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Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has urged U.S. President Joe Biden to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba...

North Korea’s claims regarding a successful test of a hypersonic missile this week “appear exaggerated,’’ the South Korean Defence Ministry...

India’s Federal Health Ministry, on Friday, said all international passengers arriving in the country would have to undergo mandatory seven-day...

A British warship was hit by a Russian submarine while on patrol in the North Atlantic Ocean last year, British...

The president of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, on Friday, issued a shoot-to-kill order against protesters threatening his authoritarian government’s survival. In...

UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) says 55 journalists and media professionals were killed in 2021, noting that impunity...

OPEC Secretary General and Chief Coordinator of the OPEC +, HE Dr Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, left Vienna, Austria this evening...

United States (U.S.) President Joe Biden says the country has given out over 70 million booster shots, urging America residents...

An epidemiologist, Dr Adeola Oludare, says the new Omicron variant is spreading faster than all other variants of COVID-19. Oludare...

French criticism of the possible cooperation between Malian authorities and a private Russian security company not constructive and a reaction...

Mr Mohammad Barkindo, Secretary General, Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), says forecast for demand for OPEC crude in...

Mr Mohammad Barkindo, Secretary General, Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), says the organisation will be in capable hands...

Botswana President, Mokgweetsi Masisi, is in mandatory self-isolation after testing positive for COVID-19 in routine testing, a government spokesperson said...

Eric Adams, the city’s second black mayor and the former Brooklyn borough president, has been sworn in as New York...

World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, has expressed optimism that COVID-19 pandemic will end in 2022. Ghebreyesus said...

Harry Reid, the pugnacious son of a Nevada hard-rock miner who rose from poverty to become the U.S. Senate Majority...

Robert Ford, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, on Wednesday, said the trial of Saddam Hussein and his co-defendants had many...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) will miss its target to vaccinate 40 per cent of the population in every country...

United States (U.S.) President, Joe Biden, and wife, Jill, on Sunday, expressed their condolences over the death of South African...

President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Abdulla Shahid, has expressed heartfelt condolences to the government and people of...