Pakistan reports nine new cases of polio amid eradication drive
ISLAMABAD: In a major blow to Pakistan’s polio eradication campaign, nine new cases of the crippling disease have been reported from the country
ISLAMABAD: In a major blow to Pakistan’s polio eradication campaign, nine new cases of the crippling disease have been reported from the country
WASHINGTON: Attorney General William Barr drew sharp condemnation Thursday for comparing lockdown orders during the coronavirus pandemic to slavery. I
BEIJING: China’s ByteDance has decided to place the headquarters of its popular video platform app TikTok in the US in order to escape President
WASHINGTON: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has pledged to rejoin the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, if elected to power in t
LONDON: An American lawyer told an extradition hearing in Britain for Julian Assange on Monday that the WikiLeaks founder faces decades in prison if h
WASHINGTON: Public health officials were already warning Americans about the need to prepare for the coronavirus threat in early February when Preside
LONDON: Facebook may be forced to stop sending data about its European users to the US, in the first major fallout from a recent court ruling that fou
UNITED NATIONS: The world is getting closer to passing a temperature limit set by global leaders five years ago and may exceed it in the next decade o
COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan lawmaker from the ruling party, who was elected to Parliament while serving a death sentence in a murder case, was on Monday all
MOSCOW: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday left Moscow for Iran where he will meet his Iranian counterpart and discuss bilateral defence ties,
MOSCOW: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday congratulated the government and people of Russia for successfully controlling the coronavirus outbre
MOSCOW: India and Russia have finalised a major deal for manufacturing AK-47 203 rifles in India during Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s ongoing
TAIPEI: Ethnic Mongolians, including students and parents, in China’s Inner Mongolia region are demonstrating their anger in rare public protests ag
Beijing, Sep 1 (AP) Children returned to school Tuesday in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic that
ABU DHABI: A Star of David-adorned El Al plane flew from Israel to the United Arab Emirates on Monday, carrying a high-ranking American and Israeli de
PARIS: Not all French classrooms can safely reopen Tuesday, the education minister acknowledged Sunday, amid a persistent rise in coronavirus infectio
VILLENEUVE-LA-GARENNE: French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday urged European neighbors to better coordinate cross-border virus restrictions as inf
WASHINGTON: Democratic Party’s Indian-origin vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris will deliver a speech on Thursday to counter President Do
PORTLAND: Protesters in Portland repeatedly set fire late Monday night to a police union headquarters building and were repelled by officers spraying
GENEVA: The World Health Organization says using plasma from the recovered to treat COVID-19 is still considered an “experimental” therapy and tha