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Islamabad: Pakistan's media bodies have urged the governments not to use advertising as a tool to curb the freedom of the press.According to a report by The News International, the media organisations including All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS),...

Port-au-Prince: Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced members of his new Cabinet, four months after he took the leadership of the country following the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise."One of the main tasks of this government is to...

Berlin: The number of people, who have died of the coronavirus in Germany has surpassed 100,000, the Robert Koch Institute said.Over the past 24 hours, the death toll has risen by 351 to 100,119 people, while the number of...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia reported another 5,755 new Covid-19 infections, as of midnight Wednesday, bringing the national total to 2,602,835, according to the health ministry.Some 23 of the new cases are imported, with 5,732 being local transmissions, data released on...

Washington: The United States has blacklisted 27 foreign entities, including 12 from China, over national security concerns, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) said on Wednesday."In this final rule, the BIS amends the Export Administration Regulations...

Cairo, Nov: Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit on Wednesday welcomed the political agreement signed between Chairman of Sudan's Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok to end the month-old political crisis in the country.Aboul-Gheit, in a...

Paris: Albert Einstein's manuscript on the theory of relativity, written together with his colleague Michele Besso, was sold at the Christie's auction in Paris for 13.3 million euros (around $15 million), Christie's auction house said.The manuscript is 54 pages...

Zurich: The Swedish unicameral parliament Riksdag on Wednesday voted to appoint the leader of the Social Democratic Labor Party of Sweden, Magdalena Andersson, as the Prime Minister, becoming the first woman in the country's history to take office.Andersson's...

Washington: The US has not taken a call yet on a waiver for India under the CAATSA sanctions over New Delhi’s purchase of S-400 Triumf missiles from Russia, the Biden administration has said.The comments come as Russia has announced...

Tehran: Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are dealing with "technical issues" of the Iranian nuclear program, Mohammad Eslami, chief of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, announced on Tuesday."The important point for us and the IAEA...