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Bogota: The death toll from the landslide that buried several vehicles including a bus on a Colombian highway climbed to 34 as rescue efforts ended, local media reported.The landslide hit the Pereira-Quibdo Highway in the western-central department of Risaralda...

Colombo:Sri Lanka's health ministry on Wednesday said it removed Covid-19 restrictions that were in place on passengers arriving from overseas.The ministry said in a statement that the requirement to produce a Covid-19 vaccination certificate by any person arriving from...

Jakarta:Two people were killed and nine others injured after a suicide bombing occurred at a police station in Bandung city, the capital of Indonesia's West Java province, on Wednesday morning, police said.The casualties include the suicide bomber and one...

Beijing: Australia should adhere to the internationally recognized one-China principle and stop sending misleading signals to "separatist forces" on the island of Taiwan, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said on Tuesday."The Australian side should earnestly adhere to the...

Washington: White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declared Monday that the revelations showing high-level collusion between Twitter officials and the Biden administration are not healthy."What is happening" on Twitter is "frankly… not healthy," Jean-Pierre said. "It won't do anything...

Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan: Seven commuters have been confirmed dead and six others injured as a blast struck a bus of government employees in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province on Tuesday, provincial police spokesman Mohammad Asif Waziri said."Obviously it...

Jakarta: A 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia's western province of East Java on Tuesday, but did not cause a tsunami, the meteorological, climatological and geophysical agency said.The earthquake occurred at 1:07 pm Jakarta time (0607 GMT) with the epicenter situated...

Colombo: Sri Lanka has to build a new economy to forge ahead and there is no question of reforms because an economy does not even exist, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said in remarks published on Tuesday.The Daily Mirror quoted Wickremesinghe...

Buenos Aires: The number of coronavirus cases has increased sharply over the past week in Argentina, according to data from the country's Ministry of Health.In the previous week, Argentina reported a total of 12,609 confirmed COVID-19 cases, which is...

Seoul: North Korea fired about 130 artillery shells towards the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea, which violates the 2018 inter-Korean military agreement on reducing tensions in border zones, the Yonhap news agency reported on Monday, citing the...