Beijing, December 4 (AP): China's Communist Party took American democracy to task on Saturday, sharply criticising a global democracy summit being hosted by President Joe Biden next week and extolling the v
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Banjul (Gambia), December 4 (AP): Lines of voters snaked around corners outside polling stations in Gambia's capital on Saturday as the nation holds a presidential election that for the first time in decade
Johannesburg, December 4 (AP): Dr Sikhulile Moyo was analysing COVID-19 samples in his lab in Botswana last week when he noticed they looked startlingly different from others. Within days, the world was abla
Washington, December 4 (IANS): The US President Joe Biden has signed a short-term funding bill that will keep the federal government running through February 18, 2022, avoiding a looming partial shutdown. &q
Seoul, December 4 (IANS): South Korea's daily coronavirus cases recorded an all-time high of 5,352 on Saturday, a day after the country announced tough restrictions for four weeks to control the spread of t
Washington, December (IANS): US President Joe Biden has unveiled stricter Covid-19 travel rules as the US confirmed a handful of cases of the Omicron variant from coast to coast. Biden said his plan "do
United Nations, December 3 (IANS): A nearly three-hour lockdown of the UN headquarters ended peacefully when an apparently mentally distraught mystery man holding a gun to his throat in front of the complex sur
Kuala Lumpur, December 3 (IANS): Malaysia has identified its first case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in the country, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said on Friday. The individual is a non-Malaysian
Harare, December 3 (IANS): Zimbabwean Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Constantino Chiwenga has confirmed the presence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in the country. He has urged the
Washington, December 3 (IANS): The US House of Representatives has approved a short-term spending Bill that would keep federal agencies running through February, averting a partial shutdown just a day before go
Seoul, December 3 (IANS): The National Assembly passed the 2022 government Budget Friday, a record high amount of 607.7 trillion won (US$516.3 billion) to cope with the economic fallout of the Covid pandemic an
Seoul 3, December 3 (IANS): South Korea's daily coronavirus cases fell below 5,000 on Friday, but the number of critically ill patients hit yet another record high as the country prepares to limit private g
Paris, Dec 3 (IANS) No data shows that the Omicron variant would be more resistant to Covid-19 vaccines, French Prime Minister Jean Castex has said in Angouleme, southwest France. "No consolidated data
Kuwait City, December 3 (IANS): Kuwait's armed forces remain prepared for any emergency, Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah has said. He made the remarks during a visit to the l
Jerusalem, December 3 (IANS): The Israeli Ministry of Health on Thursday reported a third case of the Covid-19 variant Omicron in the country. This is an Israeli vaccinated with three Pfizer shots, who recen
New York, December 3 (IANS): After the first US case of the Omicron Covid-19 variant was reported in California, the federal government is set to announce on Thursday a bunch of measures to help counter the vir
New York, December 2 (IANS): US President Joe Biden announced a country-wide plan to administer Covid vaccine booster doses for all adults, keep schools and workplaces open, expand free-at-home testing, new pro
Copenhagen, December 2 (AP): At least 50 people in and around Norway's capital have been infected with the omicron coronavirus variant and the cases are connected to a Norwegian company's Christmas part
Seoul, December 2 (IANS): South Korea and the US agreed on Thursday to update their joint wartime contingency plans to deter North Korea's evolving nuclear and missile threats, the two sides said, in a sign
Mogadishu, Dec 2 (IANS) Somali security forces said on Thursday they have killed 12 senior fighters of al-Shabab, a terror group, in a sting operation conducted in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. The Nati
