Tokyo [Japan], March 27 (ANI): The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board (EB) has decided to grant accreditation only to people who have essential and operational roles at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
Tokyo [Japan], March 25 (ANI): The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday congratulated the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee on the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay, in Fukushima, Japan.
Fukushima [Japan], March 25 (ANI): The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay kicked off in Fukushima on Thursday. It will travel through all of the country's 47 prefectures over the next 121 days before arriving in Tokyo for the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony on July 23.
Toronto [Canada], March 23 (ANI): Canada has imposed sanctions on four Chinese officials and one entity in coordination with the United States and the United Kingdom, citing human rights violations in Xinjiang province.
Toronto [Canada], March 19 (ANI/Sputnik): The sentencing of the perpetrator of the deadly 2018 Toronto van attack has been put over until May 31, an Attorney General Ministry spokesperson told Sputnik.
Toronto [Canada], March 18 (ANI): Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau on Wednesday said that the trial of two Canadians charged with espionage in China will begin on Friday.
Yangon [Myanmar], March 18 (ANI): China faces a rising dilemma in the ongoing crisis in Myanmar after unknown assailants torched at least ten Chinese-financed factories in Yangon's Hlaing Tharyar Industrial Zone on Sunday.
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], March 16 (ANI): Myanmar authorities declared martial law in parts of Yangon after several Chinese-owned garment factories were torched on Sunday over Beijing being supportive of the military for the coup thereby threatening the country's fragile economy.
Washington DC [US], March 14 (ANI): A recent study presented at ESC Acute Cardiovascular Care 2021 -- an online scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) -- found that chest pain is misdiagnosed in women more frequently than in men. The research likewise found that ladi
Addis Ababa [Ethopia], March 12 (ANI/Sputnik): There are widespread concerns that overcrowding at refugee centers and lack of health facilities will drive disease outbreaks in Ethiopia's conflict-torn Tigray region, a UNICEF spokesman told Sputnik.
New Delhi [India], March 11 (ANI): Billboards have come up in the Greater Toronto area thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing COVID-19 vaccines to Canada.
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 8 (ANI): Reiterating that several Taliban leaders are based in Pakistan, the Afghan government on Monday said Islamabad is a direct party to the Afghanistan conflict and treating it as a "normal neighbour" would not help the peace process in the war-torn country.