International

AFGHANISTAN: Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi has appealed to the world for good relations but avoided making firm commitments on girls’ education, despite international demands to allow all Afghan…

NORWAY: A 37-year-old man was charged Thursday in connection with a bow-and-arrow rampage in a small town in Norway that killed five people, and police said they had been in contact with him in the past over concerns that he had been…

US: Mixing COVID-19 vaccines produces as much or more antibodies as using the same shot as a booster, according to preliminary results of a widely awaited US government-sponsored trial. The trial is the first major US study to…

SWITZERLAND: Tuberculosis (TB) is on the rise again globally for the first time in a decade, linked to disruptions in access to healthcare because of the Covid pandemic, the World Health Orgnization said Thursday. The setback has…

US: Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Centre’s intensive care unit for a urinary tract infection that spread to his bloodstream, his doctors told CNN on Thursday. “He was…

LEBANON: Armed clashes erupted on Thursday in Beirut during a protest organised by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and its allies against the lead judge probing last year’s blast in the city’s port. At least six people were…

INDIA: An Indian man who used a cobra and a viper to murder his wife has been handed a double life sentence in what prosecutors have called the “rarest of rare” cases. Sooraj Kumar, 28, set loose a highly venomous Russell’s viper…

It is “quite possible” that the WTI Crude Oil prices reach US$ 100 per barrel in light of growing global demand for energy commodities, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on a CNBC Panel at the Russian Energy Week on Wednesday.…

Rising prices, product shortages and labor market tumult are making for a surprisingly rocky economic recovery, testing the political skills of the Biden White House little more than one year before the midterm congressional elections.…

The Biden administration announced on Thursday a plan to develop large-scale wind farms along nearly the entire coastline of the United States, the first long-term strategy from the government to produce electricity from offshore…