Kathmandu,  Authorities in the Kathmandu Valley have decided to extend the ongoing lockdown by an additional week till June 28 to help curb Covid-19 infections, but also relax the provisions of the prohibitory order significantly.

"We relax the provisions of lockdown including allowing private vehic

Tel Aviv,  Israeli security forces said that eight Arab suspects have been arrested for the killing of a Jewish man in central Israel in May amid a wave of ethnic violence.

Israel's police and Shin Bet security service said in a joint statement issued on Sunday that six of the suspects are Palestinia

Addis Ababa,  Millions of Ethiopians went to the polls on Monday to vote in the country's sixth general elections to elect more than 9,000 parliamentary and regional council candidates.

The twice-postponed elections are being held in seven of the 10 regional states, with voters expected to choose can

Tel Aviv,  Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has warned the Islamic Hamas movement that the Jewish state will not tolerate "any more violence" from the besieged Gaza Strip.

Speaking at a memorial ceremony to commemorate the fallen soldiers during Israel's 2014 military

Washington,  US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has downplayed the impact of Iran's President-elect Ebrahim Raisi on Tehran's decision over the 2015 nuclear deal.

Raisi, the incumbent Chief Justice of Iran, won the presidential election held on June 18 by a landslide. Seen as a hardliner

Tehran,  A "technical failure" led to the temporary shutdown of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said in a statement.

The power plant was "temporarily" shut down on Sunday and disconnected from the Iranian national electri

Beijing,  China's Guangdong province reported one new locally-transmitted confirmed Covid-19 case, the National Health Commission said on Monday.

The case was reported in the city of Dongguan, Xinhua news agency quoted the Commission as saying.

Guangdong on Sunday also reported six imp

Washington,  US National Security Adviser (NSA) Jake Sullivan said that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's remarks that Pyongyang should be ready for a dialogue, as well as a confrontation with Washington, were an "interesting signal".

The remarks made during a key Workers' Party meeting

Tripoli,  Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah has announced the reopening of a coastal road that links western and eastern parts of the country after two years of closure.

Since April 2019, when a war between the eastern-based army and the former UN-backed Government of National Accord erupted in a

Yerevan, Early results from the Armenian Central Election Commission on Monday revealed that the ruling Civil Contract party led by caretaker Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan took the lead with 53.92 per cent of the votes cast in the parliamentary polls.

The Civil Contract party was followed by the Armenia Alli