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Snowstorm began on Wednesday evening, leading the authorities to shut down public transportation

It is targeting a 60% increase in annual revenues to more than 50 billion roubles ($675.33 million) by 2025

The government is counting on the Pfizer shot, developed with BioNTech, to ramp up its Covid-19 vaccination programme

Pope Francis is a big supporter of vaccines to stem the spread of the coronavirus

Says Facebook’s move to block all media content in Australia is an irresponsible attempt to bully a democracy

‘Despite our happiness … our happiness is incomplete,” says sister of prisoner

US is committed to a deal that includes ‘a just and durable political settlement,’ says state department

Study says 1.67 million lives were lost in India as a whole in 2019 due to toxic air

Falls in infections and deaths coincide with lockdowns and severe curbs on gatherings and movements

Ambassador Akram says “more permanent members will compound Council’s inequality and dysfunctionality”

Auckland lockdown was the first in the country for about six months

The nuclear-armed neighbours last week announced a plan to pull back troops, tanks, equipment

Tehran says its nuclear steps are reversible if Washington lifts the sanctions

"This is the first major step towards ending the pandemic,” said vice health minister

FSB said it had seized a suicide belt, homemade bombs and automatic weapons from suspects

Premier virtually addresses opening session of Governing Council of International Fund for Agricultural Development

Duke is expected to remain in hospital for a few days of observation and rest, says Buckingham Palace

State governor orders immediate closure of boarding schools in the area

Images of lingerie photoshoot come just weeks after pop icon upset Indian govt by commenting on farmers' protests

In 2018, Priya Ramani became first of a string of women to go public with allegations against MJ Akbar

UN envoy warned army of “severe consequences” for any harsh response to the pro-democracy demonstrations

The foreign minister said he did not support slapping “widespread generalised indiscriminate sanctions” on Myanmar

China wants to know if the US may have trouble making F-35 fighter jets if China imposes an export ban

Barrage of rockets hit in and near a military airbase occupied by the US-led coalition

“We will not be able to be part of such a process if the new administration returns to that deal”

Clinical trial showed shot offered minimal protection against new coronavirus variant

The South African variant was detected in four people last month and the Brazilian one in one person this month

Current political situation is ‘absolutely not’ what Beijing wants to see, says Chinese envoy

South Korea says it foiled attempts by its neighbour to hack into South Korean firms developing coronavirus vaccines

Ankara claimed on Sunday that militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) executed the 13 Turks

Israeli defence ministry says request for special permission to fly out to Abu Dhabi was refused

Indian climate activist Disha Ravi, 22, was arrested by Delhi police on Saturday

Experts say India has been trying to use its vaccine dominance to shore up diplomatic support

Says without China, many of the key ingredients like batteries and solar power wouldn't be so affordable

Washington says the cargo contravened US terrorism regulations

The United States said it stood by fellow NATO member Turkey and that it condemned the killings

Troops’ withdrawal from Afghanistan depends on violence levels, says Jens Stoltenberg

In new report, UN mission in Afghanistan says targeted attacks fading hopes for peace in war-ravaged country

The Senate voted 57-43 in favor of convicting the former president

With 43 of the 50 Rep senators vote in favour of Trump on the charge of inciting deadly riot at the US Capitol

14.56 million people have received a shot so far according to official figures

The number of people who died from Covid-19 infections rose by 199 to 81,647

China fires back saying US damaged multilateral cooperation and the WHO in recent years

First 7 million doses of Oxford-developed AstraZeneca vaccines expected to arrive in Pakistan before April

Injured now under treatment in nearby state-run hospital

Announcement extends measures to curb virus spread which include cinema, indoor sports centres closures

The site in Egypt’s Sohag Governorate likely dates back to the reign of King Narmer around 3,100 BC

Scientists say the flash flood could have been triggered by a large avalanche of glacier ice

Dancers and a band led the procession of elephants and couples

Dhaka has relocated around 7,000 to Bhasan Char island since early December