Washington and Moscow’s top diplomats on Friday agreed to keep working to ease tensions over Ukraine, with the United States promising a written response to Russian security requirements next week and not ruling out a presidential meeting. As fears grew that Russia could invade its pro-Western neighbour, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken renewed warnings مزید پڑھیں

The United States, the World Health Organization’s top giver, is opposing recommendations to make the office more autonomous, four authorities engaged with the discussions said, raising questions about the Biden organization’s drawn out help for the UN office. The proposal, made by the WHO’s working group on sustainable financing, would increase each member state’s standing مزید پڑھیں

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said after talks with Russia’s foreign minister on Friday that Moscow would face a “swift, severe and a united response” if it invades Ukraine. Blinken said after the talks in Geneva that Washington had agreed to provide written comments to Russia after Moscow demanded security guarantees, including a pledge مزید پڑھیں

US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he withdrew his troops from Afghanistan because it’s not possible to unify the war-torn country under one single government. At a White House news conference, Mr Biden also said that the United States was “spending a billion dollars a week in Afghanistan for 20 years” and could مزید پڑھیں

China’s capital Beijing ramped up efforts to curb COVID-19 infections, ordering checks among cold-chain firms and urging residents to cut unnecessary gatherings, as the city reported an uptick in local cases weeks before the Winter Olympics. Beijing had three domestically transmitted infections with confirmed symptoms on Wednesday, including one previously reported as a local asymptomatic مزید پڑھیں

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to block the release of White House records sought by the Democratic-led congressional panel investigating last year’s deadly attack on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters. The decision means the documents, held by a federal agency that stores government and historical مزید پڑھیں

Afghanistan’s prime minister called on Muslim nations to be the first to officially recognise the Taliban government, as the aid-dependent country faces economic collapse. No country has yet recognised the Taliban, with most watching to see how the group — accused of human rights abuses during their first stint in power — restrict freedoms. Although مزید پڑھیں

Now it is possible to detect corona test through X-ray, experts claim to have given 98% accurate result in a few minutes from X-ray instead of PCR test. The new technology uses artificial intelligence to detect viruses, experts hope the technology will be helpful for medical personnel on the frontline. X-rays do not show symptoms مزید پڑھیں

Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalising large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, says a UN report released this week. The report was released on Monday by the Special Procedures group, which is the largest body of human rights experts in the UN system. In a tweet posted on the مزید پڑھیں

Three Indian naval personnel were killed in an explosion on one of the country’s oldest destroyers at a naval dockyard in Mumbai, authorities said. The blast occurred on Tuesday in an internal compartment on the Soviet-built INS Ranvir, commissioned in 1986, according to the Indian Navy. “No material damage has been reported … [A] board مزید پڑھیں