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Sydney - Skilled workers, international students, and other eligible visa holders are again allowed to enter Australia almost two years after the country's international borders were closed due to the...

Berlin: Signs were growing on Tuesday that lockdowns could very well be the order of the day as the world heads into 2022, with fear of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus growing and more...

British coronavirus rules have been relaxed for returning holidaymakers who are fully vaccinated in what the government is hailing a huge boost for the travel industry. From 4am (0300 GMT) on Sunday -...

The body of an eight-year-old girl who was eaten by a crocodile on Indonesia's Buru island two days earlier was found on Friday, an official said.Suci Ramadhani was bathing with her friends on...

Washington: Oil prices extended gains for the sixth day running on Tuesday amid tighter supplies and signs of growing global demand.Benchmark Brent crude futures rose 69 cents, or 0.9 percent, to79.41...

Climate change increases the likelihood of extreme rainfall and thus of flooding events like the one that hit western Germany last month, according to a study published on Tuesday.Given current...

Thousands of people are besieging the entrances to the airport in the Afghan capital Kabul, which is the main lifeline for afghans and foreign citizens trying to flee the country as the Taliban take...

Taliban militants have seized three of Afghanistan'smajor cities and a slew of other provincial capitals, with their week-long onslaught of victories showing no sign of letting up as the fate of the...

Argentina beat Germany 3-0 in the quarter-finals on Monday to continue their bid for a first Olympic women's field hockey gold.Agustina Albertarrio, Maria Jose Granatto, and Valentina Raposo scored in...

Pakistan banned air travel for unvaccinated people Sunday as the country recorded its highest daily coronavirus infections in more than three months amid a fourth wave of the pandemic.The travel...

President Vladimir Putin has signed a law withdrawing Russia from the Open Skies treaty, an arms control pact with theUnited States that permitted unarmed surveillance flights over military facilities...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday announced that Covid-19 variants of concern will be known by letters of the Greek alphabet, saying it will help avoid stigmatizing countries where they...

Bangladeshi police have arrested a suspected wildlife poacher believed to have killed at least 70 endangered Bengal tigers in more than two decades, police said on Tuesday.The suspect, Habib Talukder,...

A new national flagship, the successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia, is to promote British trade and industry around the world, Boris Johnson has said.The vessel will be used to host trade fairs,...

The COVAX vaccination equity programme is 190 million doses short of the numbers needed by the end of June for vaccination programmes to combat Covid-19 in poorer countries.The programme, which was...

A powerful storm hit India's east coast on Wednesday, flattening houses, uprooting trees and electric poles, breaking down sea embankments, and flooding large tracts of land.Cyclone Yaas, classified...

India on Wednesday recorded 4,529 Covid-19 deaths, the highest single-day spike of fatalities anywhere in the world since the beginning of the pandemic, official data showed.The South Asian country...

Twitter on Tuesday announced it has acquired Scroll, a subscription platform for users who don't want to read content with ads or pop-ups but still support publishers to bring in more revenue than...