Amman, Feb 26 : Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi has said that the Kingdom would continue to work extensively to ensure adequate aid reaches the Gaza Strip. Safadi made the...

Sanaa, Feb 26 : A man was killed and six members of his family were injured in Yemen’s southwestern province of Taiz in the latest overnight airstrike by the US-British...

Damascus, Feb 25 : An Israeli airstrike killed three civilians in Homs province in central Syria on Sunday. According to reports from the Al-Watan newspaper, the attack targeted two civilian...

Damascus, Feb 25 : The Syrian army on Sunday destroyed seven weaponised drones in the governorates of Hama and Idlib, the Syrian Defence Ministry said in a statement. The drones...

Gaza, Feb 25 : At least 29,692 Palestinians have been killed and 69,879 injured during the war in Gaza, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said on Sunday in a statement. These...

Kiev, Feb 25 : The Ukrainian authorities have not yet received a response to an invitation to visit Ukraine from former US President Donald Trump or his team, media reported...

Kiev, Feb 25 : The Ukrainian authorities have not yet received a response to an invitation to visit Ukraine from former US President Donald Trump or his team, media reported...

Washington, Feb 25 : More Russian soldiers have likely died while seizing Donetsk town of Avdiivka, in eastern Ukraine, than in the entire Soviet-Afghan war, Institute for the Study of...

New Delhi, Feb 25 : In the backdrop of 2023 being the warmest year on record, with resultant heatwaves, storms and droughts causing havoc, heads of state and more than...

Seoul, Feb 25 : South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attended a church service on Sunday, marking the 1919 independence movement against Japanese colonial rule, his office said. Yoon’s visit...

Vladivostok, Feb 25 : Early voting in remote areas for the Russian presidential election has begun in the regions of the Far East, local media reported on Sunday. Quoted by...

Tel Aviv, Feb 25 : The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Sunday that it had nabbed several terror operatives, who attempted to hide among a group of civilians evacuating...

Kiev, Feb 25 : Ukraine’s air defence forces destroyed 16 Russian Shahed combat unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the sky over Ukraine overnight on Sunday, media reported. According to Ukrinform...

Kiev, Feb 25 : Canada will provide Ukraine with 169 million Canadian dollars (CAD) (about $130 million) for several reconstruction and development programmes, media reported on Sunday. According to Ukrinform...

Kiev, Feb 25 : The Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated about 409,820 Russian armed personnel in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to February 25, 2024, including 810 Russian armed personnel...

Kiev, Feb 25 : There have been 84 combat clashes between Ukrainian defence forces and Russian forces on the frontline in Ukraine in the past 24 hours, media reported on...

Mumbai, Feb 25 : Geeta Batra, an Indian economist, has been named as the new Director at the Independent Evaluation Office of the World Bank’s Global Environment Facility (GEF), making...

Tel Aviv, Feb 25 : The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday announced the death of a soldier killed in battle in south Gaza, raising the death toll of Israel’s...

Seoul, Feb 25 : North Korea’s recent removal of unification references could create an ideological vacuum or confusion among the elite ranks, leading the regime to carry out a military...

Seoul, Feb 25 : South Korean Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok will leave for Brazil this week to attend a G20 meeting of finance chiefs and central bankers to discuss global...

Seoul, Feb 25 : South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul met this week with the country’s business officials in New York and pledged the government’s support for their overseas expansion,...

Tel Aviv, Feb 25 : The Israel delegation led by Chief of Mossad David Barnea and Director of Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, are back in Jerusalem after marathon mediatory talks...

Washington, Feb 25 : Former US President Donald Trump tightened his grip on the Republican nomination for the White House defeating Nikki Haley, former UN ambassador and the only other...

Washington, Feb 25 : Former US President Donald Trump tightened his grip on the Republican nomination for the White House defeating Nikki Haley, former UN ambassador and the only other...

Moscow, Feb 25 : The body of leading Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has been returned to his mother, his spokesperson has said. In a post on X, Kira Yarmysh...

Washington, Feb 25 : Former US President Donald Trump has defeated the country’s former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in the South Carolina Republican primary, multiple media organizations...

Rome, Feb 25 : The Italian government has announced a bilateral support agreement with Ukraine ahead of the Group of Seven (G7) leaders’ meeting under Italy’s presidency. Both events were...

Cairo, Feb 25 : Egypt has denied reports which claimed that Israeli aircraft breached its airspace, according to an unnamed Egyptian security source. Egypt on Saturday categorically denied media reports...

Jerusalem, Feb 25 : Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he will seek Cabinet approval next week for a ground operation in the southern Gazan city of Rafah,...

Islamabad, Feb 24 : Despite the passage of seven days, the services of social media giant X, formerly Twitter, remained suspended across Pakistan even though the authorities are yet to...

New Delhi, Feb 24 : An interesting feature of the FPI trend recently is the decline in FPI equity outflows despite the rising bond yields in the US, says V...

Singapore, Feb 24 : One person was killed after a fire broke out in an apartment in Singapore on Saturday, civil defence forces said. The fire that broke out at...

Washington, Feb 24 : US Secretary of state department Antony Blinken has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war not only threatens Ukraine but also Washington, NATO allies and free...

Seoul, Feb 24 : Health services were affected in South Korea as thousands of trainee doctors remained off their jobs for the fifth consecutive day on Saturday to protest against...

Tehran, Feb 24 : An earthquake, measuring 4.9 on the Richter Scale, jolted Iran on Saturday. The temblor that hit southern Iran at 0734 GMT was epicentred at 27.684 degrees...

Kyiv, Feb 24 : European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has arrived in Kyiv to show solidarity with Ukraine on the second anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion. In...

Washington, Feb 24 : Two soldiers were killed after a military helicopter crashed during training in the US state of Mississippi. Taking to X, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves posted: “The...

Tel Aviv, Feb 24 : A Hamas delegation — which is in Paris for negotiations for a ceasefire deal with Israel — has come down on many of its demands....

Tehran, Feb 24 : The Iranian forces have killed senior Jaish al-Adl militant group commander Ismail Shahbakhsh and some of his companions in Pakistan, a media report said. The development...

Washington, Feb 24 : Calling on Alabama lawmakers to protect fertility treatment, former US President Donald Trump has said that he supports the availability of IVF treatment. Trump made the...

Washington, Feb 24 : Calling on Alabama lawmakers to protect fertility treatment, former US President Donald Trump has said that he supports the availability of IVF treatment. Trump made the...

Washington, Feb 24 : South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul has expressed concerns over growing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia, saying it could potentially help Pyongyang’s ability to...

Nanjing, Feb 24 : The death toll from the building fire that broke out on Friday in Nanjing, the capital city of China’s Jiangsu province, has climbed to 15, local...

Gaza, Feb 24 : An Israeli airstrike on a house in the central Gaza Strip has reportedly killed at least 22 Palestinians and wounded others. The house in Deir el-Balah...

Warsaw, Feb 24 : The European Commission (EC) is set to release up to 137 billion euros ($148 billion) of funding for Poland, EC President Ursula von der Leyen has...

United Nations, Feb 24 : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an end to the Ukraine crisis. He made the appeal on Friday at a Security Council meeting scheduled...

Tehran, Feb 24 : Iran has denied Western media reports that it had sold ballistic missiles to Russia for use against Ukraine, saying it was morally bound to avoid fuelling...

Budapest, Feb 24 : Hungary has signed an agreement to buy four new Gripen fighter jets from Sweden ahead of the Hungarian parliament’s vote on Sweden’s NATO accession scheduled for...

Stockholm, Feb 24 : Seven people were hospitalised with respiratory problems after the Swedish Security Service’s headquarters in Stockholm were evacuated due to a gas leak. The alarm was raised...

Kiev, Feb 24 : Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleschuk has said that the Ukrainian military shot down another Russian A-50 surveillance aircraft. “I am grateful to the Main Intelligence...

Washington, Feb 23 : The US has hit Russia with 500 new sanctions on Friday over the death of jailed Opposition leader Aleksey Navalny and the ongoing war against Ukraine,...

Hanoi, Feb 23 : One fisherman died, six injured and two others went missing on Friday morning after a fishing boat crashed with a cargo ship in the sea off...

Dhaka, Feb 23 : Bangladeshi Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdur Rahman has said the government has a plan to produce foot and mouth disease (FMD) vaccine for livestock locally as...

Manila, Feb 23 : Six people — a police officer and five suspected NPA rebels — were killed in a clash in Bohol province in Philippines on Friday, the military...

Rio de Janeiro, Feb 23 : Recalling the consensus achieved in the G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration (NDLD), Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs V Muraleedharan has...

Sydney, Feb 23 : Homes were gutted due to bushfires fanned up by heat and blustery conditions in Australian state of Victoria, authorities said on Friday. Victoria Premier Jacinta Allan...

Manila, Feb 23 : The Philippines has become the first Asian country to ratify a convention to end workplace violence and harassment, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said on Friday....

Los Angeles, Feb 23 : US company Intuitive Machines’ first lunar lander touched down on the moon early Friday morning, marking the first American spacecraft to land on the lunar...

Nanjing, Feb 23 : Four people were killed after a building fire broke out Friday morning in the city of Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province. The fire broke...

Los Angeles, Feb 23 : US company Intuitive Machines’ first lunar lander has touched down on the moon, marking the first American spacecraft to land on the lunar surface in...

Gaza, Feb 23 : The Israeli army sent four armoured personnel carriers into Nasser Hospital shortly after it withdrew troops from the facility, the Gaza-based Palestinian health ministry has said...

Gaza, Feb 23 : At least 40 Palestinians were killed and 100 others injured in Israeli airstrikes on the central Gaza Strip, the media office of the Hamas-run government in...

Sanaa, Feb 23 : Yemen’s Houthi group has said it had launched attacks on an Israeli city, a British cargo ship, and a US warship, in what it called a...

Jerusalem, Feb 23 : Israel’s war cabinet decided on Thursday night to send a delegation for Gaza ceasefire talks in Paris on Friday, as international negotiators renew efforts to secure...

Abuja, Feb 23 : At least 72 fatal cases of Lassa fever have been reported in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, since the beginning of this year, public health authorities...

Sanaa, Feb 23 : Yemen’s armed Houthi group has claimed responsibility for launching missile attacks against a British cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden. “The naval forces of the...

Gaza, Feb 23 : Israeli army troops have reportedly withdrawn from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis city of the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces on Thursday withdrew “completely” from the...

Islamabad, Feb 22 : Withdrawing all his allegations related to rigging in the February 8 general elections in Pakistan, former Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha said he was “extremely ashamed,...

New York, Feb 22 : US stocks soared higher on Thursday after a strong earnings report from tech giant Nvidia bolstered investor optimism on Wall Street, a media report said....

Gaza, Feb 22 : The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza has risen to 29,410, with 69,465 others wounded since the Israel-Hamas war broke out, authorities...

Rawalpindi, Feb 22 : Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan will write to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), demanding to stop its support for Pakistan due to the “rigged elections”,...

Hong Kong, Feb 22 : China is one of the most expensive places in the world to raise a child in relative terms, a new report said, with the disproportionate...

Beijing, Feb 22 : Five people were killed after a cargo ship rammed into a bridge, leading to collapse of a portion of the structure on Thursday morning in China’s...

Islamabad, Feb 22 : Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday announced to hold intra-party polls on March 3. Previous intra-party polls were declared unconstitutional by the Election Commission of Pakistan and...

Moscow, Feb 22 : Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev Thursday said that Russia-US ties will not improve in the coming years and even decades. In an interview to...

Tokyo, Feb 22 : Japan’s main stock index has hit an all-time closing high, surpassing the previous record set 34 years ago, a media report said. The Nikkei 225 rose...

Jerusalem, Feb 22 : At least one person was killed and eight others injured on Thursday in shooting near the occupied West Bank in Jerusalem, according to Israeli police and...

Washington, Feb 22 : The US has asked Pakistan to respect freedom of expression and restore access to X and social media platforms. On disruptions on social media in Pakistan,...

Beijing, Feb 22 : Two people were killed and three others went missing after a cargo ship rammed into bridge, leading to collapse of a portion of the structure on...

Tokyo, Feb 22 : Train services on Japan’s JR Yokosuka line between Tokyo and Yokohama stations were suspended on Thursday due to concrete on tracks in a tunnel. Multiple pieces...

Caracas, Feb 22 : Fifteen people were killed and 11 others injured after a mine collapsed in La Paragua in Venezuela’s Bolivar state. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said search and...

Tel Aviv, Feb 22 : The Israel Minister without portfolio and member of War Cabinet in the government, Benny Gantz has said that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was prepared...

Buenos Aires, Feb 22 : Railway workers in Argentina went on a 24-hour nationwide strike, demanding better wages as the government announced it might fine those “responsible” for organising the...

Mogadishu, Feb 22 : More than 3.45 million people had been internally displaced in Somalia as of January 2024 due to multiple shocks, including drought, floods, and conflict, the UN...

Gaza, Feb 22 : At least 17 Palestinians were killed and more than 34 others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the...

Bucharest, Feb 22 : Romania is set to hold its presidential election in September, as confirmed by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, who is also the Chairman of the Social Democratic...

Sanaa, Feb 22 : US warplanes launched five airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, media reported. The strikes hit in the area of Ras Issa in the...

Aden (Yemen), Feb 22 : Yemen’s internationally recognised government has expressed strong condemnation for the Houthi group’s assault on a commercial ship carrying 40,000 ton of grain intended for the...

Kiev, Feb 22 : The first group of four Ukrainian pilots will complete their training on the F-16 jets by summer, the media reported. The pilots started their training to...

Los Angeles, Feb 22 : The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a clinical trials network to evaluate emerging technologies for cancer screening, the agency said. The Cancer...

Beirut, Feb 22 : Two civilians were killed and three others injured during Israeli raids targeting southwest Lebanon, Lebanese medical and military sources told the media. According to official sources...

London, Feb 22 : The UK High Court on Wednesday concluded its two-day hearing on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s appeal against his extradition to the US on espionage charges, but...

Tehran, Feb 22 : Iran’s Oil Minister Javad Owji has said that the blasts that hit the country’s gas transfer pipelines a week ago were an “Israeli conspiracy”. On the...

Jerusalem, Feb 22 : Israel will send a delegation for Gaza ceasefire talks in Cairo only after it receives more indications that Hamas is willing to “soften its stance,” an...

Gaborone, Feb 22 : Botswana has recorded an increase in the number of people with influenza-like illness and Covid-19 in its facilities, a government official said in a statement. Over...

Gaza, Feb 22 : The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has warned that food insecurity in the northern Gaza Strip had...

Nairobi, Feb 22 : International solidarity will be key to phasing out short-lived climate pollutants or super pollutants that include methane, black carbon, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), senior United Nations Environment...

Damascus, Feb 22 : Israel conducted its second missile attack on areas southwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus within hours, according to reports from a war monitor and local...

Jenin, Feb 22 : One Palestinian was killed and two others were wounded during an Israeli military raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, Palestinian sources said....

Gaza, Feb 22 : The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 29,313, with 69,333 others wounded, as the Israel-Hamas conflict continues, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said...

Beijing, Feb 22 : China’s national observatory has renewed an orange alert for cold waves in various regions of south China, forecasting sharp temperature drops. The orange alert, the highest...

Tokyo, Feb 22 : The number of foreign visitors to Japan in January came to 2,688,100, reaching the pre-pandemic level in 2019, government data showed. The latest figure surged 79.5...

Ankara, Feb 22 : Turkish police have detained 67 suspects over their alleged links to a network accused of orchestrating a coup attempt in 2016, the country’s Interior Minister Ali...

Suva, Feb 22 : Fiji is taking proactive steps to strengthen its counter-terrorism capabilities, with a three-day workshop underway in the island nation, according to Mason Smith, permanent secretary for...

New Delhi, Feb 21 : The Indian Navy deployed in the Gulf of Aden rendered medical assistance to an Iranian fishing vessel (FV) with 18 Pakistani crew members on board,...

Quetta, Feb 21 : Widespread protests persisted against alleged poll rigging in Quetta and other regions of Balochistan, marking a significant escalation in unrest, a media report said. The four-party...

Kathmandu, Feb 21 ( IANS) Nepal is witnessing a growing call for the restoration of the Hindu state. The erstwhile Hindu state, adopted federal, secular, and democratic identity in 2008....

New Delhi, Feb 21 : Twenty-three lakh Indian diaspora are reinforcing New Delhi-Ottawa relations and contributing to the development of both nations, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and...

Manila, Feb 21 : At least 14 people were killed and three others were critically injured on Wednesday after a truck fell off a cliff in Negros Oriental province of...

Damascus, Feb 21 : Two people were killed and another injured on Wednesday in an Israeli missile strike on a residential building here, the Syrian Defence Ministry said. The Israeli...

Tel Aviv, Feb 21 : The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have stepped up its search operations for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, widely believed to be the mastermind of the October...

New York, Feb 21 : Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi is planning to run for the US Senate in 2026, according to a top US magazine that has placed the representative...

Islamabad, Feb 21 : PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif is set to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan while PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari is slated to be the President of...

Paris, Feb 21 : The French Navy has shot down two aerial drones from Yemen over the Red Sea where Houthi attacks have targeted international commercial vessels, the French Ministry...

Washington, Feb 21 : Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, former US ambassador to the United Nations and former Governor of South Carolina, has said that she is not dropping out...

Doha, Feb 21 : The Qatari government has said that Hamas has confirmed the receipt of a shipment of medicines and the commencement of their delivery to beneficiaries among the...

Budapest, Feb 21 : Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party has said that its parliamentary group will ratify Sweden’s NATO accession on February 26. Mate Kocsis, leader of the...

Islamabad, Feb 22 : Pakistan’s two major political parties, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), agreed to form a coalition government in Centre, leaders of the two...

Gaza, Feb 21 : At least 12 Palestinians were killed during an Israeli attack on a residential square in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, according to...

Rome, Feb 21 : Temporary restrictions were enforced in northern Italy, especially the Lombardy region, on Tuesday in response to persistent high levels of air pollution. These measures were initiated...

Tokyo, Feb 21 : Warm air flowing from the south drove temperatures higher in Japan’s Pacific Ocean coast regions on Tuesday, with record-high temperatures recorded at many locations, the weather...

Ramallah, Feb 21 : Palestine has rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks about Israel’s security control over the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, considering it a challenge to...

London, Feb 21 : WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange began his final legal challenge in the UK on Tuesday against his extradition to the US on espionage charges. The UK approved...

Colombo, Feb 21 : A total of 73 school children from Passara National School in Sri Lanka’s Uva province were admitted to hospital following a wasp attack, police said. Piyaratna...

Sanaa, Feb 21 : Yemen’s Houthi group warned the European Union (EU) not to join the coalition of the US and Britain in the Red Sea, otherwise its ships would...

Kabul, Feb 21 : The Afghan caretaker government has allowed girls graduating from 12th grade to get admission to state-owned medical institutes, the media reported. “The enrolment of girls who...

Beirut, Feb 21 : A four-storey building in the Choueifat area, south of Lebanon’s capital Beirut, collapsed two days ago, killing four people and injuring four others. The National News...

Gaza, Feb 21 : The Gaza-based Health Ministry said that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 29,195 with 69,170 others wounded as the Israeli attacks continue....

Wellington, Feb 21 : New Zealand will bring back over-the-counter sales of cold and flu drugs in pharmacies by getting rid of unnecessary red tape. This act allows New Zealanders...

Gaza, Feb 21 : Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh arrived in Cairo to hold talks with Egyptian officials on the Gaza truce. Hamas said on Tuesday in a brief statement sent...

Kuala Lumpur, Feb 21 : Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is recovering even as he remains hospitalised, his press team said. The 98-year-old, who has a history of heart...

United Nations, Feb 21 : With an Israeli attack looming on Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians are huddling, the US on Tuesday vetoed a Security Council opposing “forced...

Rawalpindi, Feb 20 : Imran Khan’s sister Aleema Khan said on Tuesday that the PTI chief has termed the February 8 general elections in Pakistan as “mother of all rigging”,...

Kuala Lumpur, Feb 20 : Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who is hospitalised in the National Heart Institute, is recovering, his press team said on Tuesday. The 98-year-old leader,...

Hong Kong, Feb 20 : China’s central bank has cut its key mortgage reference rate by a record amount, as it ramps up efforts to stem a prolonged property crisis,...

Seoul, Feb 20 : More than 6,400 trainee doctors have submitted their resignations to protest the South Korean government’s plan of boosting the number of medical students, leading to delays...

Canberra, Feb 20 : Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles and Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy on Tuesday announced the major overhaul in Navy and said the...

Tel Aviv, Feb 20 : With the ceasefire mooted by the US, Egypt and Qatar in the ongoing war between Hamas and Israel not gaining traction, US President Joe Biden’s...

Moscow, Feb 20 : Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was reported to have collapsed after a walk, has accused Russian President Valadimir Putin of...

London, Feb 20 : Members of the Sikh community in the UK have slammed the University of Birmingham for confusing them with Muslims in a social media post, saying that...

Los Angeles, Feb 20 : New rounds of heavy rain soaked large portions of Southern California, and up to 37 million people are under flood alerts. A low-pressure system in...

Gaza, Feb 20 : The Palestinian death toll resulting from the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has surpassed 29,000, the Gaza-based Health Ministry announced. According to a press...

Tehran, Feb 20 : Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has called on the United Nations to prevent a possible major Israeli offensive on the city of Rafah in southern Gaza....

Doha, Feb 20 : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that international representatives have reached consensus on some key issues concerning Afghanistan after a two-day meeting in Doha, but obstacles...

Brasilia, Feb 20 : The Brazilian government has called its ambassador in Tel Aviv, Frederico Meyer, back to the country for consultations after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva voiced...

Washington, Feb 20 : US President Joe Biden has said that he is willing to meet with House Speaker Mike Johnson in order to secure the long-awaited passage of a...

Gaza, Feb 20 : Eight patients have died in a major hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis city after days of power outage and oxygen supply shortage due to continuous...

United Nations, Feb 20 : At least 25 million people across Sudan, South Sudan and Chad are struggling with soaring rates of hunger and malnutrition as the crisis in Sudan...

Geneva, Feb 20 : The UK’s recent legislative moves to facilitate the removal of asylum-seekers to Rwanda run contrary to the basic principles of the rule of law and risk...

Sanaa, Feb 20 : Yemen’s Houthi group has announced that they launched missile attacks against two US ships in the Gulf of Aden, saying the hits were “accurate”. In a...

New York, Feb 20 : US Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, Rena Bitter, arrived in India to engage with embassy and consulate colleagues in Chennai, Mumbai and New...

Jakarta, Feb 20 : The number of poll workers who died in Indonesia’s general election rose to 71, official sources said. “Reports up until February 18 indicate that there were...

Jakarta, Feb 20 : Indonesia has established its first hydrogen refueling station for hydrogen-fuelled vehicles and was planned to be launched at the end of this month, Indonesia’s electricity firm...

Tokyo, Feb 20 : Temperatures rose across Japan as warm air flowed in from the south, with daytime highs hitting a record for February at many locations in northern Japan,...

Moscow, Feb 20 : Russian forces have taken full control of the Avdiivka coke and chemical plant, the country’s Defence Ministry said in a statement. It said on Monday that...

Tehran, Feb 20 : Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has dismissed the recent comments by the head of the UN nuclear organisation that Iran was not fully transparent about...

Addis Ababa, Feb 20 : The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that it has established 17 standard cholera treatment centres in Ethiopia to support the country’s efforts in combating...

Brussels, Feb 20 : The European Union (EU) has said it launched a naval mission in the Red Sea and the Gulf regions to safeguard its commercial and security interests....

Beirut, Feb 20 : A massive explosion was heard after Israeli warplanes hit with air-to-surface missiles multiple targets in the southern town of Ghazieh, around 45 km from Lebanon’s capital...

Addis Ababa, Feb 20 : The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has said that 10.8 million children in Ethiopia are in need of emergency humanitarian aid in 2024. In its...

Sanaa, Feb 20 : The US-British maritime coalition launched an airstrike on the Yemeni Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, the media reported. The strike hit in the area of...

Nairobi, Feb 19 : On the weekend of February 24, leaders from the video games industry, the UN and government representatives will meet in Nairobi for the inaugural Green Games...

Islamabad, Feb 19 : The closely-contested outcome of the February 8 general elections in Pakistan and the ensuing political ambiguity may pose challenges to the nation’s efforts to secure a...

London, Feb 19 : Israel’s output contracted sharply in the final three months of 2023, falling for the first time in nearly two years, as the war with Hamas takes...

London, Feb 19 : The European Commission on Monday opened formal proceedings to assess whether TikTok may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) for protection of minors, advertising transparency,...

Colombo, Feb 19 : India has launched the construction of houses for the Indian origin plantation workers across six different provinces in Sri Lanka. The construction will be carried out...

Islamabad, Feb 19 : Services of social media platform X, formerly Twitter, remained disrupted for the third consecutive day in Pakistan on Monday. As per Downdetector, which tracks outages by...

Tel Aviv, Feb 19 : The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is closing in on Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, widely believed to be the mastermind behind October 7 massacre in southern...

Seoul, Feb 19 : With less than 50 days remaining until South Korea’s parliamentary elections in April, concerns over the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated deepfake videos and images are...

Tehran, Feb 19 : Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has denounced the US Senate for approving a $14-billion aid package for Israel, which he said would enable more Israeli...

Tehran, Feb 19 : Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has called for a high turnout in the elections for parliament and a clerical body scheduled on March 1. Khamenei made...

Ramallah, Feb 19 : The Palestinian presidency has said that a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital was essential for resolving the conflict and ensuring stability in the...

Colombo, Feb 19 : Sri Lanka’s state-owned electricity producer and distributor, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), has urged people to use electricity sparingly as demand for power has grown due...

Gaza, Feb 19 : The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 28,985, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said. In a press statement sent to Xinhua news agency,...

New Delhi, Feb 18 : PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Sunday said that his party has decided that Asif Ali Zardari will be their candidate for the presidential election. “To...

New Delhi, Feb 18 : Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s (PTI) Prime Ministerial candidate Omar Ayub Khan on Sunday said that his party will form the government in the Centre and provinces, media reports...

Kabul, Feb 18 : An earthquake struck Mazar-i-Sharif city, the provincial capital of north Afghanistan’s Balkh province, and adjoining areas on Sunday, with no report about casualties, locals said. As...

New Delhi, Feb 18 : Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s (PTI) Prime Ministerial candidate Omar Ayub Khan on Sunday said that his party will form the government in the Centre and provinces, media reports...

Kabul, Feb 18 : An earthquake struck Mazar-i-Sharif city, the provincial capital of north Afghanistan’s Balkh province, and adjoining areas on Sunday, with no report about casualties, locals said. As...

Tehran, Feb 18 : The 24th Iran Media Expo opened in the Iranian capital Tehran on Sunday following a six-year hiatus. The opening ceremony was held at Imam Khomeini’s Mosalla,...

New Delhi, Feb 18 : Gaza Health Ministry on Sunday said that at least 28,985 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory during Israeli bombardment in Gaza, media reports...

Mogadishu, Feb 18 : Somalia said a cholera outbreak is rapidly spreading across the country following intense flooding caused by El Nino rains in late 2023. The Ministry of Health...

New Delhi, Feb 18 : The quantum of debt Pakistan requires is growing faster than the net output of the economy (GDP).This means that the economy’s ability to grow or...

Washington, Feb 18 : Former US President Donald Trump has launched a sneaker line, a day after a New York judge fined him and his companies nearly $355 million in...

Moscow, Feb 18 : Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has said Moscow has taken full control of Ukarine’s Avdiivka town. The troops of the Center group, led by Lieutenant General...

Tel Aviv, Feb 18 : Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has said that his country wont capitulate to any pressure against the army entering Rafah area in Gaza to...

New Delhi, Feb 18 : External Affairs Minister Dr S.Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi had a brief conversation on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. The interaction...

Tripoli, Feb 18 : Abdoulaye Bathily, special representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), has called on Libyan leaders to...

Gaza, Feb 18 : At least 40 Palestinians were killed and many others injured in Israeli airstrikes that targetted residential homes in the central Gaza Strip, the media reported. Palestinian...

Sanaa, Feb 18 : The US-British military coalition has conducted multiple strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, the media reported. The strikes hit in...

Damascus, Feb 18 : Syria’s Culture Ministry has announced the reopening of the historic citadel of Aleppo to visitors following the completion of initial restoration work on damage sustained during...

Tehran, Feb 18 : Iran’s National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) has announced the nationwide natural gas transfer pipelines that were damaged in recent “terrorist blasts” have been repaired and become...

Colombo, Feb 18 : Sri Lanka has rolled out infrastructure development projects and innovative tourism promotion programmes in a bid to attract high-end tourists, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said....

Khartoum, Feb 18 : The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has announced that it has broken the siege imposed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the Engineers Corps in...

Manila, Feb 18 : The death toll from a landslide in a mining town in Davao de Oro province in southern Philippines has climbed to 98, a regional disaster prevention...

Gaza, Feb 18 : Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has accused Israel of impeding efforts to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. In a press statement sent to Xinhua news...

New Delhi, Feb 17 : India has an extremely strong relationship with Western countries which is getting better by the day, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said at the ongoing...

Washington, Feb 17 : Labour protests in China have increased rapidly since August of last year, according to rights groups, especially in the lead-up to the Lunar New Year, which...

Kiev, Feb 17 : Ukrainian Armed Forces commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky on Saturday said that the country has ordered withdrawal of troops from Avdiivka town. In a post on social media,...

Bangkok, Feb 17 : Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin on Saturday said that former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is set to be released on February 18. Thaksin, 74, is among...