Iran’s vice-president has been diagnosed with coronavirus, state media have reported, as the country struggles to stop the spread of…
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Peace judges in Peru’s Amazon region have joined the International Labour Organisation’s efforts to eradicate forced labour in the area.For…
Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Qu Dongyu, says biodiversity is the basis of food diversity. According to…
Two more Iranians infected with a coronavirus have died, media website Eghtesaonline said on Tuesday, taking to 14 the toll…
An elderly cancer patient became the third person known to be infected with the coronavirus to die in Italy, health…
Africa is ill-equipped to respond to the deadly corona virus outbreak, the World Health Organization said Saturday. The global health…
Naval assets of the European Union (EU) will be patrolling no closer than 100 kilometres (60 miles) off the eastern…
From Tuesday through Friday (February 25-28), the International Labour Organisation (ILO) will be holding a meeting of government, employer, and…
Organizers for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics have postponed training for volunteers because of the spread of the coronavirus in…
A 78-year old Italian who had tested positive for the coronavirus has died, Italy’s health minister said Friday. The man…
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday qualified for this week’s Democratic presidential debate in Nevada, putting him on…
Forty Americans are among hundreds infected with the new coronavirus on a cruise ship quarantined off Japan, a US official…
A French soldier has died while on operations in Burkina Faso, the French Armed Forces Ministry said in a statement…
Sub-zero temperatures and increased snowfall are currently exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in northwest Syria where more than 250,000 people have…
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians has released new evidence of rights breaches against 509…
Scientists in Antarctica have recorded a new record temperature of 20.75 degrees Celsius (69.35 Fahrenheit), breaking the barrier of 20…
The International Energy Agency on Thursday reported that oil demand is set to fall this quarter for the first time since…
A suicide bomber killed six people near a military academy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, the interior ministry…
China has recorded a new morbid highest with more than a 100 people dying of the novel coronavirus on Monday…
The death toll in China due to the novel coronavirus epidemic has gone up to 908 and the number of…
A soldier with a grudge gunned down 26 people and wounded 57 in Thailand’s worst shooting spree before he was…
At least 10 people have been killed and many others injured in a mass shooting carried out by a Thai…
A US citizen has died from the new coronavirus at the epicentre of the epidemic in China, the US embassy…
President Donald Trump won impeachment acquittal Wednesday in the US Senate, bringing to a close only the third presidential trial…
A baby in China’s epidemic-hit Wuhan city has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus just 30 hours after being born,…
China’s death toll from a new coronavirus jumped above 360 on Monday to surpass the number of fatalities of its…
The Palestinian Authority has cut all ties with the United States and Israel, including those relating to security, after rejecting…
Director-General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Guy Ryder, has called for a whole-of-supply-chain approach to address child labour in…
Apple Inc on Saturday said it would shut all of its official stores and corporate offices in mainland China until…
At least 259 people have died and nearly are 11800 infected with the novel coronavirus, health officials said on Saturday,…