Los Angeles: Prince Harry and Meghan will serve as the campaign chairs of Global Citizen’s effort to deliver Covid-19 vaccines to medical workers in the world’s poorest countries. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will appear at “Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World,” to
Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Wednesday held a telephonic conversation with Mr. Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and discussed latest status of COVID-19 pandemic, polio eradication campaign, health and development issues, and climate change. The PM expressed appreciation for
Dubai: An Iranian court sentenced British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to another year in jail, just weeks after she finished a prior five-year sentence, a decision Britain called “inhumane”. When Zaghari-Ratcliffe was freed from house arrest last month at the end of a sentence for seeking
Tehran: Iran’s president said Wednesday the leak of an audio recording of his top diplomat was aimed at creating "discord" in the Islamic republic during talks aimed at reviving a nuclear deal. "It was published right when the Vienna (talks) were at the height of their
Washington: Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer need to mask up outdoors when there is no crowd, President Joe Biden said Tuesday, before celebrating by taking his first short walk at the White House without the face covering. Biden told the nation in televised remarks from
New Delhi: Bodies of Covid victims lay burning in funeral pyres cramming New Delhi s sidewalks and car parks amid an explosion of new cases, as foreign aid began arriving to surging hotspot India in efforts to keep the pandemic at bay. While rising vaccinations in
Kabul: US special envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad believes Pakistan understands the impact of civil war in Afghanistan. He has said that he believes peace is still possible in Afghanistan as Washington has started to withdraw its remaining troops from the country. Khalilzad was speaking to
Efforts to end two major conflicts in India’s neighbourhood have become intense. To the east, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has produced a diplomatic opening with Myanmar’s military leadership over the weekend. The Tatmadaw, as Myanmar’s army is known, took charge of the
Brussels: The European Parliament on Wednesday overwhelmingly ratified the EU’s post-Brexit trade deal with Britain, but promised to keep a close eye on London with cross-channel tensions still high. The vote approved the bare bones trade deal with the bloc’s third-biggest trading partner that was sealed
Washington: An unprecedented upsurge in Covid-19 infections in South Asia could push global infections to 15 million a day by mid-May, says an American health institute which correctly projected Covid deaths and infections in the United States last year. “Our latest projections show that the number