India’s Election Commission today ruled out any attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram assembly constituency where she is in fray for the coming polls, sources in the polls body said today.

Myanmar security forces opened fire on anti-coup protesters in the commercial capital Yangon on Sunday, and at least three people were killed, witnesses and domestic media said.

Police in London clashed with mourners and protesters on Saturday after more than a thousand people gathered to mark the killing of a 33-year-old woman, hours after the police officer charged with her murder appeared in court.

Dozens of protesters kicked and threw rocks at a minibus carrying Argentine President Alberto Fernandez as he visited an area devastated by forest fires, TV footage showed.

An An-26 military aircraft flying from the Kazakh capital, Nur-Sultan, crashed while landing in Almaty on Saturday, killing four of six people on board, the Central Asian nation’s emergencies ministry said.

The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay $27 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of George Floyd over his death in police custody, a case

Nigerian security forces stepped up efforts yesterday to rescue dozens of students who were abducted from their hostels in northwestern Kaduna state

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Bolivia’s former interim president Jeanine Anez was arrested yesterday on terrorism and sedition charges over what the government claims was a coup

A powerful car bomb in western Afghanistan killed at least eight people and wounded dozens more, authorities said yesterday, as the United

Foreign ministers in the G7 group of nations including the United States and Britain have expressed grave concerns at what they said was China’s

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Myanmar security forces killed at least 12 people, witnesses and media reported, as the acting leader of a civilian parallel government vowed in a first public address to pursue a “revolution” to overturn the February 1 military coup.

Bitcoin, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency, crossed a record high of $60,000.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern joined hundreds of people in Christchurch to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the country’s worst mass murder.

Sri Lanka will ban the wearing of the burqa and shut more than a thousand Islamic schools, a government minister said, the latest actions affecting the country’s minority Muslim population.

Russian police detained around 150 people at a meeting of independent and opposition politicians in Moscow on Saturday, accusing them of links to an “undesirable organisation”, a monitoring group and a TV station said.

A woman was arrested Thursday on suspicion of pepper-spraying an Uber driver in San Francisco who was coughed at and insulted after he demanded a passenger wear a mask, police announced.

The United States, Australia and Japan will infuse $218 million for manufacture, procurement and last-mile delivery of Covid-19 vaccines to countries in the Indo-Pacific region and decided to work collaboratively to help expand production of safe and effective vaccine at facilities in India.

Americans will see the first direct deposits from President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package hit their bank accounts this weekend, Treasury and Internal Revenue Service officials said on Friday.