As the first recipients of lifesaving COVID-19 vaccine doses through the UN-partnered COVAX initiative, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana began their vaccine rollouts on Monday, prioritizing frontline workers and vulnerable groups, according to the World (...)
COVAX has been trending in stories about the COVID-19 pandemic in recent days, particularly in relation to the shipment of vaccines to Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, the first to arrive in Africa. Here's a UN News recap of what COVAX is, and why it is so (...)
India expanded its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Monday to cover people over 60 years of age as it hopes to address a spike in infections as well as "vaccine hesitancy" among people.
The country began inoculating its 1.3 billion population from (...)
The UAE has welcomed the declaration of a ceasefire between the Indian and Pakistani armies across the disputed borders in Kashmir.
In a statement on Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation affirmed that the UAE has (...)
New alignments are emerging within a rapidly evolving geopolitical context in the Mediterranean and South Asia, with Turkey's ambitious President Recep Tayyip Erdogan forging a strategic alliance with Pakistan in order to realize many of his (...)
A World War II-era plane flew over the funeral service of Capt. Tom Moore on Saturday in honor of the veteran who single-handedly raised millions of pounds for Britain's health workers by walking laps in his backyard.
Soldiers performed ceremonial (...)
As the COVID-19 pandemic gathers pace, people worldwide are "being left behind — or pushed even further behind", the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned on Friday.
Delivering a global update to the Human Rights Council, Michelle Bachelet (...)
Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan met here on Friday with his Indian counterpart Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
They discussed the historic UAE-India friendship ties and ways of enhancing aspects of joint (...)
Japan's military performed 25 missions in 2020 in defense of US ships or planes, a sign of the growing integration of two of Asia's most powerful armed forces.
The number of what Japan calls "asset protection" missions was up from 14 in 2019 amid a (...)
India has confirmed 16,738 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 11,046,914, the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday, according to Sputnik News (...)
China has detained at least six people for allegedly defaming four servicemen killed in a bloody border clash with India last June, as state media wages a propaganda campaign hailing the dead troops as martyrs.
Police said six people were detained (...)
Ghana has become the first country to receive COVID-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization's COVAX program on Wednesday, a joint statement issued by UNICEF Ghana and WHO Ghana said.
The shipment, consisting of 600,000 doses of the (...)
An Indian court on Tuesday granted bail to climate activist Disha Ravi who was detained for sharing a document intended to help farmers protesting against new agricultural laws.
The 22-year-old is a founding member of the local chapter of Fridays (...)
A new incisive report from an independent non-profit NGO, International Institute for Iranian Studies (Rasanah) forecasts Iran in 2021 is likely to face deeper internal crises and more intense interactions with the new US administration.
It also (...)
International travelers arriving at Indian airports from the Middle East, Europe and the United Kingdom have been advised by the country's ministry of civil aviation here to brace for longer wait times from Tuesday (Feb. 23).
This is in view of more (...)
Hundreds of thousands of Indian women are learning to market themselves and sell products online, with the support of a digital literacy project managed by the World Bank.
Women weavers in Gujarat, India, feared the worst for their livelihood when (...)
The world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa lit up to celebrate the launch of 200th LuLu Hypermarket. The visitors at the landmark destination and millions across the world saw the iconic Burj Khalifa projecting the familiar colors of Lulu logo with (...)
India's decision to end autonomy in Jammu and Kashmir and restrict the participation of minorities in political and other activities sparked the concern of two UN-appointed independent human rights experts, on Thursday.
"The loss of autonomy and the (...)
As the protests over new farm laws in parts of north India continue, the government says that domestic and international outcry over its reform measures is based on half-truths and lacks understanding about the exigencies of the Indian agriculture (...)
India has confirmed 12,881 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 10,950,201, the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday, according to Sputnik News (...)
India has confirmed 9,121 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 10,925,710, the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.
The death toll from the disease has reached (...)
Indian power generation from coal fell to a five-year low of "just" 1,064 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2020 due to the COVID-19-induced slowdown. This was only a dip, however, as coal still makes up a gigantic 70% of the country's total electricity (...)
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday listed two versions of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, giving the green light for these vaccines to be rolled out globally through COVAX. The vaccines are produced by (...)
Aalami Tehreek Urdu (International Urdu Movement), an organization based in India to promote the Urdu language, has decided to institute a global award in the name of Prof. Muzaffar Hanfi, a prominent Urdu Poet, critic, and writer. The award will be (...)
Supporters of a young climate activist arrested in India over a farmers' protest "toolkit," later shared by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, have called for her release.
Delhi police confirmed the arrest of Disha Ravi, who is in her early (...)
