Lahore: Pakistan’s popular hill station Murree was declared a calamity-hit area on Saturday after at least 21 people, including nine children, froze to death...
MOSCOW: The former head of Kazakhstan’s counterintelligence and anti-terror agency has been arrested on charges of attempted government overthrow in the wake of violent...
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden forcefully blamed Donald Trump and his supporters Thursday for holding a "dagger at the throat of democracy" with election lies...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan plans to visit China early next month to further strengthen the all-weather bilateral ties and seek more investments...
Washington: COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy is not associated with complications such as preterm birth or smaller than normal weight of babies, according to a...
BEIJING: Hong Kong on Wednesday reimposed some of its toughest COVID-19 restrictions, banning flights from eight countries including India until January 21, in a...
DHAKA: Police have registered complaints over alleged desecration of three temples in Bangladesh as the members of the minority Hindu community staged protests demanding...
Beijing: At least 22 people were injured in a 5.5-magnitude earthquake that struck the county of Ninglang in southwest China’s Yunnan Province on Sunday,...
TAIPEI: Taiwan's president on Saturday urged China to curb its "military adventurism", with tensions between the two sides at their highest level in years.
Beijing...
The Omicron variant of coronavirus is largely resistant to antibodies from people who recover from COVID-19 infection, and those vaccinated with two doses of...
JERUSALEM: Israel's defence minister approved a raft of measures aimed at improving relations with the Palestinians on Wednesday following a rare meeting with Palestinian...
BEIJING: China has reported 206 new COVID-19 cases, including 158 domestically transmitted ones, in a sudden spike ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics which...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Monday lashed out at the Taliban regime in Afghanistan for its latest "retrogressive" move of banning women...
TEHRAN: A road accident in southwestern Iran killed at least 10 people on Saturday, Iranian media reported.
The official IRNA news agency said the accident...
US health regulators on Thursday authorized the second pill against COVID-19, providing another easy-to-use medication to battle the rising tide of omicron infections.
The Food...
DHAKA: At least 40 people died and over 150 others were injured early Friday after a packed three-storey ferry carrying around 800 passengers caught...
Russia’s Sputnik-V vaccine and its one-shot version Sputnik Light booster demonstrates high virus-neutralising activity (VNA) against the highly-contagious Omicron variant of COVID-19, providing a...
Islamabad: Pakistan, Turkey, and Malaysia will set up a joint television channel to promote media links among them, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad...
Moderna said Monday that a booster dose of its Covid-19 vaccine should offer protection against the rapidly spreading omicron variant.
Moderna said lab tests showed...
London: Glaciers in the Himalayas are melting at an “exceptional” rate because of global warming, threatening the water supply of millions of people in...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is rallying Muslim countries to help Afghanistan stave off an economic and humanitarian disaster while also cajoling the neighboring country's new Taliban...
KABUL: Afghanistan's finance ministry under the new Taliban government has prepared a draft national budget that, for the first time in two decades, is...