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Every evening 50 & 60 Muslims stream into the passages of the Santa Anna church for a hearty meal of home-cooked food

Restrictions imposed because of 'magnitude and scope of Covid-19 pandemic' in India, says White House

Biden has called the family separations a 'moral failure and a national shame'

Provincial council member says that around 30 died in the attack and insurgents also captured base

Finance minister says global lender’s demand for electricity tariff hike ‘unjustified’

Coordinated with demos in Myanmar communities around the world to mark "the global Myanmar spring revolution"

Tensions high in West Bank & Jerusalem during the month of Ramazan

Britain is keen to capitalise on Biden's willingness to re-engage

Modi's Hindu-nationalist party suffered a setback Sunday when it lost a fiercely contested state poll

Several people were pulled from the water and some required life-saving efforts on the beach

Five people rescued and sent to hospital says senior police official

The country reports more than 300,000 new coronavirus cases for a 12th straight day

Country's health ministry says there were 11,394 new cases over the last 24-hour period

Seeks to give financial autonomy to ECP; introduce electronic voting machines

PM Narendra Modi's government is reluctant to impose a national lockdown

We followed bin Laden to the gates of hell -- and we got him, says Biden in a statement

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said he had 'zero' influence over Iran’s foreign policy

Iranian state television says Tehran would free four Americans in exchange for four Iranians held in US

Kingdom suspended entry for non-citizens from 20 states with exception of diplomats and medical practitioners earlier

British authorities have already sent 495 oxygen concentrators and 200 ventilators to India

Revelation that Johnson spent lavishly to redecorate his residence has touched a nerve

Speakers at webinar in Pakistan urge Muslim countries stand against unjust statement

The ban will take effect from May 4

Mamata Banerjee is set to be chief of West Bengal after her Trinamool Congress party won a two-thirds majority

Clubbers had to undergo an antigen Covid test, show a negative PCR test or proof that they had already had coronavirus

The cause of ignition not immediately known, the fires come as the city remains on "high alert"

Makes Covid tests mandatory; condition to come into effect from May 5

However, deaths due to the infection jumped by a record 3,689 bringing the total to 215,542 people

More than 1,000 people march through central London, chanting "Kill the Bill" outside govt buildings

Coordinated with expat communities around the world to mark "the global Myanmar spring revolution"

Counting of votes in Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry scheduled to end on Sunday

Countries have been rushing to help India alleviate the crisis as it battles a devastating second wave

Twitter last week removed dozens of tweets critical of Modi-led government's handling of pandemic

We have all the reasons to expect that final outcome will be successful, says Russia's envoy to UN nuclear watchdog

Violence against Afghans has escalated in recent weeks, with more than hundred Afghan security forces personnel killed

One of the immediate things to do is to essentially call a shutdown of country, says US pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci

P-8 aircraft would help expand maritime surveillance capabilities

Forum of advisers found more mutations in coronavirus that it thinks need to be tracked closely

Counting of votes in local elections for 4 states, 1 union territory to be held on May 2

Sources also said that a delegation of Taliban political leaders had been in Pakistan's capital Islamabad this week

Despite a relentless crackdown killing at least 759 protesters, crowds come out day after day to reject the junta

Preliminary investigation shows the fire was caused because of a short circuit in a designated Covid-19 facility

More than 20 of the people injured were still hospitalized by Friday night

The extended “troika” had been meeting since 2019 to evolve a regional consensus on the Afghan endgame

Buildings shook in Tokyo, the capital, some 400 kilometres away

The exit of US forces has only exacerbated the fear felt by ordinary Afghans

Modi, his top lieutenants, other politicians, opposition figures, held election rallies throughout March and April

The country opens up its mega vaccination drive to all adults, as several states warn of acute vaccine shortages

Government will reconsider the restrictions on May 15

It was not immediately clear how much would be returned to military, but it was likely to be several billion dollars