China’s military has approved a coronavirus vaccine for use within its ranks that has been developed by its research unit and a biotech firm, the company said Monday. Organisations around th... Read more

French ex-Prime Minister François Fillon and his Welsh wife Penelope have been jailed over a “fake jobs” scandal. He was sentenced to five years in jail, three of them suspended,... Read more

US President Donald Trump and a number of officials were sued by Iran for their involvement in the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani. General Ali Qasi Mehr, prosecutor of Tehran, sai... Read more

UNB: Some 105 global leaders including 18 Nobel Laureates have signed a call initiated by Yunus Centre to declare COVID-19 Vaccines as a global common good. Some 32 former chiefs of states a... Read more

AFP:Global infections from the novel coronavirus on Sunday surpassed 10 million as the rate of new cases surges. One million new cases were recorded in only six days, according to an AFP cou... Read more

Xinhua: Swarms of crop-destroying desert locusts Saturday invaded Gurugram, the outskirts of Indian capital city Delhi. Witnesses said they watched the swarms moving in clusters in the sky o... Read more

Russia has rejected as “baseless” accusations that it offered Taliban-linked militants rewards to kill US and other Nato troops in Afghanistan. The New York Times and Washington... Read more

Xinhua: Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin has been elected as new prime minister of Ireland in a vote held here on Saturday at a special meeting of the lower house of the Irish parliament. A... Read more

Three people are believed to have died after an incident at a hotel in Glasgow city centre. It is thought that two people were fatally stabbed before the attacker was shot dead by armed poli... Read more

Xinhua: Countries must overhaul food production systems, ensure they are climate-resilient and profitable at small-holder level to avert hunger and malnutrition as the post-COVID-19 recovery... Read more

AFP: South Africa will roll out the continent’s first coronavirus vaccine trial this week, the university leading the pilot said Tuesday, as the country grapples with the highest number of c... Read more

UNB:The global death toll from Covid-19 reached 471,640 on Tuesday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University. Besides, the number of con... Read more

UNB:Experts on Monday said that the signing of a so-called human rights act related to China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region by the United States has interfered in China’s int... Read more

Top Chinese and Indian military commanders have arrived at a consensus on the “outstanding issues” and agreed to take necessary measures to “cool down” the situation... Read more

Chinese hackers have increased attempts to hack several Indian entities after the recent border clash between the two countries, reports Business Today. Hacker groups with links to the Chine... Read more

Xinhua:Thailand’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation announced on Monday that the country’s COVID-19 vaccine trial has made progress after macaque monkeys which w... Read more

Xinhua: For the first time since the beginning of March, no COVID-19 patient was reported dead in the past 24 hours in the Netherlands, the National Institute for Public Health and the Envir... Read more

The novel coronavirus pandemic is still accelerating and its effects will be felt for decades, the World Health Organization’s director-general told an online conference on Monday. “The pand... Read more

The World Health Organization said Thursday that a few hundred million COVID-19 vaccine doses could be produced by the end of the year — and be targeted at those most vulnerable to the virus... Read more