International

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…

BRAZIL: Most of us have our mobile phones attached to our bodies like an extra limb. While we have all been told to get off the phone and reduce screen time at least once in our lives, it is holding onto the phone that saved a…

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…

China is preparing to test tens of thousands of blood bank samples from the city of Wuhan as part of a probe into the origins of Covid-19, according to a Chinese official. The move comes amid increasing calls for transparency over the…

UN: Warning that Afghanistan is facing “a make-or-break moment,” the United Nations chief on Monday urged the world to prevent the country’s economy from collapsing. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also appealed to the Taliban…