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President Joe Biden and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan agreed in a meeting this week that Turkey would take a lead role in securing Kabul airport as

Antonio Guterres re-elected as UN Secretary-General for second five-year term

His second term will begin on January 1, 2022

India's presence in Afghanistan perhaps 'larger than it ought to be', says Pakistan

Foreign Minister blames India for using Afghan-soil for carrying out anti-Pakistan activities.

Expect Sri Lanka to remain mindful of bilateral ties, says India on port project

Closely following the recent developments from its security perspective, says MEA on the China-backed project

U.S. locks down embassy in Afghanistan amid COVID-19 surge

It also issued a call for the Biden administration to require all staffers at all US embassies and consulates abroad to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of their employment.

U.S. to spend $ 3.2 billion to develop treatments for COVID-19 and potential threats

‘Vaccines will continue to remain the centrepiece of our arsenal against COVID-19,’ says Anthony Fauci

N.Ireland gets Brexit hardliner as new first minister

Brexit hardliner Paul Givan was installed as Northern Ireland's new first minister on Thursday, as Britain's split from the European Union continues

Israel launches airstrikes on Gaza: army

AFP journalists in the Palestinian enclave also reported hearing explosions, which the army said hit sites in both Gaza City, and in Khan Yunis, in the south of Gaza

Coronavirus | Sri Lanka reports delta variant amid a daunting third wave

Currently, there are about 62,000 active cases; people across the country voice concern over economic distress

U.S. to make Juneteenth a federal holiday

The United States will soon have a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery.The House voted 415-14 on Wednesday to make Juneteenth, or

Russia ready for further dialogue if U.S. is willing: Putin

Putin and Biden held their first face-to-face meeting in Geneva on Wednesday

Chinese astronauts dock with space station

The three-man crew will be in orbit for three months.

Fire-ravaged ship sinks, prompting Sri Lankan pollution fear

The ship’s operator said the wreck of the Singapore-flagged X-Press Pearl “is now wholly sitting on the seabed at a depth of 21 metres (70ft).”

U.S. push for self-driving cars faces union, lawyers opposition

Last month, Greg Regan, president of the Transportation Trades Department for the AFL-CIO, told U.S. lawmakers that autonomous vehicles place "millions of jobs at risk".

Clubhouse to let content creators in India make money off the platform

Creators will also be allowed to design services for creative assets, promote within and outside Clubhouse, and help build an audience.

Major banks, airlines hit in new global Internet outage

Many of the outages were reported by people in Australia trying to do banking, book flights and access postal services

Thirteen workers killed in iron mine accident in China

The bodies of the workers were lifted out of the well that flooded the Dahongcai iron mine in Daixian County on June 10.

Iran nuclear deal hangs in balance as Islamic Republic votes

“I think there's a lot of domestic politics that go into this and an interest from hard-liners, including the supreme leader.”

Sri Lanka's move to reopen schools hit by shortage of vaccines

Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 vaccination began in late January with India’s gift of 500,000 Covishield AstraZeneca vaccines.

COVID-19 origins probe should shift to U.S., says China disease expert

‘All bio-weapons related subjects that the country has should be subject to scrutiny’, says Zeng Guang

Microsoft names CEO Satya Nadella as chairman

The top-level executive change comes just over a year after Bill Gates stepped down from the board

Is Big Tech prioritising power over innovation

Lawmakers and regulators in the U.S., E.U., Australia and U.K. are going after Big Tech firms' anticompetitive practices. Last July, U.S. lawmakers probed Facebook’s Instagram acquisition, Apple’s App Store dominance, Google’s advertising practices and Amazon’s treatment of small sellers.

China launches crewed spacecraft Shenzhou-12 in historic mission

The ‘Divine Vessel’, bound for the space station module Tianhe blasted off at 9:22 a.m. rom the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu province.

Hong Kong police arrest newspaper editors for ‘foreign conspiracy'

The arrests were made according to a new national security law.

EU agrees additional Belarus sanctions after forced Ryanair landing

The European Union agreed additional sanctions on Belarus on Wednesday in response to the forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk and the arrest

China says nuclear fuel rods damaged, no radiation leak

A Chinese nuclear power plant near Hong Kong had five broken fuel rods in a reactor but no radioactivity leaked, the government said on Wednesday in

Iran field narrows as candidates quit on campaign’s last day

Iran’s presidential contest headed towards a showdown between the country’s hard-line judiciary chief and moderate former central bank chief on

Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin hail positive talks, but U.S. warns on cyber warfare

Mr. Biden says tone of Putin talks was 'good, positive'

Putin says Biden meet 'constructive'; talks agreed on cybersecurity, arms

Diplomatic relations between Moscow and Washington had all but broken down since Joe Biden took office in January

India extends $100 mn loan to Sri Lanka

It’ll support expansion of solar energy

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