Washington, April 17 (AP): The US Justice Department made a wrong and dangerous argument in seeking to defend former President Donald Trump against a former advice columnist's claim that he defamed her when
Tehran, April 17 (AP): Iran named a suspect Saturday in the attack on its Natanz nuclear facility that damaged centrifuges there, saying he had fled the country hours before the sabotage happened.
While the
Havana, April 17 (AP): Raul Castro said he is stepping down as Cuban Communist Party leader, leaving the island without a Castro guiding affairs for the first time in more than six decades and handing control o
Moscow, April 17 (AP): An American astronaut and two Russians have returned to Earth after six months aboard the International Space Station.
A Soyuz space capsule carrying NASA's Kate Rubins and Russian
Yangon, April 17 (AP): Myanmar's junta on Saturday announced it pardoned and released more than 23,000 prisoners to mark the traditional Thingyan New Year holiday, but it wasn't immediately clear if the
Manila, April 17 (AP): Philippine troops killed a suspected Egyptian would-be suicide bomber and two local Abu Sayyaf militants in what military officials said Saturday was a setback that would make it harder f
Washington, April 16 (IANS): The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 138.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.98 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
In its latest up
Washington, April 16 (IANS): US President Joe Biden has called for de-escalating the ongoing tensions with Moscow after his administration launched diplomatic and financial offensives against Russian officials
Seoul, April 16 (IANS): North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited a mausoleum of his late grandfather and the country's founder, Kim Il-sung, on the occasion of the latter's birth anniversary, state media
Washington, April 16 (IANS): At least eight people were killed during a shooting incident that took place at a FedEx facility in the US city of Indianapolis, police said on Friday, adding there were multiple ot
Jakarta, April 15 (IANS): Indonesian police on Thursday shot dead a man allegedly linked to last month's suicide bombing outside a church in South Sulawesi province, a spokesman said.
Members of the poli
Baghdad, April 15 (AP): A powerful explosion rocked a market in east Baghdad on Thursday, killing one person and injuring 12 others, according to Iraq's military.
A police official said the blast in
Washington, April 15 (AP): The Biden administration on Thursday announced the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats and sanctions against nearly three dozen people and companies as it moved to hold the Kremlin acco
KABUL, APRIL 15 (IANS): In a sympathetic admission of an earlier mistake, Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of Afghanistan's High Council of National Reconciliation, on Thursday congratulated a journalist on a qu
Geneva, April 15 (AP): A top official from the World Health Organisation says Europe has surpassed 1 million deaths from COVID-19 and the situation remains serious, with about 1.6 million new cases reported eac
Islamabad, April 15 (AP): The Biden administration's surprise announcement of an unconditional troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by September 11 appears to strip the Taliban and the Afghan government of con
Washington, April 15 (AP): Vaccine passports," or vaccine certificates, are documents that show you were vaccinated against COVID-19 or recently tested negative for the virus. They could help you get into
Washington, April 15 (PTI): Declaring that the war in Afghanistan was never meant to be a "multigenerational undertaking," President Joe Biden has announced that all US troops would be withdrawn from
Washington, April 15 (PTI): The erosion of democracy is a very real problem in many parts of the world, CIA Director William Burns has told US lawmakers, explaining that this trend could be reversed if the peop
Washington, April 15 (AP): The Biden administration is preparing to announce sanctions in response to a massive Russian hacking campaign that breached vital federal agencies, as well as for election interferenc