New York,  US President Joe Biden and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi have committed themselves to work closely on a range of issues from fighting terrorism and upholding territorial integrity to defeating the Covid-19 pandemic and rebuilding the global economy, according to the White House.

The

Paris,  The number of deaths caused by the novel coronavirus in France topped 79,000 since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, official figures showed on Monday.

The country counted 458 new fatalities in the past 24-hour period, bringing the national death toll to 79,423, the Xinhua news agency report

Buenos Aires,  Argentina has detected the first cases of the new coronavirus variants which were first discovered in Brazil, Health Minister Gines Gonzalez Garcia confirmed.

In a statement on Monday, Garcia said that the P. 1 variant was detected in two samples and the P.2 strain in two other samples rec

Mexico City, Mexico's economy could grow as much as 5 per cent in 2021 as it recovers from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said.

In his first public appearance since contracting the virus and the subsequent quarantining, the President on Monday underscored his

Quito, Ecuador's presidential elections are heading to a runoff scheduled for April 16 after none of the record 16 candidates in the fray could secure a required 40 per cent majority, the National Electoral Council (CNE) said.

The CNE said on Monday that the runoff will take place between progressive cand

Washington, A Pentagon watchdog has found that ineffective implementation of social distancing and the premature release of sailors from quarantine were the primary causes of the massive Covid-19 outbreak onboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier last year.

The Navy had appropriate plans in place to

United Nations, The Presidents of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and Security Council have signed a joint letter to member states, which officially launched the selection and appointment process for the position of Secretary-General, a top official said here.

"That letter, which had been posted on our website

Washington, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has confirmed that the country is ready to "re-engage" with the UN Human Rights Council, following the 2018 withdrawal by the former Donald Trump administration which accused the body of being "hypocritical and self-serving".

In a series of tweet

Washington, A new study has suggested that the coronavirus variant first detected in the UK late last year is spreading rapidly across the US, raising concerns over another resurgence in the hardest-hit country.

Analyzing half a million coronavirus tests and hundreds of genomes, researchers have predicted tha