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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

One senior security source told Reuters that Turkish intelligence personnel were among the dead

Prime Minister Narendra Modi hands over 1st armoured fighting vehicle to army chief

The first picture of Mars captured by the first-ever Arab probe in history, says UAE Prime Minister

Disha, 22, edited an online 'toolkit' containing information on protests that was tweeted by activist Thunberg

Khan won a secret ballot against three other candidates to replace lead prosecutor Fatou Bensouda

“We will ask for much smaller trials, with a few hundred participants, rather than 30,000 to 40,000,”

At least four security force members, including a commander, killed and seven critically injured on Saturday

WHO says it considered it highly unlikely the virus escaped from a lab

300 volunteers will be enrolled and first inoculations are expected this month

Retirement of four members leaves occupied region without any representation in the upper house

Insurgent group categorically denies it violated February 29 Doha accord

The United Nations human rights office says more than 350 people have been arrested in Myanmar since the coup

The 28-year-old, who goes by the name 'Spidey Htoo', wore the superhero costume at protests to avoid getting arrested

Earthquake with magnitude of 7.1 hit off the coast of eastern Japan, shaking buildings but no tsunami warning issued

Officials say two 11-week-old white tiger cubs that died in a Pakistani zoo last month appear to died of Covid-19

Preliminary investigations show more than $50 million of damage has been caused by fire so far, says local official

Says reopening schools remains the priority, then working forwards to getting non-essential retail open as well

Spike in coronavirus cases in western Iran and spread of UK variant have raised alarm in Iran

Statement came days after a WHO team returned from Wuhan, China, with no clear finding on the origin of the virus

European Union likely to impose travel bans and asset freezes on allies of Russian president say diplomats

Further eroding confidence in the organisers’ ability to pull off the event during a coronavirus pandemic

Senior bankers have responded to the extra strain by opening up about their own vulnerabilities

The government has said it has zero tolerance towards sexual violence

Health workers in India vaccinated only 7.5 million frontline workers In four weeks

Britain, Germany and France urge Iran not to take any new 'non-compliant steps' on its nuclear programme

88% of countries which had started vaccinating nurses are high or upper-middle-income countries, according to ICN

Investigation underway into what caused blaze at the factory, says police official

Aides involved in internal discussions are considering executive action to be signed by Biden in coming ‘weeks’

After a months-long standoff on the disputed border

With exposure within three months following receipt of the last dose as criteria

About 171 people remain unaccounted for since Sunday’s disaster in the Uttarakhand state

France, Britain, and Germany, all parties to the deal, said they were “deeply concerned”

Biden said a free and open Indo-Pacific was a priority, Xi warned confrontation would be disaster for both nations

More than 120 participants held a Zoom call last Friday to discuss the breakaway group

Almost a quarter of EU companies would have had liquidity problems by the end of 2020

Ahead of a meeting between British and EU officials on Northern Ireland trade problems