United Nations, August 22 (IANS): A UN spokesman said that the world body was continuing with the distribution of food, medical protective gear and shelter kits in support of the recovery effort after the Augus
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Islamabad, August 22 (IANS): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved a project to introduce specialised education in 400 higher secondary schools of the country, it was reported on Saturday. Presidin
Washington, August 22 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 22.8 million, while the deaths have increased to over 797,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Saturda
GENEVA, August 21 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus crisis can be over in less than two years, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday. The Spanish flu that hit in 1
NAIROBI, August 21 (Reuters): Purity Amleset Lakara has spent the year capturing armed poachers, running from an aggressive buffalo, and relaxing around a campfire reading "A Day Before my Wedding&quo
WASHINGTON, August 21 (Reuters): The United States is prepared to block Russia and China from any attempts to violate sanctions on Iran, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday, one day after Wa
CALAIS, France, August 21 (Reuters): Standing in front of the remains of dozens of inflatable craft in the backyard of a police station, Captain Eric Binet has a message for migrants considering the sea cr
ISTANBUL, August 21 (Reuters): Turkey announced its biggest ever natural gas discovery on Friday, a 320 billion cubic metre (11.3 trillion cubic feet) Black Sea field which President Tayyip Erdogan said wa
Reuters John Marshall keeps a picture of Breonna Taylor in his office at the headquarters of Kentucky's largest school district, a visual reminder, he says, of the need for curriculum changes that better
ISLAMABAD, AUGUST 21 (IANS): Pakistan's Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Aminul Haque has raised serious questions and reservations over the alleged "biased" polic
OMSK, Russia, August 21 (Reuters): The wife of stricken Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny appealed to President Vladimir Putin on Friday to allow the opposition politician to be flown to Germany for urgent med
KABUL, AUGUST 21 (IANS): Taliban militants have shut down a health clinic in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, it was reported on Friday. In a letter issued to the doctors and staff, the Taliban warned no
BRUSSELS/LONDON, August 21 (Reuters): Britain and the European Union made scant progress towards a deal on future ties in talks this week, and their chief negotiators blamed each other for the stalemate as
ANKARA, August 21 (Reuters): Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan reconverted the historic Chora church, one of Istanbul's most celebrated Byzantine buildings, into a mosque on Friday, a month after openin
TRIPOLI, August 21 (Reuters): Libya's Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), which is internationally recognised but controls only the western part of the country, announced a ceasefire on
MINSK, August 21 (Reuters): Two leading members of a newly formed opposition council in Belarus were questioned on Friday in a criminal case that accuses the body of trying to seize power from President Al
SEOUL, August 21 (Reuters): South Korea's battle to contain a new outbreak of the coronavirus has been complicated by a political and religious fight between President Moon Jae-in's administration
MANILA, August 21 (Reuters): The Philippines has lodged a diplomatic protest over what it said was China's illegal confiscation of fish aggregating devices from Filipino fisherman in a disputed lagoon
DHAKA, August 21 (Reuters): On the third anniversary of a mass exodus of Rohingya to Bangladesh, prospects look bleak for about 1 million members of the Muslim minority from Myanmar living in bamboo and pl
WASHINGTON, August 21 (Reuters): In a warm shallow sea about 240 million years ago in what is now southwestern China, a large dolphin-like marine reptile attacked and swallowed an almost equally big lizard
