ISLAMABAD - A minister of Germany’s Hesse state ended his life after apparently being upset over economic troubles surfaced due to novel coronavirus outbreak in the country. The death of state’s finance minister Thomas Schaeer was confirmed by Hesse premier Volker Bouffier on Sunday, saying ...

PESHAWAR: In a setback to peace deal, Afghan Taliban reject the Afghanistan government negotiations team. The Afghan Taliban on Saturday said they had rejected a negotiation team constituted by the Afghan government for the long-awaited "intra-Afghan dialogue" with Taliban. "We had committed in ...

*GENEVA/TOKYO: *The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the United States could become the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, which finally forced reluctant organisers to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. Britain joined the ranks of countries in lockdown to try to hold ...

NEW DELHI - Indian PM Narendra Modi announces 21 days complete lockdown across entire country. In India, government has declared 21-day 'total lockdown' after increasing number of coronavirus cases across the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a televised address on Tuesday has announced ...

LONDON - Italy on Tuesday reported 743 new deaths from coronavirus, bringing the number of total deaths to 6,820, still the highest in the world. The latest figures provided by the Italian Civil Protection Department show that the total number of cases in the country continues to grow, but at ...

KABUL - At least four service members of the NATO-led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the alliance confirmed on Tuesday. In a brief statement, the mission said these are the first positive tests among the soldiers stationed in the war-ravaged ...

LONDON: A new research on Monday showed that Britain's strategy to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus could lead to up to 70,000 additional deaths this year. Fears are growing that the crisis in Britain is following the same path as the one currently devastating Italy. Prime Minister ...

NEW DELHI - Millions of Indians went into lockdown Sunday as the country brought most of its vast railway network to a halt in a bid to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus. Most domestic flights were grounded and shops shut their doors for the 14-hour curfew that is designed to test the ...

ISLAMABAD - The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus pandemic climbed to 14,759 on Monday, as per figures compiled by the US-based Johns Hopkins University. The data shows there have now been 341,365 confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease, COVID-19, since the virus emerged in Wuhan, ...

ISLAMABAD - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, a pool report said, amid an ongoing political crisis, a raging Taliban insurgency and rising coronavirus cases. Pompeo was set to meet with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani along with his archrival Abdullah ...