GENEVA: The number of new coronavirus cases reported globally dropped by 16 per cent last week, marking a month-long decline in COVID-19 infections, according...
PESHWAR: Pakistani authorities have set up a joint committee to decide on the handing over of an over 100-year-old gurdwara in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province...
GENEVA: The UN refugee agency said Monday that more than 500,000 people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded the country last week.
UN High Commissioner...
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin met Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Kremlin on Thursday in his first face-to-face talks since the start...
Kyiv: Ukraine’s top security official Oleksiy Danilov said on Wednesday that Ukraine would impose a state of emergency on all of its territory, apart...
Washington: Strongly condemning President Vladimir Putin's decision to recognise the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics as independent, US Secretary of State Tony Blinken...
MUNICH: Dismissing the notion that the Quad is an Asian NATO, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that there are "interested parties" who...
Mild- to moderate-intensity exercise for 90 minutes after getting a flu or COVID-19 vaccine may boost the levels of antibodies in the body, according...
US health regulators on Friday authorised a new antibody drug that targets the Omicron variant, a key step in restocking the nation’s arsenal against...
Washington: India faces “very significant challenges”, in particular from China and its behaviour in the Line of Actual Control, the White House has said,...
BEIJING: Ahead of Quad Foreign Ministers' meeting on Friday, China said on Wednesday that it was opposed to "exclusive blocs" to create bloc confrontation...
GENEVA: The World Health Organization says coronavirus case counts fell 17% worldwide over the last week compared to the previous week, including a 50%...
The vaccine-induced protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection wanes within a few months, but protection against severe COVID-19 appears to be better maintained, according to a...
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has told the Chinese leadership that he expects Beijing to allow the world body's human rights chief to...
United Nations: The situation in Afghanistan remains precarious and uncertain nearly six months after the Taliban takeover, as the multiple political, socio-economic and humanitarian...
MOSCOW: The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia's sovereign wealth fund) announces that the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus has been granted full...
Islamabad: The International Monetary Fund has approved the completion of the sixth review of its stalled USD 6 billion programme for Pakistan, paving the...
The US military launched Patriot interceptor missiles during an attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels that targeted the United Arab Emirates.
DUBAI: The U.S. military launched...
US regulators are urging drugmaker Pfizer to apply for emergency authorization for a two-dose regimen of its Covid-19 vaccine for children 6 months to...
US health regulators on Monday granted full approval to Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine, a shot that’s already been given to tens of millions of Americans...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has decided to purchase petrol and diesel, 40,000 metric tonnes each, from the Indian Oil Corporation, according to a Cabinet note...