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A woman receives a booster shot of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a third dose vaccination campaign at a South Tangerang Regional General Hospital in Tangerang, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Indonesia starts COVID boosters for elderly, others at risk

The government hopes to provide 21 million booster shots in January to people who received their second jabs at least...

12 Jan 2022 10:54 AM IST

$People walk past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on January 11, 2022, after North Korea fired a \suspected ballistic missile\ into the sea, South Koreas military said, less than a week after Pyongyang reported testing a hypersonic missile. (Anthony WALLACE / AFP)$ World

North Korea fires second suspected missile in less than a week

The early-morning launch came as the UN Security Council met to discuss last week-'s test of what Pyongyang called a...

11 Jan 2022 10:58 AM IST

Aung San Suu Kyi (AFP file photo)

Myanmar-'s Suu Kyi convicted on new charges, jailed for four years

Suu Kyi was found guilty of two charges related to illegally importing and owning walkie-talkies and one of breaking...

10 Jan 2022 11:09 AM IST

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) with GCC Secretary General Nayef bin Falah Al-Hajraf. (File photo/Chinese Foreign Ministry)

Gulf ministers visit China amid energy fears

Recent unrest in oil and gas-rich Kazakhstan has raised concerns in China, which has long invested heavily in Kazakh-'s...

10 Jan 2022 10:21 AM IST

This prompted the local officials to resort to mass testing of all the 14 million people before its spread to Beijing as the capital city is set to host the much-advertised Winter Olympics from February 4. (AP Photo)

Omicron scare in China-'s Tianjin close to Beijing ahead of Winter...

Thousands of people commute between Tianjin and Beijing as it takes hardly 30 minutes by the high-speed train

9 Jan 2022 3:40 PM IST

This photo provided by the North Korean government, shows what it says a test launch of a hypersonic missile in North Korea Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. (AP)

N Korea says hypersonic missile tested to modernise weaponry

Wednesday-'s test indicates that the country will press ahead with plans to build powerful, sophisticated missiles

6 Jan 2022 11:02 AM IST

South Korean army soldiers patrol along the barbed-wire fence in Paju, near the border with North Korea, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile into sea

The latest launch came after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to further bolster his military capability

5 Jan 2022 11:20 AM IST

The worst situation today is said to be found in Xian town and since December, it is in the grip of a Covid-19 wave, according to Hong kong Post. (ANI/ Representational Image)

Zero-Covid obsession makes life miserable for Chinese People

For the Chinese Communist Party and its citizens, the New Year has begun on a tense note

4 Jan 2022 7:11 PM IST

Finance Minister Rajapaksa. (AP Photo)

Sri Lanka announces USD 1 billion economic relief package; says won-'t...

People owning land below one acre would be given 10,000 rupees (USD 49) subsidy to cultivate food crops, Rajapaksa said

4 Jan 2022 1:26 PM IST

The announcements come after weeks of speculation about when and how Beijing might tighten its scrutiny over IPOs. (AFP Photo)

China plans to tighten rules for companies listing abroad

This move is among the latest regulatory steps taken by China this year to tighten its grip on Chinese companies

28 Dec 2021 7:50 PM IST

Health workers process COVID-19 PCR tests at an outdoor testing site aside the Long Island Sound in Stamford, Connecticut. (Photo: AFP)

Omicron likely to be dominant strain globally in 2022: Singapore...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for the world to pull together to end the COVID-19 pandemic next year

24 Dec 2021 10:09 AM IST

China has reported 4,636 deaths among a total of 100,644 cases of COVID-19. (AP Photo)

China puts 13 million residents in lockdown ahead of Games

Movement outside his compound required permission from the local neighborhood committee, he said

23 Dec 2021 4:37 PM IST