London, Jun 2 (AP) A top official at the World Health Organization said the UN health agency assumes the coronavirus outbreak in North Korea is getting worse, not better, despite the secretive country's rec
Kyiv, Jun 2 (AP) Britain pledged Thursday to send sophisticated medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine, joining the United States and Germany in equipping the embattled nation with advanced weapons for shooting
Bangkok, Jun 2 (AP) The United Nations' humanitarian relief agency says the number of people displaced within strife-torn Myanmar has for the first time exceeded one million, with well over half the total l
Shanghai, June 1 (AP): Traffic, pedestrians and joggers reappeared on the streets of Shanghai on Wednesday as China's largest city began returning to normalcy amid the easing of a strict two-month COVID-19
Stockholm, June 1 (AP): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday warned that the Ukraine war is diverting attention away from climate change, while at the same time showcasing the world's suicidal
Beijing/Chengdu, June 1 (PTI): At least four people were killed and 14 others injured when a powerful earthquake of 6.1-magnitude on Wednesday struck Ya'an city in China's quake-prone southwestern Sichu
Washington, June 1 (AP): The Biden administration says it will send Ukraine a small number of high-tech, medium-range rocket systems, a critical weapon that Ukrainian leaders have been begging for as they strug
Ras Al-Khaimah (United Arab Emirates), June 1 (AP): In the dusty, northern-most sheikhdom of the United Arab Emirates, where labourers cycle by rustic tea shops, one of the world's largest yachts sits in a
Dubai, June 1 (AP): The death toll in a catastrophic collapse of a tower in southwestern Iran rose to 37 on Wednesday, officials said, as emergency workers pulled another body from the rubble over a week after
Osun, June 1 (AP): As health authorities in Europe and elsewhere roll out vaccines and drugs to stamp out the biggest monkeypox outbreak beyond Africa, some doctors acknowledge an ugly reality: The resources to
Bangkok, June 1 (AP): Myanmar's military government and its opponents traded accusations over a bomb that exploded on Tuesday in the middle of the country's largest city, Yangon, killing one and woundin
Colombo, June 1 (PTI): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's plan to introduce the 21st Amendment to the Constitution to empower Parliament over the executive president has met with resistance wi
The Hague, May 31 (AP) Representatives of a group of nations working together to investigate war crimes in Russia's invasion of Ukraine are meeting in The Hague amid ongoing calls for those responsible for
Islamabad, May 31 (PTI) Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has claimed that protesters in the Azadi March were carrying not only guns but also automatic weapons on the orders of ousted prime minister
Taipei, May 31 (AP) US Senator Tammy Duckworth on Tuesday reiterated America's support for Taiwan on her second visit in a year to the self-governing island claimed by China.
Duckworth, meeting with Taiw
New Delhi, May 31 (PTI): A team of experienced international and national mountain guides on Tuesday retrieved the black box of the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepal's mountainous Mustang district on Sun
Kramatorsk (Ukraine), May 30 (AP) The Russian-battered eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk appeared to be on the brink of becoming another Mariupol on Monday as services and aid have been cut and Moscow s
Barcelona, May 30 (AP) NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday that next month's summit in Madrid will be a historic opportunity to strengthen the alliance in the face of Russian aggression agai
Beijing, May 30 (PTI) Security situation in Afghanistan is a prerequisite for its development, China said on Monday as it highlighted the consensus at the recent Dushanbe meeting of the regional countries that
New Delhi, May 30 (PTI): Rescuers on Monday recovered 20 bodies from the wreckage site of the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepal's mountainous Mustang district on Sunday with 22 people on board, including