2021

While typhoons are no strangers to the Phillipines, there is a never-ending trail of devastation left behind each time in terms of human lives, resources and economic distress, apart from homelessness and…

BEIJING: China announced sanctions on Tuesday on four members of the US government’s Commission on International Religious Freedom in retaliation for penalties imposed on Chinese officials over complaints of abuses in the country’s…

NEW DELHI: As the case tally of the new variant of Covid-19 variant Omicron in India touches 200, South African Medical Association Chairperson Dr Angelique Coetzee on Tuesday said that most patients in her country recovered from the…

SHAH ALAM, MALAYSIA: The Malaysian military used boats Tuesday to distribute food to desperate people trapped in their homes after massive floods, as the death toll rose to 14 with over 70,000 displaced. Days of torrential rain triggered…

WASHINGTON: A defiant rejection of his massive social spending bill by a single US senator -- a fellow Democrat -- and a surge in Covid cases are imperiling Joe Biden less than a year into his presidency. Returning to the White House…

The winter solstice takes place when one of the Earth’s poles is tilted away from the sun and is at its maximum distance from it…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers showed nearly a six-fold increase in Omicron's share of infections in only one week Health officials in Texas said the…

India is pro-actively engaging the leadership and people of Central Asia to realise the full potential of the bilateral and regional partnership The third India-Central Asia…

NEW YORK: The jury in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial began deliberating on Monday over whether the British socialite set up teenage girls to have sexual encounters with Jeffrey Epstein or if she is a scapegoat for the late…

The earthquake was at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), EMSC said. The US Tsunami Warning System said there was no tsunami warning after the quake. Source link