China is urging people to wear masks and gloves when opening mail, especially from abroad, after authorities suggested the first case of the Omicron coronavirus virus variant found in Beijing could have arrived via a package from Canada. Authorities vowed to step up disinfection of overseas mail and are insisting postal staff handling it are مزید پڑھیں

Airlines canceled over 2,700 US flights on Sunday as a winter storm combining high winds and ice was poised to hit the US East Coast over the holiday weekend. The flights canceled by 12:30pm ET on Sunday included over 2,700 entering, departing from or within the United States, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.com. Over مزید پڑھیں

The COVID-19 emergency is proceeding to hit jobs hard all over the world, the United Nations said cautioning it could require a long time for business levels to arrive at pre-pandemic levels.  a new study, the UN’s International Labour Organization revised its previous forecast that the global employment market will make a nearly full recovery مزید پڑھیں

Thousands demonstrated in cities across France on Saturday against tighter restrictions on people not vaccinated against Covid-19, as parliamentary wrangling continued over the draft law. In the capital Paris, the largest single gathering set off from near the Eiffel Tower, called by fringe anti-EU presidential candidate Florian Philippot. Other demonstrations harked back to the 2018-19 مزید پڑھیں

China has highly appreciated and welcomed Prime Minister Imran Khan’s decision to attend the opening ceremony of Beijing Winter Olympics Games next month. Addressing a regular briefing in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that Prime Minister Imran Khan will pay a three-day visit to China from February 3 at the invitation of مزید پڑھیں

President Xi Jinping has called for improved regulation and governance of China’s digital economy to guard against its “unhealthy” development as Beijing aims to boost the sector’s contribution to the country’s growth. In an essay in the ruling Communist Party’s publication Qiushi on Saturday, Xi called for focusing on key areas including integrated circuits, displays, مزید پڑھیں

Tsunami reached Japan late Saturday through early Sunday, and waves as high as three meters were possible, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, hours after a massive volcanic eruption near Tonga. The agency said a 1.2 metre (about four feet) tsunami reached the remote southern island of Amami Oshima around 11:55pm (1455 GMT) Saturday before other مزید پڑھیں

All the remaining hostages being held at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, were safely released on Saturday night more than ten hours after a man demanded the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist jailed in the US for almost a decade, by disrupting a religious service and starting an tense stand-off with police. مزید پڑھیں

Russia says imposing sanctions against President Vladimir Putin by Washington Administration would be an over-the-top measure, tantamount to breaking off the relations between the two countries. Talking to the reporters in Moscow, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said his country is always ready and will always do what best suits its interests. Earlier on Wednesday, مزید پڑھیں

United Nations has appealed for a suspension of rules preventing the use of money in Afghanistan to save lives and the economy and for a path to the conditional release of frozen Afghan foreign currency reserves. Talking to the reporters in New York, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said we must do even more to rapidly مزید پڑھیں