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BEIJING: China reported 43 new Covid cases, including four locally transmitted infections in Beijing, health authorities said on Sunday. The four new locally transmitted coronavirus cases detected in Beijing pushed the total infections…

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s efforts to cast himself at the vanguard of Islam are evident everywhere. Meanwhile, Pakistan Army chief General Bajwa is yet to show his hand. …

The information and communications technologies (ICTs) have the potential to provide new solutions to development challenges, particularly in the context of globalization…

CANBERRA: The Australian government has launched the next phase of its coronavirus vaccination campaign as the country continues to battle the third wave of Covid-19 infections. Health Minister Greg Hunt Sunday debuted the government's…

BEIJING: China successfully launched a new satellite on Sunday to test and verify space debris mitigation technologies. It was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The satellite, named…

BOGOTA: Colombian security forces have captured the country's most wanted drug trafficker, a rural warlord who stayed on the run for more than a decade by corrupting state officials and aligning himself with combatants on the left and…

SEOUL: The US on Sunday urged North Korea to stop "counterproductive" missile tests, but expressed hope Pyongyang would respond positively to Washington's call for dialogue. It comes after North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic…

NEW YORK: An aromatherapy spray, manufactured in India and being sold in the US, has been found to contain a bacteria that sickened four people earlier this year, of which two persons died, America's public health agency has said. The US…

Early this month, Taiwan reported close to 150 incursions of Chinese aircraft into its Air Defence Identification Zone Taiwan is finding it difficult to keep itself out of…

ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday told his foreign minister to expel the ambassadors of 10 countries, including Germany and the United States, who had appealed for the release of a jailed civil society leader.…