Suva, March 1 (IANS) A team of doctors from India has successfully performed 16 open-heart surgeries at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Fiji’s capital city of Suva, a media report said. The surgeries were…
Beijing, March 1 (IANS) The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened 67 basis points to 6.5385 against the US dollar on Tuesday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading…
Montevideo, March 1 (IANS) Newly-elected FIFA president Gianni Infantino will visit Uruguay in March, the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) announced on Monday. “Today it was confirmed by telephone that on (March) 29 he (Infantino) will…
Geneva, March 1 (IANS) 1,500-meter world champion Abeba Aregawi was tested positive for a banned substance and has been suspended pending an investigation, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and Swedish track and field…
United Nations, March 1 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday condemned the recent terrorist attacks in Iraq’s Baghdad and eastern town of Muqdadiya which are claimed by the extremist group Islamic State (IS). Earlier…
Washington, March 1 (IANS) US stocks ended lower on Monday after volatile trading, as China’s central bank announced a cut in its reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for commercial banks by 0.5 percentage points. The Dow…
Washington, March 1 (IANS) The Pentagon announced on Monday it was waging cyber attacks against the extremist group the Islamic State(IS) apart from airstrikes and occasional ground missions. “We are also using cyber tools to…
London, March 1 (IANS) London mayor Boris Johnson on Monday slammed Britain’s pro-EU campaigners for fear-mongering, saying the risks of a Brexit had been “wildly exaggerated”, Xinhua reported. Writing in a column for the Daily…
Baghdad, March 1 (IANS) The death toll from Monday’s suicide bombing attack at a funeral in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala rose to 34, a provincial security source said. The deceased include seven Shiite militia…
Geneva, March 1 (IANS) A joint statement by the BRICS countries issued here on Monday emphasised that the right to development should be central to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The joint statement by…
Mogadishu, March 1 (IANS) Somalia’s security forces on Monday arrested six Al-Shabaab suspects in connection with the twin blast in the Baidoa town in south-Somalia’s central Bay region. Abdullahi Ali Watin, District Commissioner of Baidoa…
Islamabad, March 1 (IANS) At least 12 militants were killed and six others injured on Monday when Pakistani army launched an aerial and ground offensives in the country’s northwest tribal region of North Waziristan. The…
Ankara, March 1 (IANS) The Turkish artillery forces has hit the Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria on Monday. Sixty artillery rounds were reportedly fired by the military on the IS targets in the north…
Rome, Feb 29 (IANS/AKI) A woman died in northwest Italy when a slab of ice and rocks than fell from a roof, bringing to at least six the number of people killed in severe storms…
Tehran, Feb 29 (IANS) Vote counts on Iran’s two key elections – to the parliament and the Assembly of Experts – ended on Monday, Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli announced. “The turnout was around…
Baghdad, Feb 29 (IANS) At least 17 people were killed and 41 others were injured on Monday in a suicide bomb attack in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, a provincial security source told Xinhua. The…
Islamabad, Feb 29 (IANS) At least one officer was killed as a helicopter of Pakistan army crashed in Haripur district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Monday evening, the military said. A statement from the Inter Services Public…
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. (File Photo: Xinhua/PID/IANS) Islamabad, Feb 29 (IANS) A new book has claimed that Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif received money from Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The book “Khalid Khawaja:…
Pope Francis waves upon his arrival to Cathedral in Santiago, Cuba, 22 September 2015. Pope Francis’s first visit to Cuba ended with a mass in Santiago. The pope delivered the last sermon of his Cuban…
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Japanese nationals visiting India will start getting visa on arrival from March 1, it was announced on Monday. “As announced by Prime Minister (Narendra Modi), the visa on arrival for…