a revenue of $1.4 billion, the country's National Diamond Company (Endiama) announced here. The informa
