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Biden visiting storm-ravaged Kentucky to offer aid support

For the fifth time since taking office less than a year ago, President Joe Biden is taking on the grim task Wednesday of visiting an area…

BlinkenBlinken cuts short Asia trip due to COVID-19 case in delegation cuts short Asia trip due to COVID-19 case in delegation

KUALA LUMPUR: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday (Dec 15) cut short a trip to Southeast Asia after a member of his delegation contracted…

Hong Kong fire traps 150 people on roof of 39-storey World Trade Centre

HONG KONG: A fire broke out on Wednesday (Dec 15) in Hong Kong's World Trade Centre, trapping about 150 people on its roof. Thirteen people…

Religious minorities in Pakistan have long faced discrimination: US Ambassador-designate

Washington (US): The US Ambassador-designate to Pakistan, Donald Armin Blome, on Tuesday (US local time) said that he will push Islamabad to target…

Omicron spreading at a rate world has not seen with any previous variant warns WHO

New Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that Omicron is spreading at a rate that the world has not seen with any previous COVID-19…

UK Supreme Court rules against gender-neutral passports

A British activist has lost a legal challenge to the government’s policy of not allowing gender-neutral passports.

Christie Elan-Cane…

Lithuania pulls last diplomat from China amid dispute over Taiwan relations

Lithuania says it has closed its Chinese embassy and pulled its last diplomat out of Beijing in a dispute over relations with Taiwan.

The foreign…

Blind mans bluff: Italian police catch visually-impaired fraudster on scooter

An Italian man, who allegedly claimed he was blind to receive years of financial benefits, has been caught riding a scooter.

Police said they…