Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi arrived in Cairo on Sunday for talks with senior Egyptian officials over the ongoing ceasefire in place between Israel and the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The trip is the first formal visit by an Israeli Foreign Minister to Egypt in nearly 13 years, dpa news agency reported. Ashkenazi […]
Anti-Pakistan sentiments is fuelling anger among the locals in Afghanistan and its nationals living abroad, as killings of innocent people in various incidents in Afghanistan have been blamed on terror infiltration from across the Pakistan border. Expressing their increasing anger against Pakistan, a group of Afghan protesters on Monday staged a demonstration outside the Pakistani […]
Following a major power breakdown in Karachi amid the scorching heat, electricity supply has been restored in most areas of the coastal city, the media reported on Sunday. The power supply was cut off at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday and resumed after four to five hours, reports The Express Tribune. “During this time, due to […]
A lorry driver lost a massive load of beer on a German highway, with the spilt suds and broken glass causing traffic to come to a standstill, police said on Tuesday. The beer crates tumbled off the sides of the truck outside of the northern city of Bremen on Monday night, snarling traffic on the […]
People in England, Scotland and Wales can now sit indoors in pubs and restaurants and can hug each other again, in the biggest single lifting of coronavirus restrictions since the start of the UK’s successful vaccination campaign. While bars and restaurants in England and Wales are reopening their indoor seating areas for the first time […]
An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale struck off Japan’s Fukushima prefecture on Friday, according to authorities. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said that temblor occurred at 8.58 a.m., with its epicentre at a latitude of 37.7 degrees north and a longitude of 141.8 degrees east, and at depth of 40 km, reports Xinhua […]
China’s Anhui province on Friday reported its third locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, according to health authorities. The case was detected in Feixi County under the provincial capital of Hefei, Xinhua news agency quoted the city-based emergency epidemic prevention and control headquarters as saying. This is the second case in Feixi and the third in Anhui […]
A team of US researchers has found that delaying the second dose of Covid-19 vaccines, at least for people aged under 65, could result in up to 20 per cent lower mortality, but only under certain conditions. These conditions include a one dose vaccine effectiveness (efficacy) of 80 per cent or higher and vaccination rates […]
Nations across the world have come forward to help India in its fight against the raging second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, which is extremely virulent and has ravaged the country in the past few weeks. As per official sources, the US, the UK, France, Ireland, Australia, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, the […]
At least 65 people were killed in clashes and terrorist attacks in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, an independent war monitoring group said on Monday. “Over the past 24 hours, our team has documented 65 deaths, including six civilians, 12 Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) members, and 47 Taliban militants,” the group, […]