United Nations (IANS) Rejecting Organisation for Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) criticism as "divisive," India has said that efforts to combat religiophobia will not succeed if the rising hatred against Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism is ignored.
…Beijing (IANS) Incessant rainstorms have affected hundreds of thousands of people in China's Jiangxi and Hunan provinces, authorities said on Tuesday.
In Jiangxi, the flood control and drought relief headquarters upgraded the flood control…
Taipei (IANS) A 5.9-magnitude earthquake jolted Taiwan's Hualien county on Monday.
According to the China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC), the epicentre of the quake that struck at 9.05 a.m. was monitored at 23.66 degrees north latitude…
Canberra (IANS) Australian flag carrier Qantas has announced a $200 million joint investment with Airbus into the country's sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry, designed to drive down carbon emissions.
The landmark deal, announced…
London (IANS) Just days after saying that the Covid lab leak theory needs "further investigations", the World Health Organisation (WHO) chief has privately confided to a senior European politician that the pandemic originated from China's infamous…
Paris (IANS) As Europe is facing an unusually early and intense heatwave coming from North Africa, governments of many countries have issued warnings and instructions to the public on how to "survive" it.
In France, monthly heat records were…
Islamabad (IANS) Pakistan is one step away from exiting the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as it has successfully complied with all points of the 2018 action plan items, securing approval from the global watchdog and initiating…
Kabul (IANS) The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan on Saturday confirmed that an attack at a gurdwara in Kabul has ended, adding that two people were killed and seven others injured in the incident.
At about 6.30 a.m., three explosions…
Phnom Penh (IANS) Cambodia is ready to host the 16th ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting (ADMM) on June 22 in Phnom Penh, which will be chaired by the country's Defence Minister Gen. Tea Banh, an official statement said on Friday.
According…
London (IANS) UK's Home Secretary Priti Patel has approved Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's extradition to the US, noting that the courts found that the measure would not be "incompatible with his human rights", reports said on Friday.
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