Washington (IANS) US President Joe Biden will focus on "fundamentally reshaping and scaling up the multilateral development banks" during his upcoming visit this week to New Delhi for the G20 leaders' meeting, the White House said.
Biden's…
Beijing (IANS) More than 36,000 people in Fuzhou, capital of China's Fujian province, have been temporarily evacuated as typhoon Haikui brought heavy rainstorms to the region, authorities said Wednesday.
As of 7 a.m. Wednesday, torrential…
Seoul (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may soon travel to Russia to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and discuss a possible arms deal, according to a news report.
In its report published on Monday, The New York Times, citing unidentified…
Wellington (IANS) New Zealand scientists on Tuesday released "Shaking Layers" heatmaps to show the intensity of shaking caused by earthquakes in different parts of the country.
The maps could help emergency responders work out where the highest…
Taipei (IANS) At least 44 people were injured and thousands of households were left without power as the powerful typhoon Haikui slammed into Taiwan, authorities said.
Haikui, the first typhoon in four years to directly hit Taiwan, made landfall…
Kiev (IANS) Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov on Monday said he has submitted a letter of resignation to parliament chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk after his dismissal by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"It was an honor to serve the Ukrainian…
Seoul (IANS) A day after the North fired cruise missiles following major joint exercise between South Korea and the US, North Korea has conducted a drill for a "simulated tactical nuclear attack."
As per North's official Korean Central…
Seoul (IANS) North Korea fired several cruise missiles toward the Yellow Sea on Saturday, Seoul's military said, days after South Korea and the US wrapped up their major joint military drills.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) announced the…
Singapore (IANS) Singapore's Indian-origin economist Tharman Shanmugaratnam received a resounding mandate with a whopping 70.4 per cent votes in a three-way contest to elect the city-state's ninth President on Friday.
More than 2.7…
United Nations (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has already visited the UN once this year, is not scheduled to be at the high-level General Assembly meeting of world leaders this month and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is to speak…