AP: Britain, the United States and Canada on Thursday accused Russia on Thursday of trying to steal information from researchers seeking a COVID-19 vaccine. The three nations alleged that ha... Read more
AP: At least 213 people have been killed in floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains across South Asia over the past month, officials said Thursday. More than 1 million people... Read more
AP: China and India have made positive progress in their latest talks on a long-running border dispute that turned deadly in last month, a Chinese official said. Top commanders from the two... Read more
UNB: UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday warned of an alarming decline in the number of children receiving life-saving vaccines around the world due to disruptions in... Read more
AP: An artist has erected a statue of a Black Lives Matter protester atop the plinth in the English city of Bristol once occupied by the toppled statue of a slave trader. Marc Quinn created... Read more
UNB: Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO) has launched a new strategy to move past the coronavirus pandemic and emphasized on working very hard to limit COVID-19’s... Read more
UNB: More than 50 countries have submitted requests to Russia for procuring the Russian-made anti-coronavirus drug Avifavir. Head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev... Read more
Xinhua: “In the coming weeks,” France would make the wearing of face masks mandatory in public indoor spaces to contain the spread of the coronavirus, President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesd... Read more
Xinhua: Foreign ministers of the European Union condemned the Turkish decision to convert Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia back to a mosque, saying ” It will inevitably fuel mistru... Read more
BSS:The United States said Monday that it spoke with Russia about convening a summit of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, a key priority for President Vladimir Putin. In... Read more
Boris Johnson has said people in England “should be wearing” face masks or other coverings inside shops to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. The prime minister said the gov... Read more
A French man accused of molesting hundreds of children in Indonesia has died in a suspected suicide, police say. Francois Camille Abello, 65, was found unresponsive in his cell at a detentio... Read more
BBC: South Africa has introduced new restrictions, including another ban on alcohol sales, to help contain the spread of coronavirus. A night-time curfew has been imposed, and the wearing of... Read more
MPs have called for the government to clarify its position on face coverings, after the PM said a “stricter” approach to their use in England was needed. Senior sources have said... Read more
The United Nations on World Population Day on Saturday showed in its world population trend that the number of global population stands at about 7.7 billion. “It took hundreds of thousands o... Read more
Six National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah), popularly known as NSCN (IM), insurgents have been killed after a gunfight between the insurgents and security forces in Arunachal P... Read more
Image of Indian and Nepali flags and passports used for representational purposes. Nepal’s Parliamentary State Affairs and Good Governance Committee recently endorsed an amendment bill... Read more
AFP: Nepal’s cable television operators have suspended Indian news channels for “objectionable” reporting on the country’s prime minister as tensions between the neig... Read more
UNB: The confirmed cases of coronavirus across the world crossed 12,012,125 while the death toll from Covid-19 climbed to 548,896 as of Thursday morning, according to the Centre for System S... Read more
Ivory Coast’s PM Amadou Gon Coulibaly has died after falling ill at a ministerial meeting. The 61-year-old had been chosen as the ruling party’s candidate for October’s pre... Read more
