Vientiane, The Laos government announced that the country had overcome COVID-19, after discharging the last of its 19 hospitalized patients and not having registered any new cas in 59 days, local media reported Saturday.

"Laos has won a major victory in the first campaign against this ruthless enemy,&quo

London, Turkey has slammed Twitter for removing thousands of accounts based in the country that supported President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying these were not "fake" profiles designed to support the president.

Twitter has purged 7,340 accounts in Turkey, saying these were employing coordinated inauthent

London, In a significant find, a new study has said that the novel coronavirus behind Covid-19 may actually trigger onset of diabetes in healthy people, apart from causing severe complications of pre-existing diabetes.

According to the researchers from King's College London, given the short period of huma

Sydney, Defying the Australian government's COVID-19 restrictions, hundreds of people took to the streets in Sydney to protest against custodial deaths of aboriginals in the country.

The New South Wales (NSW) police blocked the perimeter around the Sydney Town Hall and deployed around 600 officers along with p

Brasilia, The Brazilian government said that the Amazon rainforest witnessed deforestation of a record 829 sq km in May, the highest monthly level since 2015.

On Friday, the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) said that deforestation in the Amazon increased by 91 sq km compared to the same period last yea

Washington/Seoul,  South Korea meets the conditions to lift travel restrictions that were placed on US troops to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the Pentagon said.

South Korea was added to a list of "green locations" as part of the Defense Department's move to a conditions-based, phased a

Beijing/New Delhi, In novel approach to understand natural variability factors behind five-decade long rainfall decline till the year 2000 in India, a group of scientists has now examined the differing trends in pre- and post-2000 Indian summer monsoon (rainfall), its decline and recovery.

The variability manifest

Hong Kong, June 13 (IANS) Hong Kong's Ocean Park reopened on Saturday after more than four months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Some of the dozens of guests waiting at the queues arrived at the attraction in Aberdeen hours before 10 a.m., the opening time, and many visitors said they missed

Paris, France has urged the US to withdraw its sanctions against officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC) engaged in an investigation into possible war crimes by American forces in Afghanistan.

The US' decision "represents a serious attack on the Court and the States Parties to the Rome Statute

The Hague, The International Criminal Court (ICC) has condemned US sanctions against its officials engaged in an investigation into possible war crimes by American forces in Afghanistan.

The ICC said in a statement that the US attacks "constitute an escalation and an unacceptable attempt to interfere wit