Washington, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) The US Supreme Court has ruled that the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot can access records related to the deadly attack, dealing a blow to former President…
Moscow, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi discussed bilateral economic cooperation and other international issues during their first meeting here. This is Putin and Raisi’s first in-person meeting…
Kiev, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed the security situation in and around Kiev during their meeting here. According to Zelensky’s press service, the two…
London, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that next week will see the end of Plan B Covid restrictions, which include mandatory rules for mask-wearing, vaccine certificates and guidance to work from…
Seoul, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) North Korea has decided to grant convicted people amnesty, effective later this month, on the occasion of major birth anniversary celebrations of its late leaders, Pyongyang’s state media said on Thursday….
Seoul, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) South Korea has detected signs of North Korea preparing for a military parade ahead of the regime’s key political events, an official said here on Thursday. The North is set to…
Seoul, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) North Korea held a policymaking politburo meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party presided over by leader Kim Jong-un and decided to consider restarting “all temporally-suspended” activities, apparently referring to its nuclear…
Wellington, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) A Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130 Hercules on Thursday departed Base Auckland Whenuapai carrying aid supplies for the tsunami-hot Tonga. “The aircraft is carrying humanitarian aid and disaster relief supplies,…
Washington, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) US President Joe Biden’s administration will start shipping 400 million free non-surgical N95 face masks to distribution sites nationwide this week as part of efforts to fight the Omicron-fuelled Covid-19 resurgence,…
New York, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) New York State Attorney General Letitia James has filed a motion to compel former President Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump to testify in an investigation on the…
London, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pressure is mounting on the Bank of England (BoE) to raise interest rates as the UK’s Consumer Prices Index (CPI) in December 2021 hit its highest level since early 1992. Official…
Stockholm, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) In the wake of the Covid-19 resurgence in Sweden, the country’s police and the transportation are witnessing a massive staff shortage as many of them have been infected with the virus….
United Nations, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Although needs assessment has expanded for Tonga volcano disaster relief while aid efforts have also scaled up, delivery is however being delayed by distance and ash-laden runways, the UN humanitarians…
Ottawa, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Canada’s annual rate of inflation rose to 4.8 per cent in December 2021, the highest since 1991 due to higher prices for food, passenger vehicles and housing, according to Statistics Canada….
New Delhi, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Halting, then reversing the dangerous, ongoing loss of Earth’s plant and animal diversity requires far more than an expanded global system of protected areas of land and seas, scientists warned….
Washington, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Amid the unabated Covid-19 resurgence fuelled by the highly-transmissible Omicron variant, the US has again logged over 1 million new cases after setting a global record of over 1.36 million fresh…
United Nations, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Abdulla Shahid, president of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, has stressed the need for hope and warned against cynicism. “Throughout all our efforts, there is one constant…
Kabul, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Deborah Lyons, the UN’s top envoy in Afghanistan, announced that the world body will ask $8 billion from donors as aid to help the war-torn nation amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis,…
Kabul, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) The International Labour Organization (ILO) has announced that half a million people in Afghanistan have lost their jobs since the Taliban took over the country last August, adding that women have…
Washington, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Amid an ongoing resurgence across the world, the global coronavirus caseload has topped 337.1 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.56 million and vaccinations to over 9.71 billion,…