Just two semesters short of earning a cybersecurity master’s degree in the US, Sai Naini is stuck in India, unsure what his future holds.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is self-isolating after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, a fresh setback after infighting among his top advisers plunged Downing Street into chaos last week.

Storm Vamco barrelled into Vietnam yesterday, damaging buildings and injuring at least five people, as the death toll in the Philippines climbed to 67.

Belarusian police detained hundreds of people who took to the streets in mass demonstrations yesterday chanting “I’m going out”, the last known written words of an anti-governmemt protester who died last week.

Israel has pushed on with plans to build a new Jewish settler neighbourhood in east Jerusalem, a watchdog group said yesterday, warning such efforts were being stepped up before US President Donald Trump leaves office.

After Donald Trump in his first week as president spoke to Australia’s prime minister, leaks of the call left many dumbfounded, with the new US leader haranguing and hanging up on the close ally.

Azerbaijan yesterday said it had agreed to extend a deadline for Armenia to withdraw from a disputed district as part of a peace accord that ended six weeks of fierce fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Israel’s military said it struck Hamas positions yesterday morning following a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip overnight.

A massive oil well fire that has raged for more than five months in northeast India has finally been extinguished, officials said yesterday. Oil India

Around 25,000 Ethiopians fleeing conflict in the Tigray region have crossed into neighbouring Sudan, state news agency SUNA reported, as the UN

Thousands of die-hard Donald Trump supporters rallied for a last stand Saturday in Washington, chanting “four more years” and blaming fraud for an election defeat that will force the president to vacate the White House after just one term.

The impact of a new Covid-19 vaccine will kick in over summer and life should be back to normal by next winter, one of its creators has said.

President Donald Trump appeared on Sunday to publicly acknowledge for the first time that his Democratic rival Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election, but reiterated his false claims that the vote was rigged.

Gunmen in western Ethiopia killed at least 34 people in an attack on a bus on Saturday night, the national human rights body said on Sunday, as fears grow of a security vacuum in the country amid a military campaign in the north.

Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies formed the world’s largest free trade bloc today, a China-backed deal that excludes the United States, which had left a rival Asia-Pacific grouping under President Donald Trump.

US President-elect Joe Biden is expected to take a historic step and select a woman to head the Pentagon for the first time, shattering one of the few remaining barriers to women in the department and the presidential Cabinet.

A fire at a hospital treating Covid-19 patients in northeastern Romania killed 10 people Saturday and injured 10 others, seven of them critically, officials said. Prosecutors quickly opened a criminal investigation.

After Donald Trump in his first week as president spoke to Australia's prime minister, leaks of the call left many dumbfounded, with the new US leader haranguing and hanging up on the close ally.

Rockets were fired at Eritrea’s capital on Saturday, diplomats said, as the deadly fighting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region appeared to spill across an international border and bring some of observers’ worst fears to life.

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