Powerful Hurricane Ida mauls Louisiana, other US regions

HOUSTON, Texas – Dangerous high-end category 4 Hurricane Ida on Sunday made a landfall with maximum sustained winds…

UN HR Experts: It’s Unacceptable to let ‘terrorist organization’ overrun Afghanistan

GENEVA – It is unacceptable for states to just stand on the sidelines as a UN Security…

Malaysia’s premier, Cabinet resign

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Malaysia’s king has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and told him…

US supports Asean’s principles on South China Sea

HÀNỘI – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) member countries and the United States on Wednesday affirmed…

Covid-19 spirals out of control in Asia-Pacific

ANKARA – The number of daily coronavirus cases has increased in the vast majority of the Asia-Pacific…

Fewer women than men to regain employment during Covid recover

GENEVA – Inequalities between women and men in the job market that have been exacerbated due to…

Delta variant poses increasing threat to unvaccinated Americans

WASHINGTON – Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to surge among the unvaccinated across the United States,…

Pfizer developing Covid-19 booster shot against emerging Delta variant

WASHINGTON – Pfizer and BioNTech are currently developing a Covid-19 booster shot intended to target the highly…

WHO: World in early stages of Covid-19 third wave

GENEVA – The world is currently in the early stages of a third wave, World Health Organization…

China scores world’s 1st ever human case of bird flu

BEIJING – The world’s first case of a human being infected with the bird flu virus H10N3…