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The global body against money laundering and terror financing also asked Pakistan to work to address its strategically important deficiencies. (Photo: AFP/File)

US asks Pakistan to keep working with FATF to complete its 27-point...

The Financial Action Task Force retained Pakistan on its 'grey list' for failing to check money laundering, leading to...

20 July 2021 7:14 AM GMT

The blasts targeted St Anthonys Church in Colombo, St Sebastians Church in the western coastal town of Negombo and a church in the eastern town of Batticaloa when the Easter Sunday mass was in progress on April 21, 2019. (AFP Photo)

Easter Sunday attacks: Lanka's failure to act on Indian intel played...

Three explosions were reported from three five-star hotels - the Shangri-La, the Cinnamon Grand and the Kingsbury in...

19 July 2021 12:13 PM GMT

A security gate is set up near the National Stadium, the main venue for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in Tokyo on July 17, 2021. (Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)

First coronavirus case hits Tokyo Olympics Village

Japanese media reported that the person who had tested positive was a foreign national

17 July 2021 5:49 AM GMT

The Supreme Court on Monday overturned Prime Minister Olis May 21 decision to dissolve the House of Representatives and ordered the appointment of Sher Bahadur Deuba as prime minister. (AP Photo)

Sher Bahadur Deuba becomes Nepal's Prime Minister for 5th time

Sher Bahadur Deuba is required to seek a vote of confidence from the House within 30 days of his appointment as the...

13 July 2021 9:44 AM GMT

Nepali Congress chief Sher Bahadur Deuba appointed as Prime Minister. (AFP Photo)

Nepal's Supreme court orders appointment of Sher Bahadur Deuba as...

The court also ordered summoning a new session of the House of Representatives at 5 PM on July 18

12 July 2021 12:26 PM GMT

The Games already will take place without foreign spectators. (Photo: AP)

Japan to declare virus emergency lasting through Olympics

The Summer Olympics, already delayed a year by the pandemic, begin July 23 and close Aug 8

8 July 2021 3:54 AM GMT

People queue to undergo nucleic acid testing for the coronavirus in the city of Ruili which borders Myanmar, in Chinas southwestern Yunnan province on July 5, 2021. (STR / AFP) / China OUT

China tightens security on Myanmar border over virus fears

On Wednesday, 57 new cases were reported, the highest daily tally since late January, including 15 in the city of Ruili,...

7 July 2021 6:29 AM GMT

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members search a mudslide area following heavy rains in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, west of Tokyo. (Photo: AP)

Japan searches for 24 unaccounted for in mudslide; 4 dead

Atami Mayor Sakae Saito said 24 people were still unreachable Tuesday morning

6 July 2021 6:08 AM GMT

A French Rafale fighter jet approaches to land at the deck in the French aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle, off the eastern coast of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea. (AFP)

Rafale deal: BJP, Congress spar as France begins 'highly sensitive'...

The Mediapart said the probe into the inter-governmental deal signed in 2016 was formally opened on June 14

3 July 2021 12:26 PM GMT

Workers paste the overlay on the wall of the National Stadium, where opening ceremony and many other events are scheduled for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, on June 2, 2021, in Tokyo.

Japan to ask athletes from India, others for more COVID-19 tests

Japan aims to put the new rule, which will be applied to athletes from India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka...

27 Jun 2021 4:33 AM GMT

In November, Chinese President Xi Jinping had instructed officials to expedite construction of the new railway project, connecting Sichuan Province and Nyingchi in Tibet. (AFP Photo)

China launches first fully-electrified bullet train in Tibet, close to...

The rail line passes through 47 tunnels and 121 bridges and crosses the Brahmaputra river locally called Yarlung Zangbo...

25 Jun 2021 9:22 AM GMT

A doctor is seen wearing a facemask while looking at a lung CT image from a patient at a hospital in Wuhan. AFP Photo

First COVID-19 case could have hit China in October 2019: Study

The most likely date for the virus's emergence was November 17, 2019, and it had probably already spread globally by...

25 Jun 2021 4:42 AM GMT