ISLAMBAD, FEBRUARY 27 (IANS): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has renewed his open offer for dialogue to resolve all outstanding issues with India. Khan gave his statement welcoming the ceasefire recent
LAGOS, FEBRUARY 27 (IANS): Scores of students and staff abducted about a week ago from a boarding school in Niger state have been freed, said a Spokesperson of the state Governor on Saturday.
Mary Noel-Berje
Yangon, February 27 (AP): Police in Myanmar escalated their crackdown on demonstrators against this month's military takeover, deploying early and in force on Saturday as protesters sought to assemble
KABUL, FEBRUARY 27 (IANS): Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday said the international community has kept the country's citizens away from their fundamental rights of peace during the last four de
Islamabad, February 27 (AP): Militant attacks are on the rise in Pakistan amid a growing religiosity that has brought greater intolerance, prompting one expert to voice concern the country could be overwhelmed
United Nations, February 27 (IANS): In a dramatic show of defiance Myanmar's Permanent Representative Kyaw Moe Tun has denounced his country's military regime before the General Assembly and declared he
Tehran, February 27 (IANS): Iran will keep supporting the Syrian government in the fight against terrorism, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a telephone conversation with the Syrian Foreign
New York, February 27 (IANS): US regulators are working "rapidly" to finalise emergency use authorisation for a Johnson & Johnson vaccine which is on track to become America's third shot again
Washington, February 27 (IANS): The total number of global Covid-19 cases has topped 113 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.51 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
In its lat
Washington February 27 (AP): Saudi Arabia's crown prince likely approved an operation to kill or capture a US-based journalist inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, according to a newly declassified US in
WASHINGTON, February 27 (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that Iran should view his decision to authorize U.S. airstrikes in Syria as a warning that it can expect consequences for its support of mili
Washington, February 26 (AP): The nation is poised to get a third vaccine against COVID-19, but because at first glance the Johnson and Johnson shot may not be seen as equal to other options, health officials a
Jerusalem, February 26 (IANS): The number of people vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus in Israel has reached 4,649,709, the state's Ministry of Health said on Friday.
Israel has thus vaccinated about
Moscow, February 26 (AP): A group of Russian diplomats and their family members returned to Russia from North Korea on a hand-pushed rail trolley on Thursday because the coronavirus pandemic has halted all pass
Beijing, February 26 (PTI): China on Friday expressed support to Sri Lanka at the UNHRC as it faced a resolution expressing serious concern over the rights situation in the island nation, saying Beijing was opp
Yangon, February 26 (AP): Myanmar security forces cracked down on anti-coup protesters in the country's second-largest city on Friday, injuring at least three people, two of whom were shot in the chest by r
Baghdad, February 26 (AP): A US airstrike in Syria targeted facilities belonging to a powerful Iranian-backed Iraqi armed group, killing one of their militiamen and wounding a number of others, an Iraqi mi
United Nations, February 26 (AP): The newest pledges by countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions are falling far short of what's needed to limit global warming to what the Paris climate accord seeks, a new
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 26 (IANS): US President Joe Biden spoke to King Salman of Saudi Arabia over the phone hours ahead of a new report was set to be made public in the sensational killing of acclaimed journalist
LAGOS, FEBRUARY 26 (IANS): Unidentified gunmen on Friday abducted scores of students after storming an all-girl school in Nigeria, an official said.
Abubakar Dauran, Zamfara State Commissioner of Security an