President-elect Joe Biden said Friday his administration would surge federal resources into community vaccination centers and mobile health clinics to accelerate the rollout of
Pence offers full co-operation in transition of power
Myanmar police scuffle with nationalist monk’s followers
Protesters, many of them monks, gathered outside the Insein Prison in Myanmar’s main city of Yangon, where Wirathu has been held since November last
Iranian Guard holds anti-warship ballistic missile drill
Footage showed two missiles smash into a target that Iranian state television described as “hypothetical hostile enemy ships” at a distance of 1,800 kilometers
Swiss set to approve AstraZeneca vaccine this month
Astrazeneca vaccine gets approval in Pakistan
Astrazeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine has been granted approval for emergency use in Pakistan, the country’s health minister said on Saturday, the first vaccine against the
US re-designates LeT as foreign terrorist outfit
Ahead of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meeting in February, the United States has re-designated Pakistani terrorist groups as Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) and Lashkar-e-Taiba
Taliban praise US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
The Taliban welcomed the latest withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan with the insurgents’ spokesman Saturday calling the continued reduction of American forces a
Pragmatic governor Armin Laschet elected to lead Merkel’s party
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right party on Saturday chose Armin Laschet, the pragmatic governor of Germany’s most populous state, as its new leader- sending a
Can Trump pardon himself? Would the courts reject the move?
23 die in Norway after receiving Pfizer Covid vaccine
Twenty-three people died in Norway within days of receiving their first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine with 13 of those deaths apparently related
Nasa’s Boeing moon rocket set for ‘once-in-a-generation’ ground test
Donald Trump’s trial could begin on Biden’s Inauguration Day
Pope Francis, former Pope Benedict get Covid-19 vaccine
North Korea parades new submarine-launched missile
Pictures showed at least four of the missiles with black-and-white cones being driven past flag-waving crowds. North Korea is under multiple sets of international
Earthquake in Indonesia kills at least 7, injures hundreds
A powerful earthquake rocked Indonesia’s Sulawesi island early Friday, killing at least 34 people, levelling a hospital and severely damaging other buildings, authorities said.
What WHO researchers in Wuhan are trying to learn
The WHO team of international researchers that arrived in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday hopes to find clues to the origin
Explained: China’s new Covid-19 outbreaks
PIA plane ‘held back’ by Malaysian authorities over UK court case
The Boeing 777 aircraft was seized after a court order, an airline spokesman said, and alternative arrangements were being made for passengers due to
Nepal approves emergency use of Covishield vaccine
Iran tests ballistic missiles, drones in military exercise, state TV says
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards fired “abundant” surface-to-surface ballistic missiles and tested locally manufactured new drones in a military exercise on Friday, state television reported.
Russia withdraws from Open Skies Treaty after US departure
Russia said on Friday it will withdraw from an international treaty allowing observation flights over military facilities following the US exit from the pact.
PIA passenger aircraft ‘held back’ at Kuala Lumpur airport over lease dispute
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane with 170 passengers on board was held back in Malaysia over a lease dispute case between the cash-strapped
Blow to global vaccine drive as Pfizer delays deliveries
UK imposes travel ban amid worries of new Brazil variant
McConnell open to convicting Trump in impeachment trial
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pointedly did not rule out Wednesday that he might eventually vote to convict the now twice-impeached President Donald Trump,
Snapchat permanently bans Donald Trump from site
Image-centric social network Snapchat on Wednesday said it has permanently banned US President Donald Trump from the platform, as voices are raised against keeping
‘No one’ above the law, Pelosi says after Donald Trump impeached
Trump’s impeachment Wednesday confirmed that “no one is above the law,” US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after the defiant Republican president was impeached
S Korea court upholds 20-year jail term for ex-president Park
Park Geun-hye, the daughter of slain military dictator Park Chung-hee, was convicted of colluding with her longtime confidante, Choi Soon-sil, to take millions of
Second year of Covid could tougher than the first: WHO
“We are going into a second year of this, it could even be tougher given the transmission dynamics and some of the issues that