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Iran dismisses Ukrainian plane crash report as 'heavily politicised'
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohsen Baharvand has dismissed an official Canadian report on the Ukrainian airplane crash near Tehran in January 2020...
Global Covid-19 caseload tops 180mn
The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 180 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.90 million, according to the Johns Hopkins...
Thailand PM orders one month closure of worker camps in Bangkok
Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Friday that temporary closure will be applied to specific clusters to stem domestic spreads of...
Myanmar reports 859 new Covid-19 cases
The Covid-19 death toll rose to 3,282 after seven new deaths were reported in the past 24 hours in Myanmar, according to a release from the Health and...
Biden should tell Pakistan to stop proxy war in Afghanistan: Diaspora
Members of the Afghan-American community on Friday held a welcome rally in support of their visiting President Ashraf Ghani and CEO Dr Abdullah...
Partnership between Afghanistan, US to be sustained: Biden
As the United States prepares to withdraw its soldiers from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden on Friday said his country’s partnership with the South...
UN envoy calls for new international talks on Syrian war
With no progress toward ending the 10-year Syrian conflict, the United Nations special envoy for Syria called Friday for new international talks on...
Trudeau says Pope Francis should apologize on Canadian soil
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday he has urged Pope Francisco to come to Canada to apologize for church-run boarding schools where hundreds of...