Tuesday, November 26, 2024
LONDON — London has been crowned the world’s best city for the 10th consecutive year in the annual World’s Best Cities rankings. The British capital retained its top spot, ahead of New York, Paris, and Tokyo. The rankings, compiled by R...
21 Nov 2024
ISLAMABAD — At least 38 people were killed and 11 others injured in firing on three passenger coaches in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday. The incident happened in the tribal district of Kurram where the vehicles carrying Sh...
21 Nov 2024
GAZA — Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said that Gaza has become a ‘graveyard’ for children. “They are being killed, injured, ...
21 Nov 2024
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has moved to forgive about $4.7 billion in US loans to Ukraine, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said. According to the statement made on Wednesday, outgoing officials seek to do what they can befor...
21 Nov 2024
ANKARA — US decision to allow Kyiv to deploy its long-range missiles for strikes inside Russia is “a move aimed at fueling the war,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. “It appears to be a move aimed at fueling ...
20 Nov 2024
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz toured the Gaza coastline, vowing that Hamas would no longer govern the Palestinian enclave after the war. Accompanied by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chie...
20 Nov 2024
SEOUL — North Korea has held the 11th meeting of the intergovernmental committee on economic cooperation with Russia and discussed a range of issues on mutual cooperation, the North’s state media reported on Wednesday. Yun Jong-ho, the Extern...
20 Nov 2024
KYIV — The Ukrainian Parliament approved the government’s 2025 budget, which prioritises military expenditures, social support and economic recovery, the Finance Ministry said. The budget allocates 2.23 trillion Ukrainian hryvnias (about $54 ...
20 Nov 2024
BELGRADE — Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held talks in Belgrade, strengthening cooperation in trade, defence, education, and technology through ten newly signed agreements. At a joint press conference...
20 Nov 2024
RIO DE JANEIRO — Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Qu Dongyu, has urged all FAO members and partners to join the new Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty, which was officially launched at t...
19 Nov 2024
BAKU — Seventy-eight NGOs, including Save Soil, 4per1000, and SEKEM, on Tuesday endorsed a policy recommendation document, to be presented to the UNFCCC at the ongoing UN climate conference (COP29), which is focussed heavily on securing a new clima...
19 Nov 2024
HONG KONG — Forty-five people convicted of “conspiracy to subvert the state power” were sentenced to imprisonment ranging from 50 months to 10 years in Hong Kong on Tuesday. The High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ...
19 Nov 2024
QUTIO — Ecuador has declared a 60-day national emergency to tackle wildfires, water shortages and drought afflicting the South American country, said Energy Minister Ines Manzano. Seventeen active fires and five controlled ones were reported in dif...
19 Nov 2024
SYDNEY — Authorities warned on Monday that a bushfire in Australia that has destroyed at least one home could continue burning for several weeks. The bushfire near the town of Kadnook, over 300 km west of Melbourne, was one of several that ignited ...
18 Nov 2024
Phnom Penh — Cambodia on Monday hosted the first-ever Southeast Asian school meals coalition summit in Siem Reap province, aiming at driving human capital development and food systems transformation, said a joint press release. The three-day summit...
18 Nov 2024
ISLAMABAD — Several prominent Pakistani think tanks, policymakers and top government officials have been forced to re-strategise their position and reassess the terms of their relationship with the United States under the incoming Trump administrat...
18 Nov 2024
WASHINGTON — In a major shift of his administration’s policy on the Ukraine crisis, US President Joe Biden has authorised Kyiv to use US-supplied long-range missiles to strike targets inside Russia, American media reported. The greenlight wou...
18 Nov 2024
BEIRUT — Israeli warplanes launched five fresh raids on Beirut’s southern suburbs Sunday morning shortly after the Israeli army issued an evacuation warning, Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) reported. Among the raids, two t...
17 Nov 2024
PHNOM PENH — Cambodia’s three-day traditional Water Festival attracted more than 6.2 million spectators, the Ministry of Tourism said on Sunday. Celebrated from Thursday to Saturday, the festival was one of the most joyful festivals in the So...
17 Nov 2024
DHAKA — The Bangladeshi interim government has extended the magistracy power given to commissioned army officers for another two months. An official notification published by the Ministry of Public Administration on Saturday said their jurisdiction...
17 Nov 2024
Darwin (Australia) — Australia, Japan, and the United States on Sunday reaffirmed their commitment to support India’s maritime surveillance efforts in the Indo-Pacific region while recognising the importance of closer collaboration in the field. ...
17 Nov 2024
LIMA — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and US President Joe Biden held a farewell summit in Peru as they looked back on their partnership and reaffirmed efforts for enhancing the bilateral alliance, Yoon’s office said. The meeting on Fri...
16 Nov 2024
NEW YORK — In apparent attempts by Iran to prepare for the return of Donald Trump as US President, a senior diplomat had a secret meeting with Elon Musk, a top adviser to the President-elect, and separately Teheran assured the US government that it...
16 Nov 2024
SYDNEY — Scientists have discovered the world’s largest known coral in the Pacific Ocean. The coral, which measures 34 metres wide, 32 metres long at 5.5 metres high, was found in the Solomon Islands’ Three Sisters island group by marin...
15 Nov 2024
TOKYO — The oldest member of the Japanese imperial family and great-aunt of Emperor Naruhito, Princess Yuriko passed away at the age of 101 in a Tokyo hospital on Friday, the Imperial Household Agency said. After Princess Yuriko’s death, ther...
15 Nov 2024
