Stockholm: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday warned that the Ukraine war is diverting attention away from climate change, while at the same time...
Washington: The Biden administration says it will send Ukraine a small number of high-tech, medium-range rocket systems, a critical weapon that Ukrainian leaders have...
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has claimed that protesters in the Azadi March were carrying not only guns but also automatic weapons on...
BEIJING: The world's biggest nation is about to shrink. China accounts for more than one sixth of the world's population.
Yet after four extraordinary decades...
London: The World Health Organisation's top monkeypox expert said she doesn't expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic,...
WASHINGTON: The United States expressed concern on Saturday over China's "efforts to restrict and manipulate" the UN's Human Rights chief's visit to the Xinjiang...
Washington: During the COVID-19 pandemic, India and the US played a critical role in supporting each other, New Delhi's top envoy in Washington Taranjit...
Islamabad: A former chief justice of the Supreme Court, a retired army general and a leading businessman persuaded ousted Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan...
COLOMBO: As the ongoing anti-government protest demanding the resignation of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the worst economic crisis entered its 50th day,...
KRAMATORSK: Russia pressed its onslaught on eastern Ukraine Saturday, saying it had captured the strategic town of Lyman and had successfully tested hypersonic missiles...
COLOMBO: India sent 15,000 litres of kerosene to Sri Lanka on Saturday to help 700 fisherfolk and power ferry services in the Tamil-dominated Jaffna...
Beijing: The top UN human rights official said Saturday that she raised concerns with Chinese officials about the impact of the broad application of...
Kyiv: Russian forces on Friday pounded the last Ukrainian strongholds in a separatist-controlled eastern province of Ukraine, including a city where authorities said 1,500...
Islamabad: Ousted prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan on Thursday gave a six-day deadline to the Shehbaz Sharif government for dissolving provincial assemblies and...
HONIARA: China has "no intention at all" to build a military base in the Solomon Islands, foreign minister Wang Yi said Thursday, dismissing speculation...
Islamabad: The Pakistan government on Wednesday struck a deal with a defiant former prime minister Imran Khan to peacefully hold his party's "Azadi March"...
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other senior officials bear responsibility for a culture of rule-breaking that resulted in several parties that breached...
DAVOS: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday said his country will not give up its land to end Russia's war.
Speaking by video link at...
KYIV: Ukraine's president said Wednesday that Russia must pull back to its pre-war positions as a first step before diplomatic talks, a negotiating line...
Davos: The war in Ukraine has exacerbated food insecurity worldwide due to precarious supply chains, increased fertiliser prices and blocked grain exports, leaders said...
LONDON: The World Health Organization does not believe the outbreak of monkeypox outside of Africa requires mass vaccinations as measures like good hygiene and...
CAMBRIDGE: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that the assassination of his father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was the “single biggest learning...