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CANBERRA: Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape received the first Covid-19 shot in the Pacific Island country on Tuesday under a sma...

KATHMANDU: Nepal has ordered schools to close for four days after air pollution climbed to hazardous levels, forcing millions of students to...

STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s health agency said on Tuesday it had asked the government to postpone a planned easing of some restrictions aimed at slo...

HANOI: A court in Vietnam on Tuesday sentenced a Facebook user to 10 years in prison after finding him guilty of spreading “anti-state propa...

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s influential sister slammed the South’s president Tuesday as “a parrot raised by America” after he c...

MINNEAPOLIS: A professional mixed martial arts fighter who witnessed the deadly arrest of George Floyd in Minneapolis last May is due to ret...

HANOI: A court in Vietnam handed a two-year suspended jail term to a Vietnam Airlines flight attendant on Tuesday after finding him guilty o...

TOKYO: A Tokyo restaurant operator suing the city for mandating shorter business hours decried the “hypocrisy” of health officials who flout...

YANGON: The death toll in the Myanmar military's crackdown on protesters has passed 500, as armed rebel groups on Tuesday threatened the jun...

PORT MACQUARIE: For Carol Curry, manager of the Marina Holiday Park, 330 km (205 miles) north of Sydney, the Easter long weekend and school...

AFTER weeks of anticipation, the fourth instalment to Legendary’s MonsterVerse has finally hit theatres worldwide. Directed by Adam Wingard,...

IN high school, he was passionate about photography and was equipped with leadership skills. At 18, he started travelling and shared his exp...

WHEN Mufizal Mokhtar was young, he would be the one who drew on walls and took plasticine from other kids who were making small animals, and...

SYDNEY: Australia reported eight new locally acquired Covid-19 cases in Queensland today and authorities warned more could emerge as the sta...

OTTAWA/TORONTO: Canadian health officials said on Monday they would stop offering AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine to people under age 55 and...

NEW YORK: The Covid-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer Inc with BioNTech SE and Moderna Inc are highly effective and reduced the risk of infect...

BRUSSELS: Leaders of 23 countries and the World Health Organisation on Tuesday backed an idea to create an international treaty that would h...

BANGKOK: Thai police on Monday vowed to arrest more people participating in anti-government protests after detaining nearly 100 at a demonst...

MANILA: The Philippine passed the 10,000 mark for new daily coronavirus infections for the first time on Monday and put its capital region b...

NEW DELHI: India reported the highest daily increase in coronavirus cases in five months on Monday, with the second wave of the disease driv...

BEIJING: China’s capital Beijing has launched a month-long campaign to stamp out air pollution violations, the official Xinhua news agency r...

Myanmar security forces killed three people in the main city of Yangon on Monday, witnesses and media reported, as activists called on ethni...

GENEVA: An international expert mission to Wuhan has concluded it was very likely that Covid-19 first passed to humans from a bat through an...

TOKYO: Japan’s vaccine minister, Taro Kono, said on Monday that the pace of coronavirus inoculation in the country would accelerate in May,...

JAKARTA: Indonesian police found explosives on Monday in a raid outside the capital city Jakarta related to Sunday’s suicide attack on a cat...