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Members of World Health Organization team depart from the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital after a field visit in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province on Saturday, January 30, 2021. (AP/Ng Han Guan)World
WHO virus probe begins with fieldwork in ground-zero Wuhan

The highly politicised mission had been beset by delays, with China refusing access until mid-January

30 Jan 2021 12:07 PM IST

This handout photo taken and released on January 15, 2021 by Indonesias National Disaster Agency shows rescuers looking for survivors trapped in a collapsed building in Mamuju, after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocked Sulawesi island. (Photo by Handout/ National Search and Rescue Agency / AFP)World
At least 34 killed as quake rocks Indonesia

Rescuers were searching for more than a dozen patients and staff trapped beneath the rubble of the levelled Mamuju...

15 Jan 2021 11:00 AM IST

People walk around in the Shinjuku neighborhood of Tokyo on Thursday, January. 7, 2021, after Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced a state of emergency. Japan declared a state of emergency in Tokyo and three nearby prefectures, starting Friday as coronavirus cases continued to surge in the nation. (AP/Hiro Komae)World
Japanese Health Ministry finds new virus variant

Japan was working with other nations, the WHO and other medical experts to analyze the new version of the virus

11 Jan 2021 11:37 AM IST

Relatives of passengers on board missing Sriwijaya Air flight SJY182 wait for news at the Supadio airport in Pontianak on January 9, 2021, after contact with the aircraft was lost shortly after take-off from Jakarta. - An Indonesian budget airline with 62 people on board is suspected to have crashed into the sea shortly after the Boeing 737 took off from Jakarta airport on January 9, authorities said. (AFP)World
Indonesian plane feared crashed after losing contact

Authorities and the airline gave no immediate indication as to why the plane suddenly went down

9 Jan 2021 8:44 PM IST

Mumbai attacks mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi. (Photo: PTI)World
Mumbai attack mastermind and LeT commander Lakhvi gets 5-year jail...

The US had welcomed Lakhvi's arrest last week but said Pakistan should try him for the Mumbai attacks also

9 Jan 2021 4:11 AM IST

Christians on the screen attend an online Christmas service for social distancing and a precaution against the coronavirus at the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, December. 25, 2020. (AP/Lee Jin-man)World
South Korea reports record virus surge on Christmas Day

The nation has been held up as a model of how to combat the virus, but Friday saw a record 1,241 new infections

25 Dec 2020 1:11 PM IST

In this file photo taken on December 02, 2020 the Moderna logo is seen at the Moderna campus in Norwood, Massachusetts where the biotechnology company is mass producing its Covid-19 vaccine. (Joseph Prezioso / AFP)World
Pharma chief urges transparency in virus vaccine rollout

Takeda inked a deal with the Japanese government and US firm Moderna Therapeutics to import and distribute 50 million...

20 Dec 2020 12:32 PM IST

Cars with people leaving the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia approach the border of Armenia, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. (AP Photo)World
Azerbaijan captures key Karabakh town of Shusha; Armenia vows to fight...

Clashes broke out in late September between Azerbaijan and Armenia-backed separatists over control of Karabakh

8 Nov 2020 5:00 PM IST

A journalist walks inside of a damaged class of the National Legal Training center, a day after gunmen stormed Kabul university in Kabul on November 3, 2020. - Stunned students demonstrated outside Kabul University on November 3 after at least 22 people were killed in a brutal, on-campus attack claimed by the Islamic State group. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)World
Kabul University attack: Aghanistan in mourning after Islamic State...

Outside Kabul University Tuesday a small group of demonstrators gathered demanding a cease-fire

3 Nov 2020 3:52 PM IST

Pro-democracy protesters wave Thailands national flag as others shine their mobile phone lights during an anti-government protest in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP)World
Thailand cancels emergency decree in bid to calm protests

Wednesday marked the eighth straight day of demonstrations by a movement that was launched in March

22 Oct 2020 2:27 PM IST

An employee walks in the water tank of the metropolitan outer underground discharge channel in Kasukabe, Saitama prefecture. - It has been called Japans underground \Parthenon,\ a cavernous complex charged with protecting Tokyo and surrounding areas from catastrophic flooding -- a risk experts warn is growing as climate change advances. (AFP)World
The underground 'Parthenon' protecting Tokyo from floods

In Tokyo alone there are 10 other underground reservoirs and three flood tunnels, and more flood-protection structures...

12 Oct 2020 12:03 PM IST

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. Tsai said Saturday she has hopes for less tensions with China and in the region if Beijing will listen to Taipeis concerns, alter its approach and restart dialogue with the self-ruled island democracy. (AP)World
Taiwan claims entrapment after China shows spy 'confession'

China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, has repeatedly denounced Taipei for offering support to Hong Kong's...

12 Oct 2020 10:51 AM IST

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