
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday strongly condemned Thursday's deadly terrorist attack on a UN-affiliated convoy in front of a school in Mogadishu, Somalia, said his deputy spokesman....

The pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech on Saturday issued a statement stating that they are not sure whether their vaccines would be able to help in the treatment of the new COVID-19 variant 'Omicron'....

Amid the deteriorating relations between Washington and Beijing, two US lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill earlier this week, which seeks to help Taiwan develop ties with other countries amid China's coercive actions designed to isolate the country....

US health regulators are expected to make public a staff review about the Covid-19 pill molnupiravir from Merck and Co and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP, with an analysis of clinical-trial data for the drug included, according to The Wall Street Journal. ...

US President Joe Biden has announced that the US will impose travel restrictions on eight African countries as a new variant of the coronavirus has been detected on the continent....

UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid sounded an alarm over the new 'worst-ever' super-mutant Covid variant that will make vaccines at least 40 per cent less effective, forcing flights to be banned from South Africa and five other countries, the Daily Mail reported....

Two more "smash-and-grab" robberies hit upscale department stores in California, adding to a series of similar crimes in the US state....

In a recent exchange with a leading publisher of an ethnic Indian newspaper, I had inquired why he hasn't carried a news item on the Indian Americans protesting before the United Nations where Prime Minister Modi was addressing the General Assembly....

The global coronavirus caseload has topped 259.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.18 million and vaccinations to over 7.52 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. ...

As 13th anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack rolls around, Tahawwur Hussain Rana...