Hong Kong, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) is preparing to consolidate all flights into the main terminal building, and close a newer concourse that sits between the two runways, as passenger…
Dubai, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) A young engineer from India who fell to his death from a residential tower in Dubai earlier this week, committed suicide, a police official said here. On Thursday, Brigadier Saeed Bin…
Dubai, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) An Indian couple based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has donated their late daughter’s kidney to a seven-old-year boy who had been on dialysis for the last five years, a…
Kathmandu, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Gokul Baskota, a close aide of Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and also the Communications Minister, has resigned following the release of an audio recording of him allegedly negotiating a…
Colombo, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Chinese workers in Sri Lanka, who were subjected to a 14-day quarantine amidst fears of the novel coronavirus, have resumed work this week, a media report said on Friday. Work at…
Colombo, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) A Sri Lankan Parliament committee on national security has proposed the immediate ban on the burqa and also suspend registration of political parties on ethnic and religious basis, the media reported….
Tehran, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was among the first to cast his ballot in the country’s 11th parliamentary elections on Friday, for which voting was underway nationwide. Speaking after casting…
Beijing, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) The novel coronavirus outbreak is under control and the general situation is improving after no new cases were registered in 14 of Chinas 34 provinces and autonomous regions, a top health…
Hanoi, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Vietnamese authorities have charged seven people in connection with the deaths of 39 citizens, who were found dead in a refrigerated lorry in the UK’s Essex county last year, police said….
Islamabad, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) An effort made by the Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) to end the standoff at Islamabad’s famous Red Mosque has remained fruitless as cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz refused to accept the legal…
Wuhan, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Peng Yinhua, a doctor from a Wuhan hospital that receives patients infected with the deadly coronavirus, has died from the virus, authorities said on Friday. Peng, 29, a respiratory acute care…
Kabul, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) The release of Taliban prisoners before the start of intra-Afghan talks was not possible, although the topic will be one of the main focus points during the discussions, a government spokesman…
Tehran, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Iranians on Friday voted in the country’s 11th parliamentary elections. Polling stations across the country opened at 8 a.m., reports Press TV. Campaigns officially started on February 13 and the candidates…
Seoul, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) South Korea on Friday declared Daegu and Cheongdo “special care zones” following the sudden spike in coronavirus infections in the two southeastern cities in the last two days. On Thursday, South…
Vatican City, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Vatican is set to open archives on controversial Pope Pius XII, who been accused of not doing enough to protect Jews during the rise of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany…
Madrid, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) A senior US diplomat said here that European nations and telecom operators should exclude Chinese tech giant Huawei from any involvement in the development of 5G networks. “That 5G toolbox for…
Canberra, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Two Australians evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which has been quarantined in a port in Japan, have contracted the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19), a health official said here on Friday….
Washington, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) At a campaign rally in Colorado, US President Donald Trump slammed the Oscars for giving the best picture award to the South Korean film “Parasite”, and also took aim at Hollywood…
Geneva, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that preliminary results from clinical trials of therapeutics against COVID-19 were expected in three weeks. “We’re also looking forward to results from two clinical…
Washington, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Roger Stone, US President Donald Trump’s longtime confidant, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for lying to Congress and witness tampering during former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe….