Dubai: Health authorities in the United Arab Emirates detected on Tuesday the country's first case of the monkeypox virus in a young woman who traveled from West Africa.
The government said little about the patient, but stressed that authorities were investigating her contacts and taking all necessary measures" to limit...
Tokyo: Divergent views among the Quad leaders over the Ukraine crisis were visible at a summit of the grouping on Tuesday even as US President Joe Biden said Russia's "brutal and unprovoked" war against that country triggered a "humanitarian catastrophe".
While the US President made a hard-hitting attack on Russia...
Bangkok: At least 16 people from Myanmar's Rohingya minority have died after a storm capsized the boat they were travelling on to seek refuge in another country, officials and a recovery team member said Tuesday.
There were 35 survivors of Saturday's accident that took place Saturday off Myanmar's southwestern coast...
Davos: Describing the Kashmir issue as "the elephant in the room", Pakistan minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Tuesday said any efforts to integrate South Asia and boost trade would be futile without resolving the "70-year-old dispute".Her remarks came at a session on 'Strategic outlook on South Asia' at the...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka received a first consignment of a $16 million humanitarian aid package from neighboring India to help mitigate severe shortages caused by the country's worst economic crisis in recent memory.
Gopal Baglay, the Indian envoy to Sri Lanka, delivered the donation from the southern Indian state of Tamil...
On Sunday, it was announced that Mitali Express, the third Indo-Bangladesh train service is set to start service on June 1 from West Bengal's New Jalpaiguri station in India to Dhaka in Bangladesh. The train will take nine hours to travel 513 kilometres between New Jalpaiguri and Dhaka Cantonment station....
China's crackdown on Muslim minorities in the remote region of Xinjiang will return to the spotlight next week when Beijing hosts the United Nations human rights chief for the first time in nearly two decades.
The highly scrutinised six-day trip by High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet will begin Monday, with stops...
The rare-earth elements are a set of 17 silvery-white, soft, heavy metals found in the middle of the periodic table that are valued for their useful electrical, magnetic and luminescent properties that find application in assorted high technology devices. For example, cerium, lanthanum, neodymium and praseodymium are found in...
Jing’an century, a housing development with ponds and lush greenery in north Shanghai, China should have been bustling with activity as workers put the finishing touches on flats.
Instead, the area is silent. A two-month lockdown of the city of 25 million people has forced the developer, a large group called Yanlord,...
The US-led Indo-Pacific strategy is a ploy to create divisions and incite confrontation in the region, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said on Sunday, adding that the plan is bound to fail.
“Facts will prove that the so-called Indo-Pacific strategy is in essence a strategy to create division, to incite...
