British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced another national lockdown. The step has been taken to contain a surge in the COVID-19 cases, threatens to overwhelm the health care system.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces another national lockdown

Pakistan's Hazaras community has refused to end its protest until Prime Minister Imran Khan visits the Balochistan. The minority Shia community has rejected the federal minister's request to end the sit-in.

Pakistan: Hazaras community refuses to end its protest until Pak PM meets them

The Afghanistan once was the heart of the silk route in Asia. Merchants use to come from far-off lands to get their hands in Afghanistan's silk. Back then, silk production was a booming industry, but centuries later silk producers disappear!

5,000 families left in silk production in Afghanistan, war diminishes demand for silk

The Iranian forces have seized a South Korean tanker in the state of Hormuz amidst the rising tensions with the United States in the final days of Donald Trump's Presidency.

Iran seizes South Korean tanker amidst rising tensions with the U.S.

South Korean tanker held by Iran in port of Bandar Abbas

With India being part of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as the non-permanent member from January 1, 2021, and UN 75 years of celebration (2020) hangover rolling over to next year, the debate on UNSC reforms continues, with no worthwhile progress, despite high pitch for reforms made by many countries including India.

India begins 2-year stint at UNSC: What values will guide India's approach?

Top U.S. infectious diseases expert, Anthony Fauci, warned on Sunday (January 3) the mutated strain of COVID-19 was in the U.S. and will spread. Several cases of a more infections variant of COVID-19 that has swept through the United Kingdom have been identified in the U.S. in recent days.

Fauci: US should vaccinate "the way clinical trials have instructed"

About a thousand people have had to be evacuated from Gjerdrum, which has a population of 5,000, because of fears for the safety of their homes.

Death count rises to 7 in Norway landslide horror

Sudan joins a new round of talks with Egypt and Ethiopia in a bid to resolve a long-running dispute over a huge Ethiopian dam on the Blue Nile.

Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia agrees to continue negotiations on Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

Wondering what life in 2021 may look like? On Episode 36 of Gravitas Plus, Palki Sharma Upadhyay brings you 6 trends that will dominate the year ahead & may shape our future beyond.

Gravitas Plus: 6 Trends that will rule 2021

Israel leads the vaccine race; administers 11.5 vaccination doses per 100 people. Over 10% of the country's population has been vaccinated so far. By the end of this month, the high-risk population will receive the second dose of the vaccine.

Israel administers 11.5 vaccination doses per 100 people

After days of extended search operations, rescue workers have found a fourth body after a huge ice landslide buried several homes in the residential area near Norway's capital.

Norway: Several missing after entire hillside collapsed

Britain will allow people to be given shots of different COVID-19 vaccines on rare occasions, despite a lack of evidence about the extent of immunity offered by mixing doses.

UK to allow mixing of COVID-19 vaccines on rare occasions

Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday said that Indian government had approved emergency use of AstraZeneca/ Oxford University coronavirus vaccine, also known as Covishield in India. The minister said that the government had given a go-ahead on Friday

India: AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine approved for emergency use

The Wuhan Virus ruined all resolutions for 2020. The virus from China killed 2 Million people, snatched 400 million jobs, pushed countries into recession, forced students to drop out of school. Palki Sharma Upadhyay says- make it your new year resolution to Make China Pay.

Gravitas Plus: Who will bear the cost of the Pandemic?

Scientists are trying to understand Ukraine's Primeval Beech Forest's regeneration. Watch this video to know more.

Scientists trying to understand Ukraine's Primeval Beech Forest's regeneration

Hundreds of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East were left stranded in the open air on Wednesday when an attempt to relocate them to another site in Bosnia after fire wrecked their temporary camp failed, police and migrants said.

Bosnian military sets up tents for stuck migrants

In this segment of WION In Focus, watch some stories related to coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

WION In Focus: Some stories related to coronavirus pandemic

After a massive rave party in northwestern France, the Macron government has decided to impose night curfew in 15 northeastern and southeastern areas which will be starting from 6 pm, instead of 8 pm every night.

France imposes night curfew in 15 regions to contain COVID-19 cases

Drugmakers including Pfizer Inc, Sanofi SA, and GlaxoSmithKline Plc plan to raise U.S. prices on more than 300 drugs in the United States on Jan. 1, according to drugmakers and data analyzed by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors.

Fineprint: Drugmakers to hike prices for 2021 as pandemic, political pressure put revenues at risk

China dispatched top Communist party officials to Kathmandu amid a high-stakes power struggle. Why is Beijing intent on keeping the Nepal Communist Party in power? Palki Sharma Upadhyay gets you a report.

Gravitas: China rushes high-level delegation to Nepal

Zhang Zhan was one of the several citizen journalists to reveal the chaos within Wuhan when the outbreak was at its peak. Now she has been put behind bars for 4 years. Palki Sharma Upadhyay tells you more.

Gravitas: The scribe that exposed Wuhan's truth: UN calls for Zhang Zhan's release

A senior Chinese official arrived in Kathmandu on Sunday to assess the political situation, local party officials said, a first diplomatic step by the neighbouring power after Nepal’s Prime Minister dissolved parliament a week ago.

WION Dispatch: Beijing's CPC leader meets Nepal PM KP Sharma Oli

A cholita hairdresser livens the long hours of waiting for her clients at a hair salon in El Alto, Bolivia with up with traditional indigenous dances.

Singing and dancing cholita hairdresser livens up salon experience

A Pakistani court on Thursday ordered the immediate release of four men accused of orchestrating the 2002 kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, including the main suspect earlier sentenced to death for masterminding the killing. The Sindh government in a surprise move has now decided not to release killers. Watch this video to know more.

Pakistan's Sindh government not to release four accused in Daniel Pearl’s murder case

Have you heard of the ISI? Pakistan calls it an Intelligence wing. In reality, it is a death squad. The ISI has been linked to 5000+ disappearances in Balochistan, mysterious deaths in Western countries, the murder of an Indian diplomat, and the plot to assassinate of an Afghan President. Palki Sharma Upadhyay tells you all you need about the hit squad.

Gravitas Plus: Pakistan's high-profile assassins

Have you heard of the ISI? Pakistan calls it an Intelligence wing. In reality, it is a death squad. The ISI has been linked to 5000+ disappearances in Balochistan, mysterious deaths in Western countries, the murder of an Indian ambassador, and the plot to assassinate of an Afghan President. Palki Sharma Upadhyay tells you all you need about the hit squad.

Health officials in Ontario said on Saturday that two confirmed cases of the new coronavirus variant first detected in the United Kingdom have appeared in the Canadian province.

Canada's Ontario finds two cases of virus variant first seen in UK

Birds of a feather normally flock together, but the pandemic has firmly wedged Canada's infamous "snowbirds" in two camps: those staying home this winter and those heading to Florida no matter the cost, financial or otherwise.

Canadian 'snowbirds' weigh Florida mid-pandemic

#GravitasPlus | 2020 felt like a Shakespearean Catharsis. We all want to delete it from our lives. Palki Sharma Upadhyay says save it. Here's why.

Gravitas Plus: Don't delete 2020 from your lives

Daniel Pearl was kidnapped & beheaded by Pakistani terrorists in 2002. 18 years on, a Pakistani court has ordered the 'immediate release' of his killers.

Gravitas: Pak court orders release of Daniel Pearl's killers

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