A helicopter carrying India’s defence chief General Bipin Rawat has crashed in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, killing at least four people, according to media reports. India’s public broadcaster...

At least four people have been killed and four others wounded in an explosion that rocked the centre of Iraq’s southern city of Basra, the Iraqi military has said. In a statement on Tuesday, the military...

The United Arab Emirates has said all government entities will adopt a new working-week schedule that will consist of four and half days, with Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday forming the new weekend. The...

The US has announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in China – a move that has been heavily criticised by Beijing. The White House said no official delegation would be sent to the...

A court in Myanmar has sentenced the country’s deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in jail. She was found guilty on charges of inciting dissent and breaking Covid rules under a natural disasters...

Adama Barrow was on Sunday declared the victor of The Gambia’s presidential election by the electoral commission, winning a second term in office. Mr Barrow, who contested the election under the...

Saudi Arabia has confirmed its first case of the new Omicron COVID-19 variant. Saudi’s state-run SPA quoted a source from the health ministry as saying the infected individual – a Saudi national who...

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has stepped down from his executive role at the social media company. Dorsey will be replaced by Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Parag Agrawal, the company announced on Monday. The...

China’s President Xi Jinping on Monday pledged to offer one billion Covid vaccine doses to Africa, in a speech made via videolink to a China-Africa summit near Senegal’s capital Dakar. The...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated a new coronavirus strain detected in South Africa as a “variant of concern”, prompting countries around the world to impose travel restrictions amid...

Asian and European countries tightened travel restrictions on Friday after a new and possibly vaccine-resistant coronavirus variant was detected in South Africa, with the EU and India announcing stricter...

The United Kingdom said on Friday that a newly identified coronavirus variant spreading in South Africa was of huge concern and was considered by scientists to be the most significant one yet found as...

Sudan’s military reinstated Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Sunday and promised to release all political detainees after weeks of deadly unrest triggered by a coup, although large crowds took to...

Schools were closed indefinitely and some coal-based power plants shut down as the smog-shrouded Indian capital and neighboring states invoked harsh measures Wednesday amid considerations of a lockdown...

Pfizer announced a deal on Tuesday to allow its promising Covid-19 treatment to be made and sold inexpensively in 95 poorer nations that are home to more than half of the world’s population. The agreement...

“Two suicide bombers were clearly captured (by security cameras) on motorcycles, two motorcycles. They were disguised as boda boda riders (motorcycle taxi drivers). They detonated the bombs they...

United States President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping held virtual talks on Monday amid mounting tensions between Washington and Beijing. Taiwan was high on the agenda, with Xi warning...

South Africa’s last white president, Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk, died on Thursday leaving a final apology via video for crimes against other ethnic groups during decades of apartheid. “I,...

Thousands of demonstrators marched on the New Zealand parliament to protest against Covid-19 restrictions Tuesday, prompting a major police deployment at the Wellington building known as the Beehive. About...

The World Health Organization on Wednesday issued an emergency use listing for the India-made Covaxin vaccine, in a move expected to increase Covid-19 jabs available in poor countries. The vaccine, made...