International

New Delhi: A rare nerve disorder that affects the feet, hands and limbs has been added to the list of possible side effects of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine by UK regulators, the Daily Mail reported. Guillain-Barre syndrome, which sees the immune system go haywire and...

New Delhi: The purported use of ethnic Baloch and Uyghur suicide bombers in the Kandahar and Kunduz attacks claimed by IS-K suggests a message is being sent to two other neighbours of Afghanistan -- China and Pakistan, TRT World reported. Beijing is already alarmed by...

Kabul: The Taliban-led Afghan government's Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Sunday launched a plan to create jobs and fight a potential food crisis amid the continuous rise of poverty and unemployment in the war-torn country. "The Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) launched...

Ankara: Two foreign-flagged cargo ships collided Sunday in the Marmara Sea off Turkey's northwestern Canakkale province, causing damage but no injuries, local media reported. Benitamou, a 299-metre-long vessel carrying cast iron ore to China from Ukraine, reportedly collided with BC Vanessa, a 172-meter-long vessel carrying...

New Delhi: The Pakistan government has dug up a trench on GT Road near Gujranwala in response to an announcement by the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) that they will set out on a long march towards Islamabad, Geo News reported. A deep and long pit...

Abuja: More than 800 inmates escaped following an attack by unidentified gunmen on a custodial centre in southwest Nigeria's Oyo state, the country's correctional service confirmed. Olanrewaju Anjorin, spokesman for the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) in the Oyo state, said in a statement 837 inmates...

Islamabad: Pakistan is witnessing a continuous rise of dengue cases and in the last 24 hours, an additional 832 people were infected in different areas of the country, health authorities said. The new cases were detected in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, as...

Islamabad: Chief of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority has accused the United States of sabotaging the multi-billion dollar project, the economic lifeline of Pakistan, a media report said. The ambitious CPEC was launched in 2015 when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Pakistan. It aims...

Beijing: Asserting that sovereignty and territorial integrity of China are "sacred and inviolable", the country's national legislature has adopted a new law on the protection and exploitation of the land border areas, which could have bearing on Beijing's border dispute with India. Members of the...

Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 24.33 crore, while the deaths have surged to more than 49.4 lakh and vaccinations soared to over 6.78 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update Sunday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and...