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Amount to be debited from HC account in London as NAB fails to clear liabilities to lobbyist firm

Recently approved vaccine Sinopharm’s Beijing developer says its Phase 3 trial showed 79.34% efficacy

No light show in Beijing, the lions of London’s Trafalgar Square will be barricaded off, as will Red Square in Moscow

One cannot tell British people that they are not Europeans, says Stanley Johnson

It will be first time since 2013 that Pope Francis will have skipped leading a major papal event for health reasons

China's bottled water king dethrones Indian businessman Mukesh Ambani

AstraZeneca vaccine’s efficacy in preventing infections was 70.4%, compared with Pfizer/BioNTech's efficacy of 95%

Coalition air strikes hit Sanaa airport and several other sites in and around the city; no casualties reported yet

More than 1,000 of his tweets and a number of media interviews he gave have been examined by the prosecution

After five years of frenzied gyrations of the Brexit crisis that have dominated European affairs

The Iraqi prime minister has urged calm but also warned that "we are ready for a decisive confrontation if necessary"

The public floggings and executions in the city's squares still haunt residents

Matthew went to a drive-up hospital testing site and tested positive for Covid-19 the day after Christmas

The 17th-century mausoleum, was shut in March after government imposed a lockdown to curb the spread of the Covid-19

Pakistan announces a 1.2 million dose purchase deal with Sinopharm

Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization blamed a misaligned radar system, lack of communication for downing of the plane

Opposition politicians said the move was an attack on Muslims

Minorities in India particularly Muslims feeling isolated and intimidated, says President Arif Alvi

232 freedom fighters and 177 Indian troops also among 474 deceased, says report

More than 700 seminaries will be shut by April, says Indian state’s education minister

Iran accidentally shot down the Ukrainian plane, mistaking it for a missile when tensions with the US were high

This is the challenge we must rise to in the New Year, says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general

Tensions between Beijing and New Delhi soared in June after troops clashed in hand-to-hand combat in Ladakh

However, President-elect Joe Biden pledges to halt arms sales to the kingdom

The cabinet members including Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik were transferred safely to city’s presidential palace

Four contractors worked for the private security firm Blackwater owned by the brother of Trump’s education secretary

Police say blaze probably started by migrants unhappy at the temporary closure of the camp, scheduled for the same day

Countries brace for higher infections ahead of the New Year long weekend

In 2020, thousands of people died from Covid-19 in Iran, which is struggling against destructive US sanctions

Says frenzied import of conventional weapons cannot guarantee solutions to military problems posed by Pakistan, China

Diplomatic representatives from countries were not allowed to enter the hearing at Kantian District People’s Court

UK battles a major winter surge driven by a new, highly contagious variant of the virus

Dampening the city’s New Year’s Eve harbour fireworks display, an event televised around the world

Led by firebrand Islamic cleric Rizieq who was arrested earlier this month

The South Asian nation reports 20 cases of a new infectious strain of Covid first detected in the UK

Singapore expects to have enough vaccine doses for all 5.7 million people by the third quarter of 2021

None of the rescued were injured

Taylor's name became a major rallying cry during the Black Lives Matter protests that rocked the US over the summer

The virus has infected more than 19 million people and killed over 334,000 in the United States

More than one million people have already been vaccinated with unapproved vaccines in China under emergency use

Attorney general Jeffrey Rosen called the acquittals "an affront to terrorism victims everywhere"

Bangladesh on Tuesday moved a second group of Rohingya Muslim refugees to a low-lying island in the Bay of Bengal

The capital’s Covid prevention and control need to initiate emergency mode, a city spokesman says

NATO member Washington has also sanctioned Turkey over its purchase of Russian S-400 missile defences

More than one million people have so far contracted Covid-19 in Iran, with over 54,000 deaths

'Miscreants' remain unidentified as Indian army claims "matter being looked into at the highest level"

Russia’s foreign ministry did not name the individuals in its statement announcing the move

The amount of cocaine seized could have been sold for around 1 billion roubles says Federal Security Service

A total of 770,400 people in the Netherlands have tested positive for Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic

More than 71,000 people in Britain have died within 28 days of a positive test for the disease