TamilWHO chief to be confirmed for second term
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to be confirmed by the U.N. health agency’s…
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Taiwan sees rise of 80,000 Covid-19 cases a day
Billed a Covid-19 success story as its economy boomed through the pandemic, Taiwan is now…
Teen gunman kills 19 children and teacher at Texas school
A teenage gunman killed at least 19 children and two adults after storming into a…
Monkeypox: First case reported in Denmark
Denmark and Scotland reported their first confirmed case of monkeypox. Cases of monkeypox have now…
Heallth alert amid monkeypox outbreak in Bangladesh
Amid rising cases of monkeypox across the world, Bangladesh has declared a health alert to…
Philippines detects first case of Omicron sub-variant BA.4
The Philippines has detected the Covid-19 Omicron sub-variant BA.4 in a Filipino citizen who flew…
Covid cases go up in New York
New York City, the largest city in the United States, raised its COVID-19 alert level…
N Korea reports 270k fever cases amid Covid crisis
Health officials in North Korea found 269,510 more people with feverish symptoms and reported another…
Monkeypox spreads in UK
The monkeypox virus continues to spread in the United Kingdom as four more cases have…
France lifts Covid mask rule on public transport
Face masks are no longer required in metros, trains and planes in France from today,…
Hungary to resist sanctions on Russian oil
As European Union leaders continue to push for an embargo on Russian oil, Hungary’s prime…
Putin warns against expansion of NATO
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow would respond if the North Atlantic Treaty…
Karachi blast kills woman, injures 12 others
A blast was reported in Pakistan’s Karachi city. As per Pakistani journalist Mughees Ali, the…
Biden considers executive orders, new funds for abortion
President Joe Biden is considering executive orders and other measures to increase access and funding…
Medvedev, Volodin lash out at US aid to Ukraine
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused the United States on Wednesday of waging a proxy…
China silent on Rajapaksa’s resignation
Watching warily the spiralling violence in Sri Lanka, China on Wednesday declined to comment on…
Death toll in Sri Lanka violence rises
The death toll rose to eight on Tuesday in the unprecedented violence in Sri Lanka…
Women protest Taliban’s burqa diktat
About a dozen women protested in the Afghan capital on Tuesday against the Taliban’s new…
Yoon Suk Yeol is S Korea’s new President
Conservative Yoon Suk Yeol took office as South Korea’s president on Tuesday, facing a tougher…
Death toll from hotel explosion in Havana rises to 30
The death toll from Friday’s explosion at Hotel Saratoga in Havana rises to 30 on Sunday,…
60 feared dead in Ukraine school bombed by Russia
Two people have been killed in the Russian bombing of a school in the Ukrainian…