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Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered the release from prison on Tuesday of a Britishborn militant who had been convicted in the kidnapping and murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl by al Qaeda and Pakistani Islamist militants in 2002.

Vietnam's health minister said on Tuesday a newly detected coronavirus outbreak, which has infected 276 people and spread to 10 provinces and cities, is caused by the more contagious British variant of the coronavirus.Six days since the virus reemerged in...

China's top diplomat called on Tuesday for Beijing and Washington to put relations back on a predictable and constructive path, saying the United States should stop meddling in China's internal affairs, like Hong Kong and Tibet.

The committee noted that Suu Kyi was handed the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize 'in recognition of her brave struggle for democracy in Myanmar', and 'has continued to be a leading figure in developing democracy'.

Israel said on Monday it supplied the Palestinians with their first shipment of COVID19 shots, totalling 2,000 doses of Moderna's vaccine.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday called on Myanmar military leaders to release civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others detained in overnight raids in the country, according to a statement.

Primary schools in the Netherlands will reopen from Feb 8, the Dutch government said on Sunday, in the first easing of lockdown measures in months.

The pending Supreme Court case on the fate of the Affordable Care Act could give the Biden administration its first opportunity to chart a new course in front of the justices.

Saudi Arabia's health minister said on Sunday that complacency around coronavirus restrictions had led to a notable increase in daily cases in the kingdom.

Pope Francis on Sunday instituted a "World day for Grandparents and the Elderly" in the Roman Catholic Church to be marked once a year to honour them and to underscore their importance to society.

Rugby Australia has officially offered to host this years test series between South Africa and the British and Irish Lions.

Hong Kong residents can apply from Sunday for a new visa offering them an opportunity to become British citizens after Beijing's imposition of a national security law in the Asian financial hub last year.

A panel of three judges of the court on Thursday threw out the 2002 murder convictions against the four Islamists, including group’s British-born ringleader, Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh.

The WHO investigation has been hobbled by delays, and there are fears over access and the strength of evidence a year after the virus emerged in the central Chinese city.

Till Friday, Britain had recorded 3.75 million Covid-positive cases. The Indian equivalence of that would have been 80 million cases, or roughly the entire populations of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Himachal and Jammu and Kashmir.

The latest total death toll in India, a country with a population more than 10 times that of Mexico's 126 million inhabitants, stood at 153,847, according to a Reuters tally.