MIAMI, JANUARY 25 (IANS): A banner with with the words, "Trump worst President ever" was reportedly flown by a plane near the former US leader's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, according to a media
ADDIS ABABA, JANUARY 25 (IANS): The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that desert locust swarms are expected to descend on large parts of Ethiopia and Kenya in the coming weeks.
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Beijing, January 25 (IANS): A day after 11 trapped workers were rescued from a gold mine in China's Shandong province, authorities on Monday retrieved the bodies of the 10 other miners, while one was still
San Francisco, January 25 (IANS): Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, who has been a target of conspiracy theorists for his push for vaccinations, has received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.
London, January 25 (IANS): With new Covid-19 strains reported from several parts of the world giving fresh threats to the fight against the pandemic, a group of scientists is calling on governments to consider
Taipei, January 25 (AP): Chinese state media have played up questions about Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine and whether it could be lethal to the very old. A government spokesperson suggests the coronavirus could
Mexico City, January 25 (IANS): Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced on Monday that he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, becoming the latest to join a long list of world leaders
Tel Aviv, January 25 (IANS): Israel has announced that it has opened an embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), following a normalisation deal signed last year to establish diplomatic ties between the two na
Seoul, January 25 (IANS): Lee Jae-yong, the de facto head of Samsung Group, has decided not to appeal the ruling that sentenced him to two and a half years in prison for corruption charges, including bribery, h
Tallinn, January 24 (AP): Estonia's two biggest political parties say they have clinched a deal to form a new government to be led by a female prime minister for the first time in the Baltic country's h
KATHMANDU, JANUARY 24 (IANS): Discord and division continue inside the Nepal Communist Party, which has not split formally but has virtually fallen apart after Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli unilaterally decide
Lisbon, January 24 (AP): Portugal held a presidential election Sunday, with the moderate incumbent candidate strongly favored to earn a second five-year term as a devastating COVID-19 surge grips the European U
Islamabad, January 24 (PTI): Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Sunday that his country was ready to work with the new US administration and asserted that the world has changed a lot i
Jakarta, January 24 (AP): Indonesian authorities said that they seized an Iranian tanker and Panamanian tanker suspected of carrying out the illegal transfer of oil in their country's waters Sunday.
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Johannesburg, January 24 (PTI): Cashing in on the fearful atmosphere prevailing in South Africa amidst a second wave and a new variant of the COVID-19 virus, some Hindu priests in the country are allegedly char
Beijing, January 24 (PTI): Eleven miners, trapped underground for two weeks following a blast in a gold mine in east China's Shandong Province, have been rescued, the state media reported on Sunday.
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London, January 24 (IANS): The organiser of a wedding attended by 400 guests in London is facing a fine of 10,000 pounds ($13,682) for a "shameful" breach of the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown, police said
Tehran, January 24 (IANS): A top Iranian official has said that the Islamic Republic has had no contact with the administration of new US President Joe Biden, stressing that any possible talks could only be hel
Washington, January 24 (PTI): Expressing concern over Chinese military pressure on Taiwan, the United States has said that such intimidating tactics threaten regional peace and stability.
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Carson City (US), January 24 (AP): One of the keys to President Joe Biden's USD 2 trillion clean energy plan could be a mineral that lies in a salt flat above a prehistoric volcano just south of the Oregon-