WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 11 (IANS): The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 107.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.35 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
Seoul, February 11 (AP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered tougher legal supervision to support his development plans and eradicate various economy-related unlawful acts, state media said Thursday, as
Islamabad, February 11 (PTI): Pakistan on Thursday conducted a successful training launch of a surface-to-surface cruise missile which can strike targets up to 450 kilometres, the Army said, the country's t
Yangon, February 11 (AP): Members of Myanmar's ethnic minorities marched through streets in traditional dress and floated on wooden long boats in a scenic lake Thursday to protest last week's coup, a si
Seoul, February 11 (AP): A growing number of governments are curbing diplomatic ties with Myanmar and increasing economic pressure on its military over the coup last week that erased the fragile democratic prog
KUALA LUMPUR, FEBRUARY 11 (IANS): Malaysia's GDP contracted 3.4 per cent year-on-year in the fourth quarter of last year, rendering a 5.6 per cent drop for 2020, the biggest decline since the last 23 years,
UNITED NATIONS, FEBRUARY 11 (IANS): A top UN official said the threat to international peace and security posed by the Islamic State (IS) terror group is "on the rise again", despite its fall in both
Washington, February 11 (PTI): The United States Senate began the impeachment trial of Donald Trump on Wednesday with impeachment managers from the Democrats-controlled House of Representatives making a strong
Washington, February 11 (PTI): US President Joe Biden has announced a series of sanctions on the military leaders of Myanmar in response to their recent action to overthrow a democratically elected leadership i
Jakarta, February 10 (AP): A strong undersea earthquake shook western Indonesia on Wednesday, but no injuries were immediately reported.
The US Geological Survey said the magnitude 6.2 quake struck at a dept
Washington, February 10 (AP): Opening arguments will begin Wednesday in Donald Trump's impeachment trial after an emotional first day that wrenched senators and the nation back to the deadly January 6 attac
Kathmandu, February 10 (PTI): Chairperson of the Nepal Communist Party's splinter faction Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' on Wednesday warned that a million people would be forced to picket Singha Du
Tehran, February 10 (AP): Iran's President Hassan Rouhani urged the West on Wednesday to restore the 2015 nuclear deal as the nation marked the anniversary of the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution on wh
Wuhan, February 10 (AP): A World Health Organisation team is leaving China on Wednesday after gaining some new insights into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic that has now killed more than 2.3 million peo
Dubai, February 10 (AP): Yemen's Houthi rebels on Wednesday targeted Abha International Airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia, causing a civilian plane on the tarmac to catch fire, the kingdom's sta
Beijing, February 10 (PTI): The frontline troops of China and India at the south and north banks of the Pangong Lake in eastern Ladakh started synchronised and organised disengagement from Wednesday, the Chines
London, February 10 (PTI): Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla have received their first of two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, the royal couple's Clarence House office said on Wednesday.
Char
CAIRO, FEBRUARY 10 (IANS): Leaders of a dozen Palestinian factions, including the two main rivals Fatah and Hamas, have concluded a two-day reconciliation dialogue in Egypt and agreed to cooperate to in holding
Dhaka, February 10 (PTI): A special anti-terrorism tribunal in Bangladesh on Wednesday sentenced to death eight Islamic militants, including a sacked military officer, for killing a publisher of books on secula
ISLAMABAD, FEBRUARY 10 (IANS): The Pakistan Supreme Court on Wednesday barred the execution of three mentally-ill convicts on death row, saying that as it does not "meet the ends of justice".
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