The EU yesterday announced that it has allocated to Turkey the full six billion euros Ankara sought in return for its hosting of Syrian refugees.

Pakistan has returned $1 billion to Saudi Arabia as a second instalment of a $3 billion soft loan, as Islamabad reaches out to Beijing for a commercial loan to help it offset pressure to repay another $1 billion to Riyadh next month, officials said on Wednesday.

Unmanned Chinese spacecraft Chang’e-5 carrying rocks and soil from the Moon returned safely to Earth early yesterday, completing another chapter in China’s effort to become a space superpower.

The EU’s chief negotiator yesterday said there had been good progress in trade talks with Britain that aim to prevent a turbulent finale to the Brexit crisis in two weeks’ time.

Ten years since the intoxicating early days of Tunisia’s revolution, dreams for a better future lie crushed, and in the rural town where it began, the mood yesterday was one of anger rather than hope.

US intelligence agencies have warned a “significant” cyber attack on several federal departments uncovered over the weekend remains ongoing as the government rushes to assess the extent of the breach.

Russian President Vladimir yesterday Putin said that he hopes the administration of incoming US President Joe Biden will work with Russia to resolve disagreements between their countries.

As Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out worldwide, a push for identity proofs and digital certificates risks excluding poorer and vulnerable groups from vaccination and the benefits that come with it, according to rights experts.

The weeks-long farmers’ protest at the borders of Delhi must continue and the national capital cannot be blocked, the Indian Supreme Court said while hearing a series of petitions on the issue.

Gustavo Delgado walks every day from his home in La Boca, a hard-scrabble neighborhood of Buenos Aires, to a nearby community pantry to find the only food that he and his family are sure to be able to eat that day.

European Union states will start vaccinations against Covid-19 in 10 days as Europe tries to catch up with Britain and United States after what some have criticised as a slow EU approval process for the shots.

The top US general met Taliban representatives this week in Qatar and urged them to reduce the level of violence and increase progress towards a political solution, the US military said today.

Qatar Airways has announced to operate two flights daily on the Dhaka-Doha route due to growing number of passengers.

The Japanese capital of Tokyo said on Thursday the strain on its medical system from the Covid-19 pandemic was severe, raising its alert level to the highest of four stages as the number of cases spiked to a record daily high of 822.

Israel will begin rolling out a major coronavirus vaccination campaign next week after the prime minister reached out personally to the head of a major drug company. Millions of Palestinians living under Israeli control will have to wait much longer.

Federal authorities on Wednesday unsealed an indictment charging a Kenyan man with trying to stage a 9/11-style attack on the US on behalf of the terrorist organization al-Shabab.

China’s Chang’e-5 moon probe has landed in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, the official Xinhua news agency reported, completing its return to Earth and bringing back the first lunar samples since the 1970s.

US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President Mike Pence are set to receive the COVID-19 vaccine soon.

Pakistan has introduced a rape law that will create special courts to try cases within four months, after protests over the gang rape of a woman whose car ran out of fuel.

An international mission led by the World Health Organization (WHO) is expected to go to China in the first week of January to investigate the origins of the virus that sparked the Covid-19 pandemic, a member and diplomats have told Reuters.