Syria reports new Israeli missile barrage near Damascus
Damascus, Jan 31 (AP) Syrian air defences confronted Israeli missiles targeting an area near the capital, Damascus, downing some of them, Syria's state news...
Putin accuses Ukraine of a ‘large-scale provocation’ in southwestern Russia
KYIV, Ukraine, 7 Aug (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday described a Ukrainian incursion into the country’s southwestern Kursk region as a...
US, UK, Australia launch new trilateral Indo-Pacific alliance to counter China
Washington/London, Sep 16 (PTI) The US, Britain and Australia have announced a new trilateral security alliance for the Indo-Pacific to take on the threats...
OPEC and allies to decide oil output amid omicron spike
Frankfurt, Jan 4 (AP) OPEC and allied oil-producing countries are expected to press ahead Thursday with restoring cutbacks in output made during the depths...
Nine suspected ISIS terrorists arrested in Pakistan’s Punjab province
Lahore, 14 Sep: Law enforcement agencies have arrested nine suspected terrorists of ISIS and anti-Shia organisations in the Punjab province of Pakistan and foiled...
Bad weather in Black Sea slows 1st Ukrainian grain shipment
KYIV, Ukraine , Jul 3 (AP) — The first cargo ship to leave Ukraine since Russia invaded its neighbor more than five months ago...
AstraZeneca Covid vaccine protection wanes after three months: Lancet study
London, Dec 21 (PTI) The protection offered by the Oxford-Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine declines after three months of receiving two doses of the preventive,...
China guarded on Sri Lankan President’s appeal for restructuring debt repayments
Beijing, Jan 10 (PTI) China on Monday reacted cautiously to Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's request for Beijing's assistance in mitigating his country's deepening...
Top German diplomat: Taliban to cause Afghanistan’s downfall
ISLAMABAD, 7 Jun: Germany’s top diplomat expressed concerns Tuesday during a visit to Pakistan that neighboring Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers are leading that country...
5 killed in fresh clashes between radical Islamist party supporters and police in Pak
Lahore, Oct 27 (PTI) At least five persons, including a policeman, were killed on Wednesday in fresh clashes between supporters of a radical Islamist...
Explosion in south Lebanon kills 1, injures several
SIDON, Lebanon , Apr 12 (PTI) — An explosion ripped through a building in southern Lebanon early on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding...
Pakistan ‘not completely optimistic’ of Taliban govt in Kabul: NSA
Islamabad, Jan 27 (PTI) Pakistan's frustration with the Afghan Taliban became evident on Thursday when its top security official said that Islamabad was "not...
Pfizer vaccine highly effective against COVID-19 hospitalisations for six months: Lancet study
Washington, Oct 5 (PTI) Two doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are 90 per cent effective against hospitalisation from the disease for all variants,...
Man kills 2 officers at police station in Malaysia in a suspected Jemaah Islamiyah...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, 17 May (AP) — A man stormed a police station in Malaysia and killed two police officers early Friday in what’s...
Air pollution and genes may elevate risk of depression: Study
Washington, Nov 9 (PTI) Exposure to high-particulate-matter air pollution may significantly increase the risk of depression in healthy people who have a genetic predisposition...
Emergency convoy delivers provisions to survivors of devastating landslide in Papua New Guinea
MELBOURNE, 25 May: Survivors searched through tons of earth and rubble by hand looking for missing relatives while a first emergency convoy delivered food,...
Trump ups competition with DeSantis in planning trip to Iowa
Des Moines (Iowa), 30 Apr: The competition between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis is intensifying as the former president is scheduling a return trip...
UN experts: Sudan’s paramilitary forces carried out ethnic killings and rapes that may be...
UNITED NATIONS, 1 Mar: Paramilitary forces and their allied militias fighting to take power in Sudan carried out widespread ethnic killings and rapes while...
Putin warns West: Moscow has ”red line” about Ukraine, NATO
Moscow, Nov 30 (AP) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday sternly warned NATO against deploying its troops and weapons to Ukraine, saying it represents...
Xi, Putin meet in Uzbekistan as Ukraine war dominates
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan , Sep 15(AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin met for talks on boosting ties between their countries Thursday,...