President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday welcomed efforts to resolve Ukraine’s conflict with Kremlin-backed separatists during a phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin ahead of a ceasef... Read more
American diplomatic staff have left their consulate in the Chinese city of Chengdu, after a 72-hour deadline expired. China ordered the closure in response to the US closing the Chinese cons... Read more
More than 6,000 Pakistani insurgents are hiding in Afghanistan, most belonging to the outlawed Pakistani Taliban group responsible for attacking Pakistani military and civilian targets, acco... Read more
More than 284,000 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus infection were registered worldwide in the past day, exceeding 15.58 million, while the coronavirus-related fatalities increased by... Read more
Spain is taking new measures to cut a spike in coronavirus cases, amid fears of a more widespread “second wave”. Catalonia has closed its nightlife for two weeks but cities outsi... Read more
Moscow’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin announced on Friday that vaccination against Covid-19 in Moscow will be free of charge, reports TASS. “As soon as it is available, we will launch an inoc... Read more
Australia has rejected Beijing’s territorial and maritime claims in the South China Sea in a formal declaration to the United Nations, aligning itself more closely with Washington in t... Read more
Two Afghan national security force members and 45 Taliban militants were killed and five security force members and 23 militants were wounded during separate clashes on Friday night in Afgha... Read more
Crowds of Muslim worshippers prayed Friday at Istanbul’s revered Hagia Sophia for the first time since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared it would be transformed from a museum into a mo... Read more
After using water cannons to disperse protesters in central Jerusalem, Israeli police arrested over 55 as clashes broke out overnight after thousands demonstrated against Prime Minister Benj... Read more
China has ordered the closure of the US consulate in the south-western city of Chengdu, in a tit-for-tat escalation between the two countries. China said the move was a “necessary resp... Read more
The US and UK have accused Russia of testing a weapon-like projectile in space that could be used to target satellites in orbit. The US State Department described the recent use of “wh... Read more
The US has ordered China to close its consulate in Houston, Texas, by Friday – a move described as “political provocation” by Beijing. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sai... Read more
Henrietta Fore, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has warned that “the pandemic is making a global childcare crisis even worse.” Her remark came after the release of a UN study th... Read more
Senior US Democrats have demanded an urgent intelligence briefing for lawmakers from the FBI over what they said was a concerted foreign campaign to spread disinformation to interfere in Nov... Read more
The US President Donald Trump announced Monday he will resume his televised coronavirus briefings, saying he wants to tout positive news, even as the pandemic spreads across the country. “I... Read more
Brazil registered 921 new deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the nationwide count to 78,772, the country’s health ministry said Saturday. Meanwhile, 28,532 newly confi... Read more
South African Health Minister Zweli Mkhize urged Saturday the public to help the government implement measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. He voiced concern that fatigue seems to have... Read more
Noting that Covid-19 is a human tragedy, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday called for a New Social Contract and a New Global Deal to address inequality across the world. Covi... Read more
The UN’s top rights body adopted a resolution Thursday highlighting states’ responsibilities in addressing pandemics, despite criticism the text, backed by China and Russia among others, shi... Read more
