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With only 8% of 7.5m residents inoculated, authorities aim to boost lackluster demand for jabs in the financial hub

India battles second wave of infections, especially in the economically significant state of Maharashtra

The country has received two million doses of China’s Sinovac shots and 117,300 AstraZeneca shots

A message had been sent overnight to French citizens and companies following a threat by the hardline group

The action will add a new chill to the already frosty relations between Washington and Moscow

UN human rights office says it feared the military clampdown on the protests risked escalating into a civil conflict

Biden will begin withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan to end America’s longest war

The reported death toll rose by 293 to 79,381

Top intelligence officers from India, Pakistan held secret talks in Dubai in a new effort to calm military tension

We will ask other countries to support Afghanistan, specially Pakistan, as well as Russia, China, says Joe Biden

President of European Commission said EU was in talks with Pfizer & BionTech for a new contract for 1.8 billion doses

Scientists say changes could make virus more resistant to vaccines with 'potentially grave implications'

The country reported 184,372 cases in the last 24 hours, taking total infections to 13.9 million

Ambassador Kuninori Matsuda calls on Gen Qamar at GHQ, vows to bolster bilateral ties

Taliban militants were responsible for 43.5 percent of civilian casualties while government troops caused 25 percent

Brenton Tarrant is in jail for murdering 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch on 15 March 2019

Germany says it would match American plans to leave after two decades of war

Opponents of military rule splash the colour red, in the latest phase of their campaign to restore democracy

German authorities are entangled in a fierce political debate over restrictions imposed to fight the pandemic

Critics said the departure plan appeared to surrender Afghanistan to an uncertain fate

Rouhani pledges that Iran's nuclear activity will "certainly be peaceful" and under IAEA supervision

Two govts re-opened a back channel of diplomacy aimed at a modest roadmap to normalising ties, says a Reuters report

The federal government and to discuss setting up mass vaccination centres from as early as June

The country reports 184,372 cases in the last 24 hours, while the deaths rise by 1,027

The Biden administration is also reviewing its policy for military sales to Saudi Arabia

Pakistan will always support an “Afghan led-Afghan Owned” peace process, army chief tells Blinken

A fissile purity of 90% is suitable for a nuclear bomb

The illness is thought to derive from a rare immune response to the vaccines that triggers the activation of clots

Withdrawal would be based on certain security and human rights guarantees, say sources

The incident comes a day after Iran accused arch-foe Israel of sabotaging a key nuclear site

It uses a photo of eye, and identifies the virus by means of a symptomatic inflammation called “pink eye”

Tehran has said an explosion on Sunday at its key nuclear site was an act of sabotage by arch-foe Israel

Chinese FM spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters they had lodged 'stern representations' with the United States

Authorities have blamed the latest surge on millions travelling across the country for Iranian New Year last month

The legislation, the brainchild of the Macron government to "secularize Islam" in France, has been widely condemned

Main opposition leader diagnosed with COVID-19 as expert warns of newly detected more infectious South African variant

India reported 161,736 cases on Tuesday, taking its total to 13.7 million

AstraZeneca’s vaccine is by far the cheapest and most high-volume shot launched so far

'Muslim Americans have enriched our country since our founding,' says US president

Britain has seen one of the world’s quickest vaccine rollouts

"We are in a critical point of the pandemic right now," said Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO's technical lead on Covid-19

India has so far used two vaccines, one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University

The report was the latest from Canada’s intelligence community to focus on Russia and China

Osaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura has cancelled Olympic Torch relay runs on public streets

Discussions about whether to take part or not and when we can take part are underway, says Mohammed Naeem

We will always be proud that it was our country that paved the road to outer space, says the president

Another person was injured during the shooting and being treated at a hospital, source says

Criminals are also offering fake coronavirus vaccines and home-testing kits as they seek to capitalise the crisis

Says the decline in cases and deaths in first two months of the year shows that virus & its variants can be stopped

Regeneron's antibody cocktail helped cut the risk of symptomatic infections in households where someone else is ill