British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday brushed aside allegations from his former chief aide that his failings had caused tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths from Covid-19, saying “some of the commentary” bore no relation to reality.

A public transit worker shot dead eight people at a California rail yard Wednesday before turning his gun on himself as police arrived, officials said after the latest mass shooting to hit the United States.

The Indian government’s battle with social media giants escalated yesterday with Twitter accusing the police of “intimidation” and slamming new IT rules that have also alarmed its peers and privacy campaigners.

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday urged Iranians to ignore calls to boycott next month’s presidential election, after several hopefuls were barred from running against ultraconservative candidates.

The UN General Assembly adopted Wednesday by consensus a resolution proposed by Russia to draft a treaty against cybercrime by 2023, an initiative viewed with suspicion by Western nations who fear it could restrict free expression.

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday recognised his country’s role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, as the two countries seek to turn the page on decades of diplomatic tensions over the bloodshed.

Hindu priests at an Indian temple are saying daily prayers to two coronavirus goddesses in an effort to tame the pandemic as the country battles a new infection surge.

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Thousands of people were homeless Thursday after a cyclone battered Covid-ravaged India, killing 4 people.

Global air travel will bounce back strongly by 2023 as countries roll out Covid-19 vaccines and learn to manage the pandemic, noted the International Air Transport Association (Iata).

Turkey pushed NATO allies into watering down an official reaction to the forced landing by Belarus of a passenger plane and the detention of a dissident journalist on Sunday, two diplomats familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Mali's ousted interim president and prime minister have been freed after they were detained by the military and later resigned, an aide to the vice president said on Thursday.

India today termed a recent report in the New York Times (NYT) on the estimated Covid-19 death count in India as “completely baseless and false.”

India’s capital Delhi reported its first case of white fungus, which causes multiple perforations in the intestine of a Covid-19 patient, doctors in a leading private hospital said today.

Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) said on Thursday it was worried about the safety of its staff in India, days after police visited its office as part of a probe related to the social media firm’s tagging of some ruling party posts as manipulated.

UN General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir on Wednesday has expressed determination to ensure a better future for the Rohingyas.

French oil and gas group Total and U.S. energy company Chevron have suspended some payments from a gas joint venture that would have reached Myanmar's junta, earning praise from pro-democracy activists for taking an important first step.

Delhi police arrested a local YouTuber who in one of his videos tied his pet dog to several helium gas balloons in a bid to make it “fly”.

In a supposed goof-up by Indian health workers, 20 people were given a mix of Covid-19 vaccines Covaxin and Covishield at a village in Siddharthnagar district of Uttar Pradesh.

People around the world stayed up Wednesday to watch a cosmic event called a super blood moon, a combination of a total lunar eclipse and a brighter-than-usual supermoon.