Italian ambassador, Luca Attanasio, and a policeman travelling with him were killed, says Italian foreign ministry

“We wrote letters, we protested, we went to court, we did everything,” Singh said. “But no one heard us.”

Total weekly doses will be raised to 80,000 next week from 60,000 doses this week

PM Jacinda Ardern had lifted a brief Covid-19 lockdown in Auckland last week

FM Wang Yi says people from many countries who have visited Xinjiang have learned the facts & the truth on the ground

India has confirmed presence of variants first identified in Brazil, Britain and South Africa

We should be very encouraged by these initial findings, says PHE’s strategic response director Susan Hopkins

City representatives agreed in January to remove the statue of William Beckford from its Guildhall home

Defence minister says increase will have a positive impact on ‘enhanced domestic procurement’

In a bizarre claim, Ayatollah Abbas urges his followers not to interact with people vaccinated for coronavirus

Medical care may see less change because there is little alternative to the high level of proximity they require

Snowstorm began on Wednesday evening, leading the authorities to shut down public transportation

It is targeting a 60% increase in annual revenues to more than 50 billion roubles ($675.33 million) by 2025

Ambassador Akram says “more permanent members will compound Council’s inequality and dysfunctionality”

European Union likely to impose travel bans and asset freezes on allies of Russian president say diplomats

Minister Gines says individuals were able to sidestep proper procedure for vaccinations due to ‘unintended confusion’

Further eroding confidence in the organisers’ ability to pull off the event during a coronavirus pandemic

Senior bankers have responded to the extra strain by opening up about their own vulnerabilities

China wants to know if the US may have trouble making F-35 fighter jets if China imposes an export ban

The government has said it has zero tolerance towards sexual violence

A week ago Britain’s media regulator had also revoked Chinese state television’s broadcast licence

2,000 people in 16 countries who took the drug lost more than 10 percent of their bodyweight