Four women aid workers were gunned down yesterday in a restive part of northwestern Pakistan, police said, as a fresh wave of extremist violence rattles the Afghan borderlands.

The US Supreme Court yesterday paved the way for a New York City prosecutor to obtain former President Donald Trump’s tax returns and other

The World Health Organization yesterday blasted wealthy countries for not only hogging Covid vaccines but in doing so, hindering the pathway for poorer nations to get them too.

Iran yesterday hailed a visit by the UN nuclear watchdog chief and a temporary agreement on site inspections as a “significant achievement”, amid international efforts to salvage its troubled nuclear deal.

UN chief Antonio Guterres yesterday criticised countries that are using the pandemic to justify cracking down on dissent, reining in the media and suppressing criticism.

China has rejected “slanderous attacks” about conditions for Muslim Uighurs and other minorities living in its Xinjiang region, insisting that they enjoyed freedom of religion and labour rights.

Thailand Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given emergency use authorisation for the CovidD-19 vaccine of Sinovac Biotech, paving the way for the country’s first coronavirus inoculations.

The United States will seek to strengthen and extend the agreement between world powers and Iran aimed at curbing its nuclear programme, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday that white supremacy and neo-Nazi movements are becoming a “transnational threat” and have exploited the coronavirus pandemic to boost their support.

Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi said on Monday the United States and China could work together on issues like climate change and the coronavirus pandemic if they repaired their damaged bilateral relationship.

India yesterday said that its troops, along with their Chinese counterparts, had completed a pullback from a disputed part of their 3,500-kilometre-long Himalayan border after months of heightened tensions.

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) yesterday summoned the wife of West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress leader and lawmaker Abhishek Banerjee, who is the nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in a case relating to coal smuggling, officials of the probe agency said.

A United Airlines plane suffered a fiery engine failure yesterday shortly after taking off from Denver for Hawaii, dropping massive debris on a residential area before a safe emergency landing, officials said.

Frustrated Texans queued for hours for safe drinking water, after an unprecedented and deadly “polar plunge” burst pipes and left millions in the US state shivering without power or clean water for days.

Four people have died from the hemorrhagic Ebola virus during a new outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said yesterday,

India and the Maldives yesterday signed a $50 million defence Line of Credit (LoC) agreement to boost maritime capabilities of the strategically-located Indian Ocean island nation.

Tehran yesterday retreated its stance that the United States must first lift sanctions on Iran if it wants to talk about salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javaf Zarif saying “nothing has changed” since President Joe Biden took power from his predecessor Donald Trump.

A sombre Buddhist funeral song rung out in Myanmar’s capital as the body of a young woman, struck down during a rally against this month’s military coup, was carried to a ceremony marking the end of her short life.

Former US President Donald Trump will seek to return to the political spotlight in an address to a major meeting of conservatives, a source familiar with his plans said on Saturday, as the Republican plots his post-White House moves.

“Bangla Nijer Meyekei Chaye” (Bengal wants its own daughter) -- is the new slogan unveiled yesterday by West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress