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A woman lights a candle to commemorate victims of the COVD-19 pandemic at the Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic. (AP/Petr David Josek, file)

WHO: Coronavirus cases declining everywhere except Europe

Nearly two-thirds of the coronavirus infections - 1.9 million - were in Europe, where cases rose by 7 per cent

11 Nov 2021 11:28 AM IST

Covaxin is an indigenous COVID-19 vaccine produced by Bharat Biotech. (PTI Photo)

UK to add Covaxin to approved vaccine list from November 22

The move follows the World Health Organisation's Emergency Use Listing for Covaxin, which is the second most used...

9 Nov 2021 11:36 AM IST

The UK said together, they contain 85 per cent of the worlds forests, an area of over 13 million square miles. (Representational Image - AFP)

India stays off UK-led deforestation declaration at COP26 summit

Forests support communities, livelihoods and food supply, and absorb the carbon we pump into the atmosphere

2 Nov 2021 7:07 PM IST

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard (Rear C-L), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Rear R) and world leaders prepare to attend the opening session of the G20 of World Leaders Summit. (Photo: AFP)

G20 leaders vow to boost supply of Covid vaccines in developing...

The leaders also welcomed multilateral efforts aimed at supporting and strengthening pandemic preparedness and response

1 Nov 2021 11:59 AM IST

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive at Rome-Fiumicino International Airport to attend the G-20 leaders meeting, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, in Rome. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden, Pope Francis to talk virus, climate, poverty at Vatican

As only the second Catholic president after John F. Kennedy, Biden has made his audience with the pope a clear priority

29 Oct 2021 11:57 AM IST

The figure doesnt include the indirect costs of burning oil, coal and gas, such as the harm fossil fuel emissions do to the environment and human health. (AFP Photo)

'Save your species': UN uses dinosaur in fossil fuel message

The light-hearted clip, voiced by actor Jack Black, carries a serious message that the UN Development Programme hopes to...

27 Oct 2021 2:20 PM IST

Union Minister Piyush Goyal held a meeting with South Korean Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo on the sidelines of the G20 Trade Ministers Meeting in Italy. (PTI)

G20 leaders to discuss Afghanistan in virtual summit

Afghanistan's economy remains in a parlous state with international aid cut off, food prices rising and unemployment...

12 Oct 2021 1:38 PM IST

They were citing for their fight for freedom of expression. (Photo: Twitter/@NobelPrize)

Journalists from Philippines, Russia given Nobel Peace Prize

The winners were announced Friday by Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee

8 Oct 2021 3:11 PM IST

Commission president Jean-Marc Sauve, left, hands copies of the report to Catholic Bishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, president of the Bishops Conference of France (CEF), during the publishing of a report by an independant commission into sexual abuse by church officials (Ciase), Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, in Paris. A major French report released Tuesday found that an estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within Frances Catholic Church over the past 70 years, in Frances first major reckoning with the devastating phenomenon. (AP)

330,000 children victims of church sex abuse: French report

About 80% of the victims were boys, as per the 2,500-page document prepared by an independent commission

5 Oct 2021 2:45 PM IST

The Karnataka government made it mandatory for travellers entering the state from Kerala via rail, road or air. (Photo: PTI)

UK updates travel advisory for its nationals going to India

All such passengers under isolation/quarantine shall be regularly monitored by State/District Health Authorities

2 Oct 2021 8:18 PM IST

Front from left, Franziska Giffey, top candidate of the SPD for Mayor of the German city of Berlin, Olaf Scholz, top candidate for chancellor of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), and Manuela Schwesig, member of the SPD and governor of the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, pose with flowers at the partys headquarter in Berlin, Germany. (Photo: AP)

Germany's Social Democrats win election but uncertainty beckons

Preliminary official results showed that the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) narrowly won the vote at 25.7 percent

27 Sept 2021 1:49 PM IST

People walk and drive past election posters of the three candidates for German chancellor , from right, Armin Laschet, Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Annalena Baerbock, German Green party (Die Gruenen) and Olaf Scholz, Social Democratic Party (SPD), at a street in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Germanys closely fought election on Sunday will set the direction of the European Unions most populous country after 16 years under Angela Merkel, whose party is scrambling to avoid defeat by its center-left rivals after a rollercoaster campaign. (AP)

Germans vote in close election to decide Merkel successor

Merkel has been in power since 2005 but plans to step down after the election, making the vote an era-changing event

26 Sept 2021 12:30 PM IST