Agencies

Seoul: The South Korean health authorities have been allowed to immunize those aged 30 and over with the unused shots of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said on Friday.Such citizens will be able...

Geneva: Switzerland has reduced the number of employees in Afghanistan by half to just three amid the escalation of violence in the country, and intends to evacuate them soon, Elisa Raggi, a spokeswoman for the Swiss Federal Department for...

Toronto: Canada will resettle up to 20,000 vulnerable Afghan nationals including female activists and journalists as the Taliban terror group (banned in Russia) advances in its bid to reclaim control of the war-torn country, Ottawa announced."Canada will build on...

Washington: The United States along with several other countries began fast-tracking evacuations of civilians from Afghanistan amid rapid gains by the Taliban (banned in Russia), while the UN urged the insurgents to halt their offensive with the country descending...

Tokyo: Japan has ordered the evacuation of 1.23 million people in four southwestern provinces over the heavy rainfall, media reported on Saturday.The evacuation was ordered for residents of the prefectures of Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the NHK broadcaster...

Beijing: The Chinese mainland on Friday reported 30 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, including 18 in Jiangsu Province, four each in Henan and Hubei, three in Hunan, and one in Yunnan, the National Health Commission said in its daily...

Islamabad: To strengthen its campaign against the alarming spike in the COVID-19 spread in the country, Bangladesh has planned to sign an agreement with China for vaccine co-production, reported Pakistani daily The Nation, citing Bangladeshi Foreign Minister AK Abdul...

Geneva: Seven-time reigning Olympic champions the United States strengthened their grip on the top position of the FIBA women's world ranking, while Asian sides China and Japan both broke into the top eight.As the world ranking has been updated...

New Delhi: From urging parliamentarians to use their air travel benefits instead of charging the party, to donating ₹ 50,000 a year to the party's coffers, the opposition Congress party has announced a range of measures to cut costs...

London: UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said Friday that every option would be on the table if Afghan militants were to harbour the al-Qaeda terror group in their country.A military solution, however, would not solve the Central Asian nation's...