Moscow, December 1 (AP): Russia warned Wednesday that a number of US diplomats will have to leave Russia before the end of next month, the latest salvo in a diplomatic tug-of-war between Moscow and Washington.
Beijing, December 1 (AP): China lashed out at Shinzo Abe Wednesday after the former Japanese prime minister warned of the serious security and economic consequences of any Chinese military action against the se
Tokyo, December 1 (AP): Japan has asked international airlines to stop taking new reservations for all flights arriving in Japan until the end of December as the country further tightens its border controls aga
Riga (Latvia), December 1 (AP): Barely 3 months after the chaotic US-run troop evacuation from Afghanistan, NATO foreign ministers met on Wednesday to debate a rapidly compiled report on the lessons to be learn
Santiago, December 1 (IANS): The number of people suffering from hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) rose by 13.8 million in 2020, or by 2 per cent points, to reach 59.7 million people, according to
Oxford Township (US), December 1 (AP): A 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at his Michigan high school, killing three students, including a 16-year-old boy who died in a deputy's patrol car on the way to a
New Delhi, November 30 (IANS): In apparently the first ever instance of material with "top secret" statements made by a Chinese head of state getting leaked into the public domain -- new documents cal
Moscow, November 30 (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday sternly warned NATO against deploying its troops and weapons to Ukraine, saying it represents a red line for Russia and would trigger a stro
Copenhagen, November 30 (AP): Sweden's first female prime minister, Magdalena Andersson, on Tuesday presented her one-party centre-left minority government with only a few changes compared to the previous C
Kathmandu, November 30 (PTI): Nepal's main opposition CPN-UML on Tuesday overwhelmingly re-elected former prime minister K P Sharma Oli as the chairman of the country's largest Communist Party for the s
Kabul, November 30 (AP): Taliban fighters have summarily killed or forcibly disappeared more than 100 former police and intelligence officers since taking power in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said in a repo
Bangkok, November 30 (AP): A court in Myanmar postponed its verdict on Tuesday in the trial of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to allow testimony from an additional witness.
The court agreed with a defence mo
San Juan, November 30 (AP): Barbados stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and became a republic for the first time in history.
Several
Tehran, November 30 (AP): Iran struck a maximalist tone Tuesday after just one day of restarted talks in Vienna over its tattered nuclear deal, suggesting everything discussed in previous rounds of diplomacy co
London, November 30 (AP): The emergence of the new omicron variant and the world's desperate and likely futile attempts to keep it at bay are reminders of what scientists have warned for months: The coronav
Geneva, November 29 (AP): The World Health Organization says it could still take some time to get a full picture of the threat posed by omicron, a new variant of the coronavirus as scientists worldwide scramble
Brussels, November 29 (AP): Nations around the world sought Monday to keep the new omicron variant at bay with travel bans and further restrictions, even as it remains unclear what it means for the COVID-19 pan
Jerusalem, November 29 (IANS): Israeli archaeologists have unearthed the relics of a Hellenistic (Greek culture) farm in the heart of the coastal city of Tel Aviv, dated to about 2,150 years ago, the Israel Ant
Canberra, November 29 (IANS): Indigenous groups from around Australia will shape the country's cultural heritage protection systems under a new agreement.
The government on Monday announced a partnership
Vienna, November 29 (AP): Negotiators gathered in Vienna on Monday to resume talks over reviving Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, with hopes of quick progress muted after the arrival of a hard-li