NEW DELHI, JULY 2 (IANS): One of the most galling atrocities committed against Uighur women in the camps is the Chinese Communist Partys (CCP) forced sterilisation campaign.
In multiple reports, The Washingt
NAY PYI TAW, JULY 2 (IANS): The Myanmar government has imposed a stay-at-home order in nine townships across the Bago and Mandalay regions due to the recent spike of Covid-19 infections.
The stay-at-home ord
KOLKATA, JULY 2 (IANS): Students For Free Tibet (SFT), a leading hardline Tibetan group, has tied up to pro-democracy groups in Myanmar, extending their anti-China campaign to new areas in Asia.
SFT's Ca
ANKARA, JULY 2 (IANS): Turkish women held protests in cities across the country to denounce the country's withdrawal from an international treaty designated to combat gender violence.
Turkey on Thursday
ISLAMABAD, JULY 2 (IANS): In a move that could attract serious sanctions on Pakistan and Turkey and would certainly impact bilateral relations, the US has added both the countries into its Child Soldiers Preven
Dhaka, July 2 (PTI): Bangladesh has recorded its highest single-day virus-related deaths at 143 on Thursday, according to media reports on Friday.
The Directorate General of Health Services, in its medical b
Kabul, July 2 (AP): After nearly 20 years, the US military left Bagram Airfield, the epicentre of its war to oust the Taliban and hunt down the al Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, tw
Beijing, July 2 (AP): As the World Health Organization draws up plans for the next phase of its probe of how the coronavirus pandemic started, an increasing number of scientists say the U.N. agency it isn't
Beijing, July 2 (AP): China on Friday rejected US accusations it is failing to stop human trafficking and said Washington has no right to criticise due to its history of racial discrimination.
Beijing was am
Islamabad, July 2 (IANS): In a bold decision, Pakistan has decided and announced that it will not provide any bases on its soil to the US to operate from, after its troops exit Afghanistan.
The decision came
Cape Canaveral (US), July 2 (AP): Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson is aiming to beat fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos into space by nine days.
Branson's company announced Thursday evening that its next
Ljubljana, July 2 (IANS): Slovenia has formally taken over the six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) , with a focus on tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery, enhancing resilience
New York, July 2 (AP): Donald Trump's company and its longtime finance chief were charged Thursday in what prosecutors called a sweeping and audacious tax fraud scheme in which the executive collected more
Manila, July 2 (IANS): Evacuations of families living close to an island volcano in the Philippines' Batangas province were underway on Friday, a day after phreatomagmatic eruptions sent "a dark grayis
Canberra, July 2 (IANS): Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday described the country's coronavirus vaccine rollout as a "phenomenal failure of public administration".
Washington, July 1 (AP): The Biden administration on Thursday designated 17 countries as not doing enough to combat human trafficking and warned them of potential US sanctions.
The administration also called
Kabul, July 1 (IANS): A total of 33 militants were killed in Afghan airstrikes that struck Taliban gatherings in Kaldar and Shortepa districts of Balkh province, an army spokesman said on Thursday.
Acting on
Islamabad, July 1 (PTI): Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said Pakistan accepts the "Chinese version" of the treatment of Uighurs, a minority Muslim ethnic group, in China's restive Xinjiang
Geneva, July 1 (AP): The World Health Organisation said Thursday that any COVID-19 vaccines it has authorised for emergency use should be recognised by countries as they open up their borders to inoculated trav
Bangkok, July 1 (AP): A court in Myanmar on Thursday extended the pretrial detention of Danny Fenster, a US journalist employed by an online news magazine in the military-led Southeast Asian nation who was arre