Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet huddled on Wednesday to approve a massive relief package to rebuild German regions destroyed by devastating floods and to rebuild the cities.  A week into the region's worst flooding disaster in living memory, which has killed at least 169 people in Germany and 200 in Europe, the...

The city of Zhengzhou in Central China's Henan Province has recorded the heaviest rainfall in 60 years in what has been claimed to be a once-in-a-lifetime event. At least 12 people have died in severe flooding in a Chinese provincial capital that trapped people in subways and schools, washed...

Kathmandu: A reputed freelance journalist has been arrested after taking and sharing photographs of activists protesting against the conditions in a controversial military camp housing hundreds of asylum seekers in Kent. Freelance photographer Andy Aitchison, 46, attended a demonstration outside Napier Barracks, in Folkestone, on Thursday morning and took photos as...

Kathmandu: COVID-19 may damage sperm quality and reduce fertility in men, according to a new study based on experimental evidence. The viral disease - which has swept the globe, claiming nearly 2.2 million lives - can cause increased sperm cell death, inflammation, and so-called oxidative stress, researchers reported on Friday (Jan...

Kathmandu: The Novavax jab is the first to show it is effective against the new variant of the virus discovered in the UK, the BBC's medical editor Fergus Walsh said. The PM welcomed the "good news" and said the UK's medicines regulator would now assess the vaccine. The UK has secured 60...

Kathmandu: The U.S. has reaffirmed support for Taiwan following China’s dispatch of warplanes near the island in an apparent attempt to intimidate its democratic government and test American resolve. The State Department on Saturday said it “notes with concern the pattern of ongoing (China's) attempts to intimidate its neighbors, including Taiwan.” “We...

Kathmandu: The five new countries have joined the U.N. Security Council on Monday. The new countries will hold non-permanent seats on the 15-member council for two years. Five new countries are India, Mexico, Norway, Ireland, and Kenya — formally joined the U.N. Security Council on Monday at a time of growing...

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) vice Minister for International Affairs Guo Yezhou's team meets with opposition Nepali congress chairman Sher Bahadur Deuba at Deuba's residence Budanilkatha on Tuesday morning.  Former minister Narayan Khadka and foreign scholar Dinesh Chandra Bhattarai were also present at the meeting.  According to Bhattarai, "the meeting was...

KATHMANDU: A high-level delegation led by the vice-minister of the Communist Party of China. The visiting Vice Minister of the International Department of Communist Party of China (CPC) Guo Yezhou is in the run of having a meeting with the country's first man to NCP top leaders and opposition parties...

Tehran: More than 10 climbers have died and several more are missing in mountains north of Iran’s capital Tehran after a heavy snowfall, state media reported on Saturday, and seven crew members of a ship were also missing after storms in the Gulf. Heavy snow and winds in several parts of...

Some of the countries in the world have started the mass vaccination programme to protect people from the coronavirus which has killed more than 1.73 million people globally and infected 78 million people since late December last year. Earlier this month, the United Kingdom became the first country in the world...

Kathmandu: "Rosemary Vrablic and Dominic Scalzi have tendered their resignations to Deutsche Bank effective as of year-end, which was accepted by the bank," Daniel Hunter, a spokesman for the bank said in a statement. They have worked closely together for years since joining Deutsche Bank...

Kathmandu: Chile's Army says that 58 people that were at two military bases in Antarctica tested positive for the new coronavirus. Luckily, no other country with a presence in Antarctica has publicly reported any other cases. Chile's army announced on Monday that 36 people at the...

Scotland has become the first country in the world to provide free and universal access to period products after as on Tuesday the period product act was passed through its final stage.  A four-year campaign that has fundamentally shifted the public discourse around menstruation. The campaign – bolstered by nationwide grassroots support...

WASHINGTON, November 24: Incumbent US President Donald Trump has recommended General Services Administration chief Emily Murphy and members of his administration to "do what needs to be done" on initial procedures on power transition. Thus, the Republican in fact ordered to launch the transfer of power to Biden. "I am recommending...

Kabul: Several rockets hit residential areas in the early rush hour in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, killing at least three civilians and wounding a dozen more, police officials said. The explosions, close to the diplomatic enclave, sent warning sirens blaring from embassies and it comes two days before a...

In a recent tweets Trump claims that 221,000 votes of Ennsylvania where switch to Biden and alll together 941,000 trum's votes were deleted. He further says it is the further finding from data analysis.  He also claims that 435,000 votes were switch to Biden from Trump votes from the dominion voting...

Agency: Bahrain’s Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, one of the world’s longest-serving prime ministers who led his island nation’s government for decades and survived the 2011 Arab Spring protests that demanded his ouster over corruption allegations, died on Wednesday. He was 84. Bahrain's state-run news agency announced his death,...

Dubai: The first flight carrying Israeli tourists to the United Arab Emirates landed on Sunday in the city-state of Dubai, the latest sign of the normalisation deal reached between the two nations. FlyDubai flight No. FZ8194 landed at the Dubai International Airport just after 5:40 p.m., bringing the tourists to the...

Taipei, Nov. 6: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 on the Richter scale occurred in eastern Taiwan at 9:40 a.m. Friday, according to the Central Weather Bureau. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The epicenter of the temblor was located at sea, about 107.8 kilometers northeast of Taitung...

Moscow, Nov-6:  Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has refuted the article published by the British tabloid The Sun, which claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to resign due to health problems. Peskov assured that Putin has no such plans, and that he is in excellent health. "No," the spokesman said in...

Several US TV networks late on Thursday halted live coverage of US President Donald Trump’s first public appearance since election night after concluding that the president was spreading disinformation. Trump unleashed a flood of incendiary and unsubstantiated claims in a 17-minute address, insisting that Democrats were using “illegal votes” to “steal...

The number of coronavirus infections worldwide has surpassed 48 mln on Thursday, the data on the American Johns Hopkins University said which calculates the total based on the information from the international organizations, federal and local authorities. According to the university, the number of infections currently is at 48,005,784, with 1,224,111...

The move comes amid the govt.’s assurance to provide funds to aid businesses crippled by the latest closures.Italian regions are being put under “red-zone” lockdown, with severe limits imposed on the circumstances under which people can leave home, Premier Giuseppe Conte announced on Wednesday night. What he called “very stringent”...

Joe Biden has overtaken Donald Trump in Wisconsin, as the state’s voting count reaches 96 per cent. The Democratic presidential candidate now leads in the state by almost 8,000 votes. ...

Donald Trump declared victory in his fight for a second term against former Vice President Joe Biden, saying he is poised to ask the Supreme Court to halt all vote-counting even as ballots remain untallied. “Millions of people voted for us tonight. A very sad group of people is trying to...

The Vienna gunman who killed four and wounded 17 last night  was nuetralized at 8:09 PM. He was released early from prison on terror charges because of his age. Twenty-year-old Kujtim Fejzulai was jailed in April 2019 because he wanted to travel to Syria to join ISIS, but he was granted...

President Donald Trump again questions the integrity of the election process; both campaigns have readied armies of lawyersMore than 95 million Americans had cast their votes in the 2020 presidential election by Monday, according to a tally by the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida, a harbinger...

Manila: At least ten people have died in a devastating super typhoon that wreaked havoc in the Philippines, bringing 174 mile-per-hour winds triggering volcanic mudflows that engulfed some 150 houses. Typhoon Goni - one of the most powerful typhoons in the world this year - blasted into the eastern island province...

Pennsylvania: A US judge in Pennsylvania blocked a US Commerce Department order set to take effect on November 12 that would have effectively banned Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok from operating in the United States on Friday. US District Court Judge Wendy Beetlestone enjoined the Commerce Department from barring data hosting...

 November 2: The death toll of the earthquake that happened in Turkey’s Izmir has reached 76, the Turkish emergency Directorate reported on Monday. "A total of 76 our citizens have died; 743 people out of 962 injured have been released, 219 people remain in hospitals," the Directorate said. Previously, the Directorate reported...

Geneva: The World Health Organization chief said late Sunday (Nov 1) that he was self-quarantining after someone he had been in contact with tested positive for COVID-19, but stressed he had no symptoms. "I have been identified as a contact of someone who has tested positive for #COVID19," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus...

MANILA, Philippines — Typhoon Rolly made its third landfall in the vicinity of San Narciso, Quezon at 12:00 p.m. Sunday, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) reported. BREAKING NEWS: Sa ika-apat na pagkakataon, Bagyong #RollyPH, naglandfall na sa Lobo, Batangas kaninang 5:30 PM, ayon...

IZMIR: A 70-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of a flattened building in western Turkey early on Sunday after being buried under the debris for 33 hours following a powerful earthquake which struck the country’s Aegean coast and Greek islands. The death toll from Friday afternoon’s quake rose to 51....

A typhoon has hit into the eastern Philippines bringing “catastrophic” winds and intense rains as about a million people were evacuated in its projected path including in the capital, Manila, where the main international airport was ordered closed. “There are so many people who are really in vulnerable areas,” Ricardo Jalad,...

ANKARA, November 1: The number of people killed in a powerful earthquake that hit Turkey’s Izmir region has risen to 43, the Turkish emergency agency said in a statement. "Forty-three people lost their lives," the statement reads. According to the agency, 896 people suffered injuries. The 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off Turkey's...

The United States has appointed a senior human rights official as a special coordinator for Tibetan issues, amid increasingly tense relations between Washington and Beijing. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday that Robert Destro, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor, would assume the additional...

NEW YORK, September 13:  At least 28 people were killed in wildfires raging in western US states, CNN reported. The majority of deaths were registered in California, where, according to CNN, 19 people have died. Most of the fatalities occurred in the past few days. In total, more than 100 wildfires are...

India's total cases of the novel coronavirus crossed 4.2 million on Monday, overtaking Brazil as the second-worst-hit country after the United States. The federal government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given states more freedom to reopen their economies after a three-month shutdown that saw unemployment surge and growth...

NEW YORK: The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will open its high-profile general debate on September 22, which would also be addressed by Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan, on September 25, and the other world leaders, according to an initial list of speakers released at the UN headquarters on...

Earlier, Mr. Mukherjee’s mortal remains were placed at his residence in 10 Rajaji Marg to enable dignitaries and the general public to pay their last respects. President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid their last respects.“Paid tributes to respected Shri Pranab Mukherjee. He would be remembered...

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Thursday that Beijing fired one intermediate-range ballistic missile, DF-26B, from Qinghai Province and another medium-range ballistic missile, DF-21D, from Zhejiang Province on Wednesday in response to US aerial activities in a "no-fly zone" area. In response, Mark Esper, the US defense chief,...

Israel said it carried out air attacks on Hezbollah observation posts in Lebanon on Wednesday after shots were fired from across the border towards its troops the previous evening. The country's military had said earlier that a "security incident" was unfolding in the vicinity of Manara near the UN-demarcated Blue Line...

Earlier this month, Trump issued an executive order that prohibits any US-based company to conduct transactions with the app after mid-September. That means any firm interesting in buying TikTok — like Mircosoft or Oracle — will need to finish the deal before the 45-day deadline ends. Popular short video app TikTok...

. In the tweet, posted on Monday, Trump claimed mail drop boxes are a “voter security disaster” and also said they are “not COVID sanitized.” Twitter’s notice says that the tweet violates its rules about civic and election integrity, but it “determined it may be in the public’s interest for the...

(Reuters) - Democrats formally nominated Joe Biden for president on Tuesday, vowing his election would repair a pandemic-battered America and put an end to the chaos that has defined Republican President Donald Trump’s administration. The second night of the party’s four-night national convention, under the theme “Leadership Matters,” featured elder...

A press release issued by the NRNA from London said it recorded zero death of Nepalis living abroad in the past week. The number of Nepalis diagnosed with COVID-19 in foreign countries has also gone down significantly in recent days. According to a tally of fatalities and infections compiled by...

Beirut: Lebanese protesters stormed government ministries in Beirut and trashed the offices of the Association of Lebanese Banks on Saturday as shots rang out in increasingly angry demonstrations over this week's devastating explosion. The protesters said their politicians should resign and be punished for negligence they say led to Tuesday's blast,...

SEOUL (Reuters) - The Red Cross has sent more than 43,000 volunteers to North Korea, including to the locked-down city of Kaesong, to help fight the novel coronavirus and provide flood assistance, an official with the relief organization said on Monday. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un declared an emergency last month...

As many as 18 people were killed in the Air India Express flight crash at Kerala’s Kozhikode airport on Friday after the plane skidded off the runway and fell into a 35-feet valley before splitting. The pilot-in-command Captain Deepak Sathe and his co-pilot Akhilesh Kumar were among those killed on...

Four out of 15 adults admitted to hospital in the United States in recent months for ingesting an alcohol-based hand sanitizer died and three were left visually impaired, according to a new report from the nation’s health protection agency. The paper, published by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention...

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose by 253,793 to 16,812,755 in the past day, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The global death toll passed 662,000. As of 11:00 am on July 29, there were 16,558,289 confirmed cases worldwide and 656,093 fatalities. The WHO statistics are based on official information...

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard said it launched ballistic missiles from "the depths of the Earth" on Wednesday during the last day of military exercises near sensitive Gulf waters. A video posted online by a news agency linked to Iran's state TV showed clouds of dust before the missiles streaked into the...

Preparations for the Army-2020 defense forum has completed amid COVID-19, as only 35 states out of the 133 invited have confirmed the participation of their delegations, a senior Russian Defense Ministry official said in an interview published by the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper on Wednesday. "Difficult epidemiological situation...

KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian court on Tuesday sentenced Malaysia's former Prime Minister Najib Razak to 12 years in jail and fined him 210 million ringgit ($49.40 million) for abuse of power linked to a multi-billion dollar financial scandal at state fund 1MDB. The court also sentenced him to 10...

By Press Association 2020 - US: Over the past weekend, protests took a violent turn in several U.S. cities with demonstrators squaring off against federal agents outside a courthouse in Portland, Oregon, forcing police in Seattle to retreat into a station house and setting fire to vehicles in California and...

According to the U.S. State Department members in the embassy of Afgan capital have been infected by the COVID-19 include diplomats, contractors, and locals. The State Department did not say how many were affected. An official at the embassy in Kabul, who spoke to Associated Press on condition...

The United States has reached a grim milestone of 4 million coronavirus cases, doubling the total number of infections in just six weeks as deaths and hospitalizations continue a sharp rise in many states. Positivity rates are at alarming levels in numerous states, hospitalizations are soaring, and for the third straight...

For the first time in portland protest history, people are seeing the mystery woman “naked Athena” after images of her confronting federal agents as they faced off with protesters in Portland went viral. Now, everyone wants to know who’s behind the blackface mask. Portland has seen more than 50 days of...

Agency: The election campaigning that precedes the August 9 presidential election in Belarus begins in the country on Wednesday amid to COVID-19.  On Tuesday, the country’s Central Election Commission (CEC) registered five candidates. They are to submit their campaign platforms to the media selected by CEC until July 19. The registered candidates...

The social media platform said Stone and his associates, including a prominent supporter of the right-wing Proud Boys group in Stone’s home state of Florida, had used fake accounts and followers to promote Stone’s books and posts. Facebook moved against Stone on the same day it took down accounts tied to...