The intelligence community of the United States has been asked by President Joe Biden to files a report within 90 days on the likely origins of the Covid-19.    In a statement Biden said that he wants the intelligence community to "redouble" their investigative efforts into the origin...

In the two months of February and March, Hong Kong residents applied for 34,300 British visas under the new rules, which came into effect at the end of January. These figures were released by the UK Home Office on Thursday. The British Overseas National passport (BNO Visa) is a special type of visa...

The Suez Canal has cleared 34 vessels of the container ship owner Ever Given after the six-day blockage incident in late March, Suez Canal Authority spokesman George Safwat told. "Between March 29, when the Ever Given was taken off the shoal and traffic on the canal was reopened, and May 25, 34...

The cost of vaccination of at least 40 per cent of the population in all countries by the end of 2021 and at least 60 per cent by the first half of 2022 could bring an end to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which also set a price tag of $50bn for that...

At the end of the last week, the deadline Iran had given to the international community to reach a compromise on the nuclear deal expired. For now, however, Tehran is in no hurry to definitively deny the IAEA access to camera footage from Iranian nuclear facilities in the hope that the US will...

Social media companies in India have been ordered by the government to remove any content that gas reference to the words "Indian variant" of Covid-19 arguing that the variant has been identified as B.1.617 by the World Health Organization (WHO) and any reference to “Indian” should be identified as...

Members of the European Parliament approved by a majority vote a resolution that effectively freezes preparation and ratification of a new EU investment agreement with China because of Beijing's earlier imposition of counter-sanctions as well as human rights abuses of which the EU accuses China....

The UK government will pay up to $140,000 to farmers in England for agreeing to retire. London sees some elderly farmers as opponents of organic farming methods and is trying to encourage them to make way for young people. The UK government plans to pay elderly farmers in England who agree to...

Iran is preparing for the possible lifting of US sanctions and a return to the nuclear deal: the country is looking to boost oil exports on that backdrop, Bloomberg says. The state-owned National Iranian Oil Co. is now preparing oil fields for the Islamic Republic to return to the market and boost...