UN Chief Calls For Making 2022 As Year of Recovery
NEW YORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged the international community to commit to making 2022 as a year of recovery for everyone. In his...
Travel Restrictions Covid-19: US President Revokes Southern Africa Travel Restrictions
Washington: U.S. President Joe Biden has announced he will lift travel restrictions imposed on eight African countries on December 31 because of the omicron variant...
Saudi Arabia Once Again Made Wearing Of Mask Mandatory
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia said that all citizens must wear masks at all times and maintain social distance to limit the spread of the new coronavirus...
Israeli Jets Attack Syrian Port
An Israeli airstrike hit Syria’s Latakia port before dawn on Tuesday, sparking a fire that lit up the Mediterranean seafront in the second such attack...
Sputnik-V Vaccine More Effective Against Omicron
MOSCOW: Russia’s Sputnik-V vaccine and its one-shot version Sputnik Light booster demonstrates high virus-neutralising activity (VNA) against the highly-contagious Omicron variant of COVID-19, providing a...
US, Russia Set For Security Talks On January 10 Amid Ukraine Tensions
WEB DESK: US and Russian officials have said that they will hold security talks on 10th of next month to discuss concerns about their respective...
Iran Says Vienna Nuclear Talks to Restart Around Joint Document
TEHRAN: The eighth round of Iran nuclear talks are starting on Monday in Vienna, Austria. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told the reporters in Tehran...
Indian Troops Martyr One More Kashmiri Youth In IIOJK
Srinagar: The Indian forces martyred one more Kashmiri youth in south Kashmir’s Islamabad district in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, taking the number of...
Christians In India Being Forced to Convert To Hinduism: New York Times
NEW YORK: Terrifying revelations of atrocities against the Christian community in India have been brought to light by the American newspaper New York Times. Hindu extremists...
France Recommends Covid Booster Jab 3 Months After Initial Vaccines
PARIS: France on Friday recommended that adults receive a Covid-19 booster vaccination three months after their initial jabs, reducing the guideline of five months to...
Google Faces Fine of $98m Over Content Breach
MOSCOW: A Moscow court has said it was imposing a fine on Alphabet’s Google $98m for what it said was a repeated failure to delete...
Christians Across The World Celebrating Christmas
Christians around the world are celebrating Christmas. Prayer ceremonies are being held in all major and small church centers on the birth anniversary of Jesus...
India Court Directs Modi to Defer Local Polls
NEW DELHI: An Indian court has urged the federal election commission and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to postpone state polls due early next year and...
Insulting Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) Is Not Freedom of Expression: Putin
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday insulting Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) does not count as freedom of expression, reported Russian news agency TASS. Putin’s...
At least 37 People Dead in Bangladesh Ferry Fire
DHAKA: At least 37 people died when an overcrowded night ferry caught fire in Bangladesh on Friday, police said. The latest maritime tragedy to hit...
Suicide Bomber Killed at Kabul Passport Office Gate
KABUL: A suicide bomber was killed at the gate of a passport office in the Afghan capital Kabul, a government spokesman said, and several people...
UK Reports Over 1 Lakh Daily Covid Cases, Highest Daily Rise
London: The UK government has reported 106,122 new virus cases in the last 24 hours, the first time the daily figure has topped 100,000, as...
US Authorizes Some Transactions With Taliban
Washington: The United States formally exempted on Wednesday US and UN officials doing permitted business with the Taliban from US sanctions to try to maintain...
US Thanks Pakistan For Holding Int’l Session on Afghanistan
WASHINGTON: The United States (US) thanked Pakistan for hosting a key session of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in which envoys from 57 Islamic nations...
Putin Warns West of Military Measures Over Ukraine Threats
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin warned that Russia was prepared to take military steps in response to “unfriendly” Western actions over the Ukraine conflict, in a...
Lira Plunges Again After Erdogan Rules Out Higher Interest Rates
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s troubled lira shed a further five per cent against the dollar on Monday after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cited Muslim teachings to justify...
Philippines Typhoon Death Toll Climbs To Over 375
Manila: The death toll continues to rise following the strongest typhoon to batter the Philippines this year, with several central towns and provinces still grappling...
Israel Bans Travel to the United States Amid Omicron Fears
TEL AVIV — Israel on Monday barred travel to 10 new countries, including the United States, Canada and Germany, as its total number of omicron...
Typhoon-hit Philippines, 208 People killed, and 52 Still Missing
Manila: The death toll from Typhoon Rai has surpassed 200 in the Philippines, with humanitarian workers reporting “complete carnage” in coastal areas where they said...
China Begins Working On Hypersonic Jets
BEIJING: China has begun work on a hypersonic aircraft that will fly at five times the speed of sound, carrying ten passengers to the other...
Iran’s Top Negotiator Satisfactied Over Nuclear Talks
TEHRAN: Iran says that progress has been made in nuclear talks being held in Vienna. In a Tweet, Iran’s top negotiator in Vienna Ali Bagheri...
EU Warns Russia of ‘Severe Cost’ of Aggression Over Ukraine
EU leaders have warned Russia that action against Ukraine will result in “massive consequences” and a “severe cost” amid worries over the build-up of Russian...
27 Dead in Japan’s Osaka Fire
TOKYO: Twenty-seven people were feared dead after a blaze at a building in a commercial district of the Japanese city of Osaka on Friday, the...
Two Kashmiris Martyred in IoK
SRINAGAR: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian troops in their continued act of state terrorism martyred two more youth in Kulgam district. The...
France Tightens Rules on UK Travelers Amid Omicron Surge
France has tightened restrictions on travellers arriving from the United Kingdom, as infections linked to the Omicron coronavirus variant surge in Britain. The move comes...
US House Of Representatives Approves Bill Against Islamophobia
Washington: When Republican Representative Lauren Boebert cracked a racist, Islamophobic joke about Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar in the US House of Representatives, it wasn’t the...
Time Magazine Names Elon Musk Person of The Year
Time magazine has named Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk as its Person of the Year, for an incredible 12 months of achievements in which...
Omicron Variant of COVID Is Less Dangerous: Study
The South African study claims that Omicron variant of the COVID-19 is less dangerous than other variants, while Two shots of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine offers...
At least 50 killed in Haiti Gas Tanker Blast
At least 50 people were killed when a gas tanker exploded in the Haitian city of Cap-Haitien on Tuesday morning, according to a local official,...
7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Jolts Indonesia
Jakarta: A 7.3-magnitude struck Indonesia Tuesday, with monitors briefly issuing a warning of the possibility of hazardous tsunami waves. However, the threat was later lifted....
Rahul Gandhi Criticizes Modi’s Hindutva Govt
JAIPUR: The Congress held a rally in Jaipur to protest inflation and accused the Centre of working for the interest of “capitalists” and “industrialists”, terming...
Baltic Sea: Cargo Ships Collide off Sweden’s Coast
Two cargo ships have collided in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Sweden. ...
US Tornadoes: Death Toll Likely To Pass 100
In United States, the death toll from powerful tornadoes that devastated towns in Kentucky is likely to pass hundred. President Joe Biden has declared a...
WHO Warns Omicron Coronavirus Variant Poses Very High Global Risk
The World Health Organization has warned that the Omicron coronavirus variant, poses a very high global risk with some evidence that it evades vaccine protection....
At Least 84 Killed As Tornadoes Hammer Six US states
MAYFIELD: Dozens of devastating tornadoes ripped through the Midwest and the southeastern US overnight involving six US states overnight, leaving more than 70 people dead...
WB Says Donors Approve Release of $280 mn For Afghanistan
WASHINGTON: International donors agreed to release $280 million in aid to Afghanistan, the World Bank said Friday, after repeated warnings that more than half the...
Bus Bomb Kills Two in Afghan Capital: Taliban
KABUL: Two people were killed and four wounded in separate bomb explosions Friday in Kabul, the Taliban government said. “Two civilians have been killed and...
Indian CDS Bipin Rawat Laid To Rest
NEW DELHI: India’s top general, Bipin Rawat, was cremated in New Delhi on Friday with full military honours, including a 17-gun salute, two days after...
UK Court Allows Assange’s Extradition to US For Spying Case
LONDON: A British appellate court opened the door Friday for Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States by overturning a lower court’s decision...
Saudi Arabia’s MBS On First Visit to Qatar Since End of Blockade
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has arrived in Doha on the third stop of his tour of the Gulf states, the first visit...
Sharjah Adopts Three-Day Weekend
SHARJAH: The southern Gulf emirate of Sharjah announced Thursday a shift to a three-day weekend for the official sector. The move comes after the United...
Omicron Reported in 57 Countries: WHO
The World Health Organization has warned that the new Omicron variant has been reported in fifty seven countries and number of patients needing hospitalization is...
Indian Defense Chief Bipin Rawat Dies In Chopper Crash Along With 12 Others
NEW DEHLI: Top Indian military official General Bipin Rawat, along with 12 others, were killed on Wednesday when an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter crashed...
Indian CDS General Bipin Rawat’s Chopper Crashes In Tamil Nadu, 11 Killed
New Delhi: An Indian Air Force helicopter crashed in Tamil Nadu’s Coonoor on Wednesday. The Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat, was on board...
Indian Chief Of Defence Staff Helicopter Crashes, Four Killed
New Delhi: An Indian Air Force helicopter with Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on board crashed in Tamil Nadu’s Coonoor on Wednesday. Four...