The Taliban's claim to hold 90 percent of Afghanistan's borders is an "absolute lie", the defence ministry said Friday, insisting government forces were in control of the country's frontiers."It is ba
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French Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed that the country is now in its fourth wave of COVID-19."We are in the fourth wave," Castex told TF1 news. "The infamous Delta variant is here, it is here,
Read MoreWe support India’s bid to the UN Security Council as a permanent member: UNGA President-elect Abdullah Shahid
President-elect of the United Nations General Assembly and the current Maldives Foreign Minister Abdullah Shahid on Thursday called publicly supported India’s bid for a seat at the United Nations Secu
Read MoreMyanmar politician Nyan Win, a senior adviser to ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, died in hospital on Tuesday after becoming infected with COVID-19 in jail, his party said, as the Southeast Asian coun
Read MoreCOVID-19 origin: China rejects WHO plan for study, says ‘it disregards common sense and defies science
China rejected on a World Health Organization (WHO) plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which includes the hypothesis it could have escaped from a Chinese
Read MoreBillionaire and long-time ally of former US President Donald Trump -- Thomas J Barrack -- has been arrested in Los Angeles for allegedly acting as an agent of a foreign government.The 74-year-old inve
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