Agencies

Beijing: China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday that it had asked Lithuania to withdraw its ambassador to Beijing after the Baltic state allowed Taiwan to open a de facto embassy there.The ministry further said it would also recall its...

Riga: The Latvian government unanimously supported the introduction of a state of emergency on the border with Belarus to stop the influx of illegal migrants, Interior Minister Marija Golubeva said on Tuesday.The Latvian border security service earlier reported...

Seoul: North Korea snubbed hotline calls from Seoul on Tuesday as South Korea and the United States moved forward with joint military drills, which have long been a bone of contention between the two Korean states, South Korean media...

Seoul: South Korea reported 1,540 more cases of COVID-19 as of midnight Monday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 213,987.The daily caseload was up from 1,492 in the prior day, hovering above 1,000...

Sydney: The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) saw another disastrous day with a record daily high of 356 new local cases and four deaths on Tuesday.What is more concerning is around one third of the new locally...

Rome: An envelope with three bullets, addressed to Pope Francis, was seized by Italian carabinieri at a sorting office near Milan overnight, Italian media reported on Monday.The envelope reportedly arrived in Peschiera Borromeo, a Milan suburb, from France. The...

Moscow: The global temperature has increased by 0.99 degrees Celsius (1.78 degrees Fahrenheit) in the last 20 years, compared with the 1850-1900 period, and will keep rising, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in a report...

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has established its first office in Meghalaya that will begin functioning in the northeastern state from later this week, the central probe agency said on Monday.The new sub-zonal office will be located in capital...

Moscow: At least 21 people have been killed and some 20 more injured in communal riots in the western part of Chad, media reported.The clashes took place on Saturday in the region of Hadjer-Lamis, Al Wihda newspaper reported on...

Cairo: The Taliban Islamist movement (banned in Russia) is warning the United States against any further interference in the Afghan internal affairs, a spokesperson for the movement's Political Office told Al Jazeera broadcaster.On Saturday, US B-52 Stratofortress bombers launched...