Spinal cord implant helps paralysed patients walk again

TOKYO: In 2017, Michel Roccati was in a motorbike accident that left his lower body completely paralysed. In 2020, he walked again, thanks to...

Myanmar junta chief said Asean envoy can meet Suu Kyi party...

Myanmar military leader Min Aung Hlaing agreed to arrange for an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) special envoy from Cambodia to meet members...

Fearing junta, hundreds of Myanmar parents disown dissident children

Every day for the last three months, an average of six or seven families in Myanmar have posted notices in the country's state-owned newspapers...

Cuba marks six decades under US sanctions

HAVANA: Cuba on Monday marks 60 years under a US economic blockade that has deeply affected the communist nation's fortunes and shows no signs...

‘Widespread damage’ feared as Cyclone Batsirai hits Madagascar

VATOMANDRY (MADAGASCAR) - Cyclone Batsirai struck Madagascar's eastern region on Saturday with strong winds and heavy rain, the second storm to hit the island...

Cyclone Batsirai nears Madagascar, ‘widespread damage’ feared

VATOMANDRY (MADAGASCAR) - Powerful Cyclone Batsirai was closing in on eastern Madagascar Saturday as residents sought secure shelter or reinforced their roofs with sandbags...

Cyclone Batsirai closes in on eastern Madagascar

VATOMANDRY (MADAGASCAR) - As powerful Cyclone Batsirai closed in on eastern Madagascar on Saturday people sought shelter in more secure concrete buildings while others...

Covid keeps Winter Olympics opening a muted affair

BEIJING: President Xi Jinping declared the Beijing Winter Olympics open on Friday as China tried to turn the page on a build-up overshadowed by...

Morocco rescuers close in on boy trapped in well

BAB BERRED (MOROCCO) - Moroccans waited anxiously Friday as rescuers with heavy diggers closed in on Rayan, a five-year-old boy trapped in a deep...

US claims evidence of Moscow plan for ‘false flag’ Ukrainian attack

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said Thursday it had evidence of a plan by Moscow to film a fake Ukrainian attack on Russians to justify...