Washington, July 5 Partners in the Blue Pacific, established late last month by the US, Australia and three other allies, is seen by analysts -- and by Beijing -- as the latest in a series of moves to counter China's drive to expand its diplomatic and military reach in the ...

London, July 5 Covid-19 virus leaked out of a laboratory in the US, rather than the infamous Wuhan lab in China, claimed US economist Jeffrey Sachs. According to Sachs, who led a two-year probe into the pandemic's origins, he was "pretty convinced" the virus was the result of 'US lab ...

Moscow, July 5 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has denied media reports suggesting that Chinese President Xi Jinping refused to visit Russia. "This is not true. This is completely untrue. The fact is that certain Covid restrictions in China continue, and this is absolutely normal, and this should be treated with ...

New York, July 4 A new universal flu vaccine, constructed with key parts of the influenza virus, offers broad cross protection against different strains and subtypes of influenza A viruses in young and aged populations, according to a new study. Researchers at the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State ...

Tokyo, July 4 The Japan Metropolitan Agency (JMA) on Monday said a slow-moving typhoon Aere is expected to make landfall on the country's main island of Kyushu later in the day, bringing with it torrential downpours. The JMA said Aere was moving on a north-northeast trajectory in the East China ...

Hong Kong, July 3 The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM), located in the West Kowloon Cultural District of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), was open to the public on Sunday. More than 900 treasures from the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing are put on display on ...

Washington, July 2 Former US President Donald Trump is understood to be preparing to make an unusually early announcement of his third consecutive run for the White House. The New York Times has reported that Trump told some aides recently that he could announce his 2024 run on social media, ...

Tehran, July 2 At least five people were killed and 49 others injured as three earthquakes measuring above 6 on the Richter scale jolted Iran's southern Hormuzgan province on Saturday, an emergency official said. According to the official, the first 6.1-magnitude quake occurred at a depth of 10 km at ...

Bogota, July 2 The number of inmates who died after a fire broke out earlier this week during a prison riot in the Colombian town of Tulua has increased to 53, local health authorities said. A top health official said that a young inmate succumbed to his injuries on Friday ...

Auckland, June 30 New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has urged the democratic nations to stand firm as China becomes "more assertive" and "willing to challenge international rules and norms", in New Zealand's first-ever formal address to Nato, the media reported. New Zealand has toughened its tone recently on security ...