Colombo, February 4 (AP): Sri Lanka's president said Thursday that he has received the final report of an inquiry commission investigating the 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attacks and vowed he will not allow any
Wuhan (China), February 4 (AP): One of the World Health Organisation investigators looking for clues into the origin of the coronavirus in the central Chinese city of Wuhan said that the Chinese side has provid
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 4 (IANS): Leading Senators from the US, prominent politicians from the rest of the world and various global human rights groups have expressed shock and anger, calling for a UN-led investiga
TEHRAN, FEBRUARY 4 (IANS): A high-ranking Iraqi delegation headed by Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein met Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and other senior officials in Tehran to discuss the expansion of bilateral
Seoul, February 4 (AP): The South Korean and US presidents agreed on the need for a comprehensive strategy on North Korea as they push to work together to achieve denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, offic
Yangon, February 4 (AP): Myanmar's new military government has blocked access to Facebook as resistance to Monday's coup surged amid calls for civil disobedience to protest the ousting of the elected ci
Washington, February 4 (AP): President Joe Biden encouraged Democratic lawmakers to act fast on his USD 1.9 trillion COVID rescue plan but also signaled he's open to changes, including limiting the proposed
Washington, February 3 (PTI): The US on Wednesday extended by five years the last remaining nuclear arms pact with Russia on limiting their stockpiles of atomic weapons, saying the move is the beginning of the
Washington, February 3 (PTI): An Indian-American group on Wednesday urged the FBI to investigate the recent desecration of the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the US state of California as a hate crime and demanded
Jakarta, February 3 (AP): Medical workers across Myanmar began a civil disobedience protest against Monday's coup, wearing red ribbons and declaring they won't work for the new military government.
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Nay Pyi Taw, February 3 (IANS): Police in Myanmar have filed several charges against elected civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi following Monday's military coup.
She has been remanded in custody until Febr
Washington, February 3 (IANS): The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 103.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.25 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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Yangon, February 3 (IANS): The Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services announced formation of a new 11-membered State Administration Council under Section 419 of Constitution late on Tuesday.
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Wuhan, February 3 (AP): World Health Organization investigators on Wednesday visited a research centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus.
Bangkok, February 3 (AP): A day after Myanmar's military pulled off a well-choreographed coup, the country's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, finds herself right back where she was just over a decade
Yangon, February 3 (AP): Scores of people in Myanmar's largest city honked car horns and banged on pots and pans Tuesday in the first known public resistance to the coup led a day earlier by the country'
Bangkok, February 3 (AP): This week, the military upended years of quasi-democratic rule in Myanmar, with soldiers taking control of the country in a carefully orchestrated coup. The military said the seizure o
United Nations, February 2 (IANS): Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said that freedom of expression is a fundamental right as a general enunciation of a principle in r
Islamabad, February 2 (IANS): The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday ordered immediate release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the prime accused in the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, from his death c
Yangon, February 2 (AP): Hundreds of members of Myanmar's Parliament were under house arrest Tuesday, confined to their government housing complex and guarded by soldiers a day after the military seized pow