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
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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
BANGKOK, August 21 (Reuters): Myanmar has locked down the state capital of conflict-torn Rakhine state after an outbreak of a coronavirus strain that officials said was more infectious than that previously
DIJON, France, August 21 (Reuters): In exactly two weeks, Alain Cocq says he will begin his own slow and agonising death by refusing the round-the-clock medical care that is keeping him alive. Before th
WILMINGTON, Del., August 21 (Reuters): Joe Biden accepted the Democratic Party nomination for the White House on Thursday, vowing to heal a United States battered by a deadly pandemic and divided by four years
KAMPALA/NAIROBI, August 20 (Reuters): Africa is beginning to slowly "bend the curve" of COVID-19 infections as measures like mask-wearing and social distancing slow down the spread of the pandemi
PARIS, August 20 (Reuters): Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Emmanuel Macron met behind the walls of a medieval island fortress in the Mediterranean on Thursday to chart the next steps for a pa
LONDON, August 20 (Reuters): Singing is no more risky than speaking when it comes to the possibility of spreading the new coronavirus, British scientists said on Thursday, adding that volume is the most im
Washington, August 20 (Reuters): A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit by President Donald Trump that sought to block enforcement of a grand jury subpoena for eight years of his personal and corporate ta
WASHINGTON, August 20 (Reuters): Steve Bannon, an architect of President Donald Trump's 2016 election victory, has been charged with fundraising fraud in a campaign to help Trump build his signatu
BERLIN, August 20 (Reuters): Swedish activist Greta Thunberg urged German Chancellor Angela Merkel "to be brave enough to think long-term" in a meeting on Thursday where they discussed the climat
UNITED NATIONS, AUGUST 20 (IANS): Top UN officials honoured humanitarian workers overcoming "huge challenges" to save and improve the lives of millions of women, men and children hit hard by the Covid
WARSAW, August 20 (Reuters): Poland's Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz has resigned, the ministry said on Thursday, the second ministerial resignation in a week as Poland tries to play a leading role
