Sri Lanka has become the first country in South Asia to get Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid vaccine. Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa tweets: “Great news...
The world is in a very “dangerous period” of the COVID-19 pandemic compounded by more transmissible variants like Delta, which is continuing...
The U.S. military will remain involved in the Afghanistan war into September, keeping the option of launching airstrikes against the Taliban to...
After nearly 20 years the US military left Bagram Airfield, the epicenter of its war to oust the Taliban and hunt down...
Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced hope that the country could avoid a nationwide lockdown amid a surge of new infections. According to...
Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that Pakistan was under “pressure” from the United States and other Western powers over his country’s...
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to work together as they extended a 20-year-old bilateral agreement on...
The number of Delta variant cases of COVID-19 in the UK have risen by 35,204 since last week to a total of...
US President Joe Biden has termed it as a sad day for media freedom in Hong Kong and around the world ,...
Former US President Donald Trump will hold a rally on July 3 in the state of Florida, his office said in a...
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