Yangon, April 3 (AP): Security forces in central Myanmar opened fire on anti-coup protesters on Saturday, killing at least two people according to local media. A human rights group said mounting violence since
Moscow/New Delhi, April 3 (IANS): As Twitter grapples with government scrutiny globally including in India over the presence of bad accounts, a Russian court has fined Twitter $116,778 for violating the country
San Francisco, April 3 (IANS): In a bizarre incident, a farm owner in the US was left in shock when a pressure vessel from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fell on his property in Washington State, leaving a "4-in
Buenos Aires, April 3 (IANS): Argentine President Alberto Fernandez announced on Saturday that he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Taking to Twitter, the President said that he took an antigen
Dhaka, April 3 (IANS): The Bangladesh government has decided to enforce a one-week lockdown from April 5 to control the new Covid-19 wave in the country, a Minister announced here on Saturday.
Bangladeshi Ro
Nay Pyi Taw, April 3 (IANS): Five people were killed across Myanmar on Saturday as the military continues to crack down on the ongoing protests against the February 1 coup.
Three people died when the armed f
London, April 3 (IANS): After more than 18 million people have received vaccinations with AstraZeneca's jab in the UK, the country's health regulator said seven people had died due to rare blood clots,
Yangon, April 2 (AP) Myanmar's wireless broadband internet services were shut down on Friday by order of the military, a local provider said, as protesters continued to defy the threat of lethal violence to
Jerusalem, April 2 (AP) Christians in the Holy Land are marking Good Friday this year amid signs the coronavirus crisis is winding down, with religious sites open to limited numbers of faithful but none of the
London, April 2 (AP): European nations' immunisation campaigns against COVID-19 are unacceptably slow and risk prolonging the pandemic, a senior World Health Organisation official said Thursday.
Dr Hans
HUALIEN COUNTY, Taiwan, April 2 (AP) — A train collided with an unmanned vehicle that had rolled down a hill Friday in eastern Taiwan, leaving at least 48 people dead and dozens injured in the island&rsqu
UNITED NATIONS, April 2 (AP) — The U.N. Security Council late Thursday strongly condemned the use of violence against peaceful protesters in Myanmar and the deaths of hundreds of civilians, but dropped th
YANGON, Myanmar, April 2 (AP) — Protesters in Myanmar on Thursday marked two months since the military seized power by again defying the threat of lethal violence and demonstrating against its toppling of
Geneva, April 1 (AP): The head of the World Trade Organization called Thursday for expanded capability in developing countries to manufacture vaccines, saying the gaping imbalance in access to coronavirus vacci
LONDON, APRIL 1 (IANS): A research team of international space scientists has found new evidence of an asteroid impact in Antarctica 430,000 years ago.
Extra-terrestrial particles recovered on the summit of
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 1 (IANS): The slow vaccination campaigns in many European countries are protracting the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Europe office of the World Health Organization (WHO).
WHO regi
SEOUL, APRIL 1 (IANS): South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said on Thursday that the country will adopt a "vaccine passport" this month to verify people's Covid-19 vaccination status via sm
Dakar (Senegal), April 1 (AP): Africa is unlikely to meet its targets for vaccinating the continent against COVID-19 if supply delays from a key Indian manufacturer continue, the director of the Africa Centers
London, April 1 (PTI): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's senior-most black adviser, Samuel Kasumu, has stepped down from his post as Special Adviser for Civil Society and Communities, it emerged on Thursday
DHARAMSALA, APRIL 1 (IANS): In a first, a US State Department report does not describe Tibet as an "inalienable part of China".
Reacting to the crucial development, the Central Tibetan Administrati