Seoul, September 15 (AP): The rival Koreas test-launched ballistic missiles hours apart from each other on Wednesday in a display of military assets that came amid a faltering diplomatic push to strip North Kor
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CANBERRA, SEPTEMBER 14 (IANS): Australia's biggest koala conservation organisation on Tuesday warned that the iconic marsupial is facing extinction. The Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) accused the fede
BEIJING, SEPTEMBER 14 (IANS): With the resurgence of the Delta variant of Covid-19 in China's Fujian province, the country has shut schools, called off events, and imposed travel restrictions to curb the sp
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 14 (IANS): Afghan women around the world are protesting the Taliban's new hijab diktat in schools by posting photos of themselves wearing colorful traditional dresses on social media, C
Houston, September 14 (AP): Hurricane Nicholas, now a tropical storm, made landfall along the Texas coast on Tuesday, bringing the threat of up to 20 inches of rainfall to parts of the Gulf Coast, including the
London, September 14 (PTI): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is mourning the death of his mother, professional painter Charlotte Johnson Wahl, who suddenly passed away at a hospital here. The 79-yea
GENEVA, SEPTEMBER 14 (IANS): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has named the climate change crisis as "the single greatest challenge to human rights of our era". I
KABUL, SEPEMBER 14 (IANS): At least 153 Afghan media outlets have stopped operations in 20 provinces following the Taliban takeover of the war-torn nation last month, a media report citing organisations support
WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 14 (IANS: Covid-19 pushed an additional 31 million people into extreme poverty in 2020 compared to 2019, according to a report that highlighted stark disparities caused by the pandemic wor
Bangkok, September 14 (AP): A court in Myanmar has agreed to change the venue for the trial of an Australian economist and adviser to ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on charges of violating the nation
Moscow, September 14 (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin is going into self-isolation because of coronavirus cases in his inner circle, the Kremlin said Tuesday, adding that he tested negative for COVID-19.
Tokyo, September 14 (AP): Senior diplomats from Japan, the United States and South Korea Tuesday called on North Korea to return to talks over its missile and nuclear development, a day after Pyongyang announce
Lagos, September 14 (AP): Nigeria is seeing one of its worst cholera outbreaks in years, with more than 2,300 people dying from suspected cases as Africa's most populous country struggles to deal with multi
LONDON, SEPTEMBER 14 (IANS): Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that her party intends to hold another legal referendum on independence from Britain by the end of 2023 if the Covid-19 pandemic i
Florida (US), September 14 (The Conversation): The land we now call Afghanistan has been a place of constant migration through its mountainous passes. Its linguistic, cultural and religious diversity is a resul
Washington, September 14 (PTI): US President Joe Biden will host the first-ever in-person Quad summit on September 24 that will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his Australian counterpart Scott Morr
UNITED NATIONS, SEPTEMBER 14 (IANS): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced the appointment of Jordan's Sima Sami Bahous as the new Executive Director of UN Women. Bahous, who has been Jorda
London, September 14 (PTI): Schoolchildren aged between 12 and 15 years will be offered a first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine starting next week, the UK government has announced after the country
GENEVA, SEPTEMBER 13 (IANS): Leading the appeal in Geneva for $606 million to support emergency aid for 11 million people in Afghanistan, Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, has said
Barcelona, September 13 (AP): Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hotspots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global e
