Yangon, February 17 (AP): Demonstrators in Myanmar gathered Wednesday in their largest numbers so far to protest the military's seizure of power, even after a UN human rights expert warned that troops being
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LAGOS, FEBRUARY 17 (IANS): Unidentified gunmen stormed a secondary school in north-central Nigeria on Wednesday and abducted some students, security sources said. The Government Science College, located in K
Johannesburg, February 17 (PTI): The head of a South African inquiry commission into the alleged state corruption has said he would seek former president Jacob Zuma to be held in contempt of court for his persi-
Washington, February 17 (AP): The Biden administration faces a conundrum as it rethinks the positioning of military forces around the world: How to focus more on China and Russia without retreating from longsta
Washington, February 17 (AP): Four weeks into his presidency, Joe Biden says he's still getting used to the trappings of the office. Biden offered a frank description of what it's like to live at 160
Washington, February 17 (IANS): The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 109.4 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.41 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In it
Seoul, February 17 (IANS): North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's wife Ri Sol-ju has made her appearance in public for the first time in more than a year as she attended a concert commemorating the birthday of l
Washington, February 17 (AP): The House Homeland Security chairman accused Donald Trump in a federal lawsuit Tuesday of inciting the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol and conspiring with his lawyer and extr
Wellington, February 17 (AP) A coronavirus outbreak in New Zealand grew by two cases Wednesday to five in total as lawmakers considered whether to extend a lockdown in Auckland. The nation's largest city
Washington, February 16 (AP): A Democratic congressman accused Donald Trump in a federal lawsuit on Tuesday of inciting the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol and of conspiring with his lawyer and extremist
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 16 (IANS): The Myanmar diaspora has gone global in their protests against the military coup in their homeland by staging demonstrations in countries like Japan, Taiwan, India and Thailand.
GENEVA, FEBRUARY 16 (IANS): Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreed by consensus to appoint Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former finance minister of Nigeria, as the next director-general, said the WTO in
BEIJING, FEBRUARY 16 (IANS): The leader of a multi-million dollar scam that passed off saline solution and mineral water as Covid-19 vaccines has been arrested in China. The man, identified as Kong, had rese
GENEVA, FEBRUARY 16 (IANS): The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the international expert team on the Covid-19 origin-tracing mission in Wuhan was "independent" and had no affiliation.
KABUL, FEBRUARY 16 (IANS): The Afghan National Army commandos have freed 42 people from a Taliban detention centre in Baghlan province, the country's Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. "During a spec-
Herat (Afghanistan), February 16 (AP): Investigators began sifting through the ruins of a massive fire that destroyed hundreds of fuel tankers parked at a major crossing at the Afghanistan-Iran border, the gove
Dhaka, February 16 (PTI): A special anti-terrorism tribunal on Tuesday sentenced five members of a banned Islamist militant group, including a fugitive army major, to death and a sixth man to life in prison for-
Seoul, February 16 (AP): North Korean hackers attempted to steal information about coronavirus vaccines and treatments, South Korea's intelligence service said on Tuesday, but it denied a lawmaker'
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 16 (IANS): The United Nations said on Tuesday that lack of proper infrastructure planning is hurting Covid-19 recovery, climate action and sustainable development goals (SDGs). In a new pu
Canberra, February 16 (AP): Australia's government said on Tuesday it will amend draft laws that would make Google and Facebook pay for news to clarify that publishers would be paid in lump sums rather than
