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The Moscow City Court on Wednesday was considering a request by prosecutors to disband organizations linked to jailed Russian opposition figure Alexei...

Male [Maldives]: The Maldives on Monday won the election to the post of the President of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (PGA),...

Widespread flooding in the south and east of Sri Lanka has forced thousands to leave their homes and killed at least 17 people, officials said on...

Moscow: Russia has banned individuals designated as "extremists" from running for public offices, a move condemned by the opposition as an effort to further...

Washington: A Chinese virologist, who was among the first to suggest the COVID-19 virus leaked from a Wuhan lab, said that US top coronavirus advisor...

Muscat: The World Health Organisation has confirmed that no new strain of the Coronavirus has been discovered in Vietnam."The World Health Organisation...

Tokyo: The Group of Seven (G7), consisting of the world's leading economies, is expected to pledge support to Japan's efforts in organizing and carrying out...

Ankara: In a bid to curb Covid-19 spread, Turkey has made mandatory 14 days of institutional quarantine for passengers from eight countries including...

Hanoi: Vietnam's 'very dangerous' new COVID-19 hybrid variant may be fuelling its worst outbreak so far as it is replicating quickly.On Saturday, the...

Berlin: According to genome databases, such as nextstrain.org, there are now more than 1,000 known variants of the SARS CoV-2 virus.