Manila [Philippines], March 31 (ANI): Germany and France have joined a number of countries to express concern on the growing tensions between China and the Philippines over a disputed reef in the South China Sea where over 200 Chinese vessels are moored.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 31 (ANI): NCP chief Sharad Pawar is doing well after an operation, informed Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Tuesday.
Helsinki [Finland], March 31 (ANI): Finnish pulp and paper giant Stora Enso has announced that it will 'divest' from making the raw ingredient needed to produce wood-based viscose rayon fibre, amid reports of links between the company and forced labour in Xinjiang.
Washington [US], March 31 (ANI): Synchronous caregiving from birth to adulthood tunes humans' social brain, said researchers in a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).
Washington [US], March 31 (ANI): A more accessible court system would help individuals with minimal resources overcome procedural hurdles facing divorce, according to the researchers whose findings were published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of Amer
Beijing [China] March 31 (ANI): China is ramping up efforts to promote Mandarin language education and to Sinicise Islam in Xinjiang, despite the growing international outcry over its policies against Uyghurs in the province.
Washington [US], March 31 (ANI): Amid escalating tensions with Beijing, the Biden administration on Tuesday (local time) declared Chinese actions against the Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang as 'genocide'.
Rabat [Morocco], March 31 (ANI/Xinhua): Morocco's COVID-19 tally rose to 495,421 on Tuesday as 665 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours, the Moroccan Health Ministry said.
Santiago [Chile], March 31 (ANI/Xinhua): Chile's Health Ministry reported on Tuesday 5,394 new COVID-19 cases and 37 more deaths in the past 24 hours, for a total caseload of 989,492 infections and 23,107 deaths.
Ankara [Turkey], March 31 (ANI/Xinhua): Turkey reported 37,303 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, breaking its record of single-day infections since the outbreak of the pandemic, according to its health ministry.