WASHINGTON (APP): The former United States envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, does not represent U.S. policy, a State Department spokesperson has said, asserting that the Afghan-born diplomat speaks in his…

Accra (AFP/APP): US Vice President Kamala Harris met with Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday, bringing an aid package to shore up security, economic and development cooperation as part of…

Ciudad Juárez, Mexico (AFP/APP): Several people at an immigration detention centre in a Mexican city on the US border died in a fire that broke out at the facility overnight,…

Alausi , Ecuador (AFP/APP): Rescuers searched on Monday for more than 60 people reported missing after a landslide triggered by months of heavy rain killed at least seven people in…

Nashville (AFP/APP): A heavily armed former student killed three young children and three staff in what appeared to be a carefully planned attack at a private elementary school in Nashville…

NEW DELHI (News Agencies): India is close to approving the purchase of Dassault Aviation’s Rafale-M (Marine) fighter jets that will operate from the flight deck of India’s newest aircraft carrier,…

Singapore (News Agencies): Zijiao Chen can read your mind, with a little help from powerful artificial intelligence and an fMRI machine. Chen, a doctoral student at the National University of…

BEIRUT (News Agencies): The Lebanese government’s last-minute decision to delay the start of daylight savings time by a month until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan resulted…

Tegucigalpa (News Agencies): The government of Honduras in Central America announced the breakdown of “diplomatic relations” with the Taiwan region on Saturday, saying it will have no more official relations…

Addis Ababa (News Agencies): Ethiopian Vice-Chair of the Renaissance Dam Coordinating Council Faqrati Tamru announced on Friday that 90 per cent of the construction of the Renaissance Dam had been…

BAGHDAD (News Agencies): Iraq halted crude exports from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region and northern Kirkuk fields on Saturday, an oil official told Reuters, after the country won a longstanding arbitration…

LONDON: The FSO Safer supertanker — moored off the Yemeni coast and containing over a million barrels of oil — will “sink or explode at any moment,” wreaking devastation, the…

TEL AVIV (News Agencies): Hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets across the country on Saturday to protest against the government’s controversial push to overhaul the judicial system.…

Waco, United States (AFP/APP): An anonymous emergency telephone call on Friday led authorities to halt a train that contained a group of “suffocating” migrants, two of whom were dead, police…

NEW YORK (Xinhua/APP): Oil prices decreased on Friday, but managed to notch a gain for the week.The West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for May delivery dropped 70 cents, or 1 percent,…

NEW DELHI (News Agencies): Despite several assurances provided by Russia over the months, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has now said in a statement that Moscow cannot fulfill its commitment…

TEL AVIV (News Agencies): Roughly 200 Israeli Air Force reserve pilots reportedly notified their units that they would not be reporting for their weekly flying session next week following the…

ISLAMABAD (News Agencies): Islamabad and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have been engaged in protracted talks for the release of a fresh tranche of $1.1 billion since February.Pakistan’s wait to…

WASHINGTON (News Agencies/Sputnik) – At least two people died and several others were injured as a result of an explosion and a subsequent fire at a chocolate factory in the…

CHICAGO (News Agencies): The US’ United Airlines plans to launch the first electric air taxi service in 2025, from O’Hare International Airpot to Vertiport Chicago, the biggest vertical aircraft take-off…

Tripoli (News Agencies): The General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) has announced the arrival of operational materials supplied by the German company Siemens, completing major overhaul works for North Benghazi…

LONDON (News Agencies): King Charles’s state visit to France has been postponed amid planned protests over the French government’s controversial pension reforms. Both France’s Élysée Palace and Buckingham Palace confirmed…

Tallahassee (News Agencies/CNN): “The eye is the window into the brain,” said ophthalmologist Dr. Christine Greer, director of medical education at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Boca Raton, Florida.…

Honolulu (News Agencies): Mr Moore started working on semiconductors in the 1950s and co-founded the Intel Corporation. He famously predicted that computer processing powers would double every year – later…

DUBAI (News Agencies): Argentine model Georgina Rodriguez on Thursday was announced as the ambassador for Arab brand Amara Lenses, available in the Gulf region.“I’m so happy to be the face…

Ottawa (News Agencies): The US and Canada have announced an immigration plan that will change the way they take in asylum seekers. While Ottawa vowed to accept 15,000 additional migrants,…

Kyiv (News Agencies): Operating behind enemy lines, one soldier fighting for Ukraine knows the Russians will hunt for him the second he sets up his portable Starlink internet dish. He…

Brussels (News Agencies/Janes): The Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden have agreed on “seamless cooperation” between their respective air forces, with a letter of intent (LOI) announced on…

SEOUL (News Agencies): North Korea claimed Friday to have tested a nuclear-capable underwater drone designed to generate a gigantic “radioactive tsunami” that would destroy naval strike groups and ports. Analysts…

BEIJING (News Agencies): As yellow sand fills the sky with an earthy smell, Beijing reported heavily reduced air quality on Wednesday amid the arrival of the largest sandstorms of 2023…

NEW YORK (News Agencies): A federal judge in New York has ordered Iran’s Central Bank and a European intermediary to pay $1.68 billion in compensation to the family members of…

N’Djamena (News Agencies): Chad has nationalised all the assets and rights, including hydrocarbon permits and exploration and production authorisations, that belonged to a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil, the West African…

NEW DELHI (News Agencies): India’s main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has been disqualified as a member of parliament, a day after being convicted in a defamation case and sentenced to…

ROME (News Agencies): Twenty-nine imams from Algeria will be sent by their government to Italy to help local imams perform Taraweeh prayers during the holy month of Ramadan. The imams…

BEIRUT (News Agencies): “Lebanon is in a very dangerous situation,” the International Monetary Fund warned on Thursday, a year after authorities in the country committed to a program of reforms…

RIYADH (News Agencies): Saudi Arabia and Syria are in talks to resume consular services between the two countries, Al-Ekhbariya TV said on Thursday. “Within the framework of the Kingdom’s keenness…

MOSCOW: Russia and China are deepening their partnership in nuclear energy and will draw up a road map for cooperation in developing so-called fast-neutron reactors for decades to come, Russia’s…

A powerful earthquake has been felt in parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, according to witnesses. There were no immediate reports of casualties from Tuesday’s quake. Initial reports said the…

KYIV (News Agencies): Ukraine has reported the destruction of “multiple” Russian cruise missiles as they were being transported by rail to Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Crimea.Ukraine’s military agency said…

Washington (News Agencies): Washington is firmly opposed to a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has said, branding any peace initiatives “unacceptable” in the…

ISLAMABAD (APP): Islamabad Police on Sunday have registered an FIR – including terrorism charges – against Imran Khan and more than a dozen other PTI leaders for attacking police officers…

WASHINGTON *News Agencies*: NASA and Texas-based company Axiom Space have unveiled the prototype for a new spacesuit design that could be the very first suit worn by the first woman…

TRIPOLI *News Agencies*: The Technical Committee of Libya’s Tripoli Ministry of Interior confirmed Wednesday the readiness of the components operating at the Ghadames-Debdeb / Libyan-Algerian border crossing to open the…

LONDON *News Agencies*: Police use of rubber bullets and other projectiles against peaceful protesters has become increasingly routine worldwide, leading to eye injuries and even deaths, Amnesty International has warned.…

New York *News Agencies*: French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi announced on Thursday it would cut the US price of its most prescribed insulin by 78 percent, falling in line with two…

Beijing *News Agencies*: Chinese technology giant Huawei has replaced thousands of product components banned by the United States with homegrown versions, its founder has said, according to a transcript of…

MOSCOW *News Agencies*: Russia has conferred state awards on the two fighter pilots involved in the downing of a US surveillance drone that crashed into the Black Sea, the Russian…

ANKARA: The helmet-topped engineer drove his pointy instrument into the concrete to test whether Durmus Uygun’s building will crumble when the feared big quake finally strikes Istanbul.“I’m pretty confident but…

BEIRUT *News Agencies*: The US has launched a $20 million fund to help Lebanese businesses install solar energy systems as owners struggle to stay afloat amid the collapse of the…

Los Angeles *News Agencies*: Character actor Lance Reddick, best known for his role as Lt. Cedric Daniels on ‘The Wire’, died “suddenly…from natural causes” on Friday, his publicist, Mia Hansen,…

Washington *News Agencies*: Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies are reportedly discussing security preparations in the event former President Donald Trump is indicted on felony falsification charges sometime in…

Baghdad *News Agencies*: The transportation authorities in Iran announced they reached an understanding with Iraq regarding the relaunch of the train trips between Tehran and Karbala. The head of the…

Sydney *News Agencies*: Blake Johnston on Friday shredded the world record for the longest surfing session, dodging swarms of jellyfish to ride hundreds of waves across 40 punishing hours. The…

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region *News Agencies* – Iraq collected over seven billion dollars from oil sales during the first month of 2023, reported the country’s oil ministry on Wednesday. The country…

LONDON *News Agencies*: Scientists and engineers at the British company are working on the micro-reactor programme to develop technology that will provide the power needed for humans to live and…

Taipei *News Agencies*: Taiwan is buying more LNG for delivery over the next year as it closed a nuclear reactor and is set to phase out nuclear power generation by…

Ankara (AFP/APP): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ended months of diplomatically charged delays on Friday and asked parliament to quickly back Finland’s bid to join NATO.A simultaneous decision by fellow…

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on Friday against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegal deportation of at…

Ottawa (AFP/APP): Two police officers were shot dead while responding to a domestic call early Thursday in Edmonton in Canada’s western Alberta province, officials said.The two constables showed up at…

BANGKOK: Authorities in Thailand are scrambling to locate a metal cylinder with dangerous radioactive contents that went missing from a power plant this week, warning the public of serious health…

BEIJING (Xinhua/APP): A 7.0-magnitude earthquake jolted the Kermadec Islands of New Zealand at 8:56 a.m. Thursday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).The epicenter, with a depth…

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad is discussing an option to send 44 T-80UD tanks to Ukraine. However, there are conditions, according to sources. Someone will have to pay for these tanks, or as…

Paris (AFP/APP): A Russian fighter jet on Tuesday dumped fuel on an American drone over the Black Sea and then collided with it, causing the drone to crash, the US…

Blantyre, Malawi: (AFP/APP): Malawi’s president on Monday declared a state-of-disaster in several southern districts including the commercial hub Blantyre after the powerful cyclone Freddy made a comeback killing dozens, the…

WASHINGTON: More than 250 US business leaders and politicians warned in an open letter on Sunday evening that Israel’s judicial reforms will make it “increasingly difficult” to defend the country…

Basra – Iraq’s prime minister on Sunday announced a campaign to combat the severe impacts of climate change on the water-scarce country, including by planting five million palms and trees.…

NEW YORK: Entities connected to Elon Musk and his companies have reportedly been acquiring thousands of acres of land in Texas with the hope of starting a town where his…

TEL AVIV: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the changes – which would curb the power of courts – will restore the balance between the branches of government. Opponents say they…

BEIJING: Audi AG CEO Markus Duesmann, one of the first CEOs of a large global firm to have visited China since the optimization of epidemic control measures, said he was…

AURORA: Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown said Tuesday the Air Force would likely retire all its A-10 Warthogs over the next five or six years. Until recently,…

TEHRAN: Iran and the United States have reached an agreement to exchange prisoners, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told state TV on Sunday, adding that he hoped the exchange would…

TEL AVIV: Israeli emergency authorities on Sunday began a major four-day exercise simulating the receipt of tons of aid from allied nations amid a devastating earthquake, the Defense Ministry said.…

RIYADH: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Sunday announced the creation of a new national airline “Riyadh Air,” wholly owned by the Public Investment Fund, the Saudi Press Agency…

NEW YORK: Silicon Valley Bank, one of the tech sector’s favorite lenders, is shutting down. The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation said Friday that it was taking over…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s most famous air squadron – 16 Squadron PAF received new fighter jets. Nicknamed the Black Panthers, Airmen from the 16th Squadron will now fly the JF-17 Thunder Block…

TEHRAN (Agencies): Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to re-establish ties and reopen embassies within two months, according to Iranian and Saudi state media. The agreement came after talks held…

Prague (AFP/APP): Former NATO general Petr Pavel was on Thursday sworn in as president of the Czech Republic and stressed the importance of unity in supporting war-torn Ukraine.“Central Europe’s single…

Washington (AFP/APP): Donald Trump is releasing more than 150 letters from giants of world history such as Richard Nixon, Kim Jong Un, and Oprah Winfrey, the former US president and…

California (Agencies): California is battening down the hatches with another fierce winter storm poised to bring heavy rainfall and strong winds to the western US state, the latest in a…

UNITED NATIONS (APP): Afghanistan under the Taliban remains the “most repressive country in the world [for] women’s rights”, the senior UN official in Kabul has told the Security Council, while…

NEW YORK (APP): Pakistan’s climate defender Ayisha Siddiqa is among US Time magazine’s twelve 2023 Women of the Year, calling them “extraordinary leaders who are working toward a more equal…

UNITED NATIONS (APP): Cindy McCain, wife of the late U.S. Republican Senator John McCain, will head the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP), a Rome-based United Nations agency, according to a…

Jakarta (AFP/APP): At least 16 people were killed and dozens injured in Indonesia’s capital Friday, after a massive blaze broke out at a state-run fuel storage depot before firefighters brought…

Washington: FBI Director Christopher Wray has said that the bureau believes Covid-19 “most likely” originated in a “Chinese government-controlled lab”. “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that…

MOSCOW: Indian company Allied Blenders & Distillers (ABD), which produces the world’s third-most-popular whisky, Officer’s Choice, is planning to enter the Russian market, according to business daily Kommersant. Russian vodka…

California : Father Hilarion Heagy, a prominent US-based Eastern Catholic priest has converted to Islam, describing his decision as a “reversion to Islam” and that it was “like coming home.”…

ATHENS: Two trains collided head-on in Greece killing at least 32 people and injuring 85 late on Tuesday night, the fire brigade said, but the cause of the deadliest rail…

LONDON (AA/APP): Government also announces nearly $12M to ‘help ensure event truly showcases Ukrainian culture’ The UK government on Saturday announced it will allocate thousands of tickets for the Eurovision…

UNITED NATIONS (APP): A global surge of cholera cases has put one billion people in 43 countries, including Pakistan, at risk, the World Health Organization (WHO), a Geneva-based UN agency,…

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and Ukraine have signed an agreement and a memorandum of understanding worth $400 million of aid to the European country. It is an implementation of the pledge…

UNITED NATIONS (APP): The UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, has said that genocide denial and the glorification of war criminals continue to present a…

UNITED NATIONS (APP): The head of the World Food Programme (WFP), a Rome-based UN agency, concluded a visit on Saturday to earthquake-devastated Syrian and Turkish communities and aid supply routes,…

ISLAMABAD (APP): Saudi Arabia has unveiled new-look bottles of Zamzam water, less than a month before the start of Ramazan. Chief of the General Presidency for Affairs of the Two…

TOKYO: Universities have become more vulnerable as they are expected to allow the public onto their campuses, so attention is now being paid to see how effective the latest technology…

WARSAW: Poland delivered four Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine on Friday, exactly one year after the start of Russia’s invasion of its neighbor.Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki made the announcement…

TORONTO: Air Canada has launched a pilot project that enables travelers to use facial recognition technology to confirm their identification. The system is designed to make the overall travel and…

BERLIN: Police said about 10,000 people braved the falling snow in central Berlin to call for negotiations with Moscow rather than weapons deliveries to Ukraine. Under the slogan “Rise up…

CNN: The US Navy reconnaissance jet flies at 21,500 feet over the South China Sea, 30 miles from the contested Paracel Islands, a group of about 130 small atolls, the…

SYDNEY: Huge crowds packed the city’s Oxford Street as more than 12,000 participants and 200 floats passed by. It is the first time the parade has been held in its…

BEIJING: Three weeks after the “toxic train” incident in Ohio, US, the local department of natural resources has increased its estimate of the number of animals killed by the hazardous…

LONDON: Car production in Britain fell slightly in January as thousands continued the shift towards electric vehicles which experienced a nearly 50 percent increase.Despite global economic instability, car production fell…

WASHINGTON: Pratt & Whitney has been cleared to restart deliveries of F135 jet engines—two months after the Pentagon ordered a hold on deliveries following the crash of an F-35B in…

Arlington: The Coast Guard, like its sister military services, is expanding its reach in the Indo-Pacific region. But it’s also working to make data more accessible across the service and…

ABU DHABI: The CEO of Taiwan-based company Tron Future, whose counter-drone radars are already used by the Taiwanese Army, says the systems are ready for mass deployment, eying a production…

MELBOURNE: Korea Aerospace Industries has won a competition to supply light attack aircraft to Malaysia, the company announced, marking its latest export for the line of trainer/light attack jets.The South…

ISLAMABAD: Two Pakistani brothers held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay military prison for two decades have been freed by US officials and have returned home, officials said. Abdul,…

ISTANBUL: A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has shaken the central Anatolian Turkish province of Nigde, the Kandilli earthquake monitoring centre said, just over two weeks after two devastating earthquakes that killed…

TEHRAN: An Iranian general warned his country is still seeking to kill former US president Donald Trump and his secretary of state Mike Pompeo in revenge for assassinating top commander…

TEL AVIV: The political conflict and social rift due to the government’s plan to weaken the judiciary and start passing legislation in the Knesset have reached the ranks of the…

ANKARA (AA/APP): Japan has decided to provide $16 million in emergency assistance to earthquake-ravaged Türkiye and Syria.With the additional aid, Japan’s total emergency humanitarian assistance will now be around $27…

NEW DELHI (AA/APP): At least 14 people were killed and over 50 others were injured in a road accident in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, officials said on…

Afghanistan (Xinhua/APP): Four people have been killed as an avalanche hit a village in Arghanjkhwa district of Afghanistan’s northern Badakhshan province, said Qari Maazudin Ahmadi, head of information and culture…

BEIJING (Xinhua/APP): All four prototypes of China’s AG600M aircraft, a full-configuration firefighting model belonging to the AG600 large amphibious aircraft family, have kicked off the flight test mission, the aircraft…

LOS ANGELES (Xinhua/APP): More than 100,000 homes and businesses across California were left in the dark early Friday as a heavy winter storm continued lashing the most populous state in…

Istanbul (AFP/APP): Fears of another major earthquake have been rekindled in Istanbul since the February 6 disaster that hit Turkey and Syria, but a prominent Turkish seismologist has reassured the…

Beijing (AFP/APP): Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko will visit China on February 28 for a state visit, the Chinese foreign ministry said Saturday.“At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, President…

ATLANTA: Lockheed Martin has handed over the first of five C-130J-30 Super Hercules transport aircraft to the Indonesian Air Force (TNI-AU). In a press statement, the company said that the…

TEL AVIV: A Foreign Ministry statement said the move came after months of talks with Oman, as flying through the Omani airspace will shorten the duration of Israeli flights to…

LONDON: A British couple has been found guilty of attempting to smuggle Iraqi immigrants into the country by hiding them in sofas. On Monday, Pamela and Nicholas Fullwood appeared at…

ANKARA: Authorities have completed 80 percent of the damage assessment in the earthquake zone in southern Turkiye after the powerful 6 February tremors, the country’s Environment Minister said on Thursday,…

RABAT: The Commander of Israel’s Air Force, Gen. Tomer Bar, is visiting Morocco for talks on enhancing bilateral military cooperation, according to the military, Anadolu News Agency reports. Tomer held…

BEIRUT: Longtime central bank governor Riad Salameh, his brother Raja and one of his assistants have been charged with money laundering, embezzlement, and illicit enrichment, a senior judicial source said…

DUBAI: Iran on Thursday directly acknowledged an accusation attributed to international inspectors that it enriched uranium to 84 percent purity for the first time, which would put the Islamic Republic…

Orlando: TV reporter Dylan Lyons, 24, and a nine-year-old girl have been fatally shot near Orlando, Florida, close to the scene of a murder that took place hours earlier. A…

LONDON: The BBC will not be put off from reporting without fear or favor, its Director-General Tim Davie has said in an email to staff in India. It follows searches…

New Delhi: India will manufacture an Israeli strategic missile system domestically. Indian state-run Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) signed a memorandum of understanding on the sidelines…

NEW YORK: A US federal agency has concluded that artwork made using artificial intelligence does not qualify for copyright protections, saying such images were not created by a human being…

TEHRAN: A helicopter carrying Iranian Sports Minister Hamid Sajjadi crashed while landing in the southern part of the country on Thursday. According to local authorities, the minister’s adviser was killed…

SaintJeandeLuz (AFP/APP): A teenage pupil stabbed a teacher to death in the middle of a lesson at a school in southwest France on Wednesday, the regional prosecutor said.The victim, Agnes…

ORLANDO — The U.S. Space Force is developing a plan for a satellite refueling and servicing capability that takes advantage of technology being developed by commercial space companies, according to…

KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban-led administration has set up a consortium of companies, including some in Russia, Iran, and Pakistan, to create an investment plan focusing on power, mining, and infrastructure, the…

TEL AVIV: Israel and Saudi Arabia normalising relations with each other would end the conflict with Palestinians and the wider Arab world, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has claimed. Speaking…

Islamabad: A senior Pakistani delegation has visited Afghanistan’s capital for talks with Taliban officials, days after the closure of their busiest border crossing raised tensions between the two countries. Pakistani…

NEW YORK: A daughter of murdered black civil rights activist Malcolm X says she is suing New York City Police Department and other agencies for his 1965 murder. Ilyasah Shabazz…

DUBLIN: Flights at Dublin Airport (DUB) were temporarily suspended after “illegal drone activity” was detected in the area. Flights were suspended at 8.22 pm on February 21, 2023, and were…

BRUSSELS: Launched in 2016, the Alliance Future Surveillance and Control (AFSC) program aims to study and develop NATO surveillance capabilities, primarily to replace the aging fleet of AWACS (Airborne Warning…

TOKYO: Police in Tokyo have arrested an 82-year-old man on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman in her 30s after he put sleeping pills in the soup that he gave…

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia made a $1 billion deposit in Yemen’s central bank on Tuesday, Saudi Press Agency reported.The support comes as an extension of the Kingdom’s keenness to support development…

BEIJING: Chinese military engineers have developed a space-based method of overwhelming sophisticated missile-defense systems, according to a local media report. The tactic has yet to be tested in real life,…

BEIRUT: Lebanon could be headed to oblivion, the head of the country’s independent advisory body warned on Monday. Charles Arbid, president of the Economic and Social Council, told an emergency…

TOKYO: Postmortems of 11 patients who died in Japan after contracting COVID-19 in 2021 found that an infectious viral load remained in the nasopharynx and lungs of over half, with…

A video showing the aftermath of Russian missile strikes that left the Ukrainian military air base in ruins and damaged several Ukrainian military aircraft is going viral on the internet.…

London (AFP/APP): Two UK tea manufacturers on Monday faced accusations of sexual abuse on tea plantations in Kenya, according to an undercover investigation by the BBC.“More than 70 women on…

Santiago (AFP/APP): Chilean Barbara Hernandez, who became the first person recorded to have swum 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) in the near-freezing Antarctic Ocean, says fear — not other people —…

Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has informed the United Nations Security Council of its decision to no longer call for a vote today on a draft resolution against…

ANKARA: An earthquake, with a magnitude 6.4 at a depth of two km (1.2 miles), struck the Turkey-Syria border region on Monday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. Two…

ROME: The Italian government is confidentially examining options for sending military jets to Kiev, La Repubblica newspaper reported on Sunday. According to the paper, a deal involving up to five…

Kyiv, Ukraine: (AFP/APP): US President Joe Biden on Monday made a surprise trip to Kyiv, promising increased arms deliveries for Ukraine and unflagging support ahead of the first anniversary of…

Dubai — Dubai could become a new center for sustainability and wellness if developer URB gets its way. The Dubai-based firm has proposed a series of ambitious, environmentally focused designs…

Mr Blinken told CBS News that Chinese companies were already providing “non-lethal support” to Russia – and new information suggested Beijing could provide “lethal support”. This escalation would mean “serious…

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin will deliver hypersonic missiles to the Navy and Army that can be integrated with the Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyers under a $1.2 billion deal awarded Friday. Lockheed…

DAMASCUS: An Israeli air strike killed early Sunday 15 people including two Syrian civilians and badly damaged a building in a Damascus district housing state security agencies, a war monitor…

WASHINGTON: The first group of Ukrainian soldiers has completed their “battalion combined-arms training” at the US Army Grafenwoehr training area in Germany, the Pentagon told reporters on Friday. The training…

KABUL: Afghanistan’s interim government has decided to take control of the bases of the US-led foreign forces across the country “with an intention” to convert them into special economic zones,…

Moscow (AFP/APP): Russia’s space agency said Saturday it was planning to send a rescue ship on February 24 to bring home three astronauts whose return vehicle was damaged by a…

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 18 (APP): Some 1.8 billion people on the planet are threatened by flood risks, the United Nations General Assembly President, Csaba Korosi, warned on Saturday, at a…

MUNICH, Feb 19 (APP): Minister for Foreign Affairs Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday held meetings with foreign ministers and leaders of different countries at the Munich Security Council in Germany…

Seoul (AFP/APP): North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile Saturday which landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone, Seoul and Tokyo said, after Pyongyang warned of a strong response to upcoming…

Hatay, Turkey (AFP/APP): Former Ghana international Christian Atsu was found dead on Saturday under the rubble of his home, almost two weeks after a devastating earthquake in Turkey.Atsu, 31, was…

Gqeberha, South Africa (AFP/APP): Tahlia McGrath and Ashleigh Gardner took Australia into the semi-finals of the Women’s T20 World Cup on Saturday with aggressive batting to defeat South Africa by…

The Hague (AFP/APP): The Dutch foreign ministry on Saturday announced the expulsion of several Russian diplomats and the closure of Russia’s trade mission in Amsterdam, accusing Moscow of using it…

Tunis (AFP/APP): Tunisian President Kais Saied ordered the expulsion Saturday of Europe’s top trade union official over a speech his office called “blatant interference” in the country’s internal affairs.“On the…

Paris (AFP/APP): French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview released Saturday that he wanted Russia to be defeated in its war with Ukraine, but not “crushed”.He was speaking after…

Beirut (AFP/APP): At least 53 people were killed Friday in an ambush in central Syria blamed on the Islamic State group, state media reported, the deadliest attack in more than…

Ouagadougou (AFP/APP): Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced Friday it was suspending most of its work in Burkina Faso after the killing last week of two of its employees by armed…

ISLAMABAD (APP): Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi concluded his visit to Pakistan after holding discussions focused on further enhancement of cooperation between Pakistan…

KARACHI: Terrorists on Friday stormed the Karachi Police Office (KPO), located on Karachi’s main artery, Shahrae Faisal. After three and a half-hour ordeal, a joint operation by police and paramilitary…

UPDATE – 4: UPDATE – 3: UPDATE- 2: ISLAMABAD APP: Heavy firing and explosion on Friday were reported near Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) office on Karachi’s Shahrah-e-Faisal. According to…

STUTTGART: More than half of NATO’s member states, along with its two current invitees, have pledged to take part in a novel initiative that would streamline the alliance’s process to…

NEW DELHI: India’s state-run Munitions India Limited (MIL) will start the mass production and supply of 1,000 lb thermobaric bombs from 2023, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said…

TEL AVIV: Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth’s military expert Ron Ben-Yishai said that a “major battle” against the Gaza Strip is being prepared with the aim of restoring deterrence, as the…

MANAMA: Israel has reportedly “bought an island” from Bahrain, prompting criticism from activists opposed to the on-going normalisation between the two countries. News of the purchase was initially announced by…

WASHINGTON: The United States Air Force has grounded hundreds of its decades-old KC-135 tankers, over concerns that a critical flaw could lead to their tails becoming separated from the fuselage…

Istanbul: Istanbul should prepare itself for a powerful quake, scientists and public figures have warned. This month’s disaster in southern Turkey, which claimed tens of thousands of lives, is a…

DUBAI: Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company AstraZeneca has announced plans to build sustainable offices at Dubai Science Park, the Emirates News Agency reported on Thursday. It said the design and construction…

ADIYAMAN (Turkey), Feb 17 (APP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday said Pakistan would continue to provide maximum assistance to the Turkiye in its post-earthquake rehabilitation and reconstruction phases. The…

NANJING, Feb 17 (Xinhua/APP): A prototype of an innovative folding hydrogen-powered bicycle has officially rolled off the production line in the city of Changzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province, according to…

ISLAMABAD, Feb 17 (APP): Counselor of U.S. Department of State Derek Chollet discussed a wide range of issues with Pakistan including strengthening economic ties, cooperating to address the impacts of…

ISLAMABD: Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry has denied claims that Islamabad has been supplying Kiev with military items. Rumors of Pakistani involvement in the armed conflict have been swirling for several months.…

ISTANBUL, Feb 16 (AA/APP): US rock band Pearl Jam raffled off a signed poster of their 1996 Istanbul concert to raise money for the victims of last week’s two strong…

ADANA, Türkiye, Feb 16 (AA/APP): Hospital rooms in southern Türkiye are filled with toys for the children who survived the twin earthquakes last week.Volunteer physicians in the Adana province are…

TEL AVIV:: Israel passed a law on Wednesday that would allow authorities to strip people who have been jailed of citizenship or residency if they receive Palestinian funds for actions…

Scientists studying Antarctica’s vast Thwaites Glacier – nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier” – say warm water is seeping into its weak spots, threatening its demise and a massive sea rise. Thwaites,…

BEIRUT: A sudden fall in the value of the Lebanese pound has sparked confusion in the markets, widespread anger on the street, and warnings that people “can no longer afford…

MOSCOW: Viatris, the US pharmaceutical company that manufactures the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, has suspended deliveries of the pill to Russia, the Russian Trade Ministry said on Wednesday. Viagra’s brand…

Deir al-Zor: US forces occupying a natural gas field in northeast Syria have shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that the Pentagon claims was an Iranian-made drone conducting reconnaissance…

Alabama: A US military helicopter identified as a UH-60 Black Hawk crashed on Wednesday afternoon near Huntsville in northern Alabama, killing at least two people on board. The crash was…

Islamabad: Mr. Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will visit Pakistan from 15 – 16 February 2023. During his two-day visit, DG IAEA will hold high-level…

ISLAMABAD: Chinese embassy yesterday an­nounced a temporary closure of the Consular Section inIs­lamabad from February 13 un­til further notice. The Chinese Embassy issued a notice of tem­porary closure of the…

Washington (AFP/APP): Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday criticized Israel’s moves to advance settlements, warning that the US ally was aggravating tensions with the Palestinians following recent violence.“We are…

Michigan : At least three people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at Michigan State University, police in the US state say. Another five people were injured in…

TEL AVIV: Tens of thousands of Israelis — hoisting flags, blowing on horns, and chanting “democracy” and “no to dictatorship”— protested outside the parliament building on Monday as Prime Minister…

ANKARA: Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble on Sunday, nearly a week after one of the worst earthquakes to hit Turkiye and Syria, as Turkish authorities sought to maintain…

ASTANA: Kazakhstan energy company Kazmunaigaz (KMG) has pushed back the restart of crude oil exports from the giant Tengiz oilfield after BP declared force majeure on crude oil loadings from…

BERLIN: Germany is donating two Modular, Automatic and Network capable Targeting and Interception System (MANTIS) counter-rocket, artillery, and mortar defence (C-RAM) systems to Slovakia, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and General…

RIYADH: Saudi Arabian authorities have dismissed predictions about a potential quake in the Red Sea by a prominent Saudi geologist as “personal opinions.” The warning followed last week’s powerful earthquake…

Washington: President Joe Biden ordered it to be downed near Lake Huron, close to the Canadian border, on Sunday afternoon. The object could have interfered with commercial air traffic as…

LISBON:: The first batch of 18-set metro trains made by a Chinese enterprise was delivered to Portugal on Saturday, marking the first-ever delivery of made-in-China metro trains to an EU…

BEIJING: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is going to make an official visit to China next week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said. Raisi’s planned visit will take place between February…

TEHRAN: An Iranian official has revealed that China is one of the leading customers of Iranian-manufactured drones and that a large shipment is set to be sent to Beijing, amid…

Paris (AFP/APP): Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in France on Saturday in a fourth day of action against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform, with unions warning…

UNITED NATIONS (APP): Despite leadership losses and diminished cash reserves, the extremist group ISIL, or Da’esh, continues to pose a threat to international peace and security, the UN counter-terrorism chief…

London: (AFP/APP): UK police said Saturday they have arrested 15 people including one child after fireworks were thrown and a police car set on fire at an anti-immigration demonstration outside…

TOKYO: More than a century ago, Tsukiko Watari’s grandfather helped raise money for victims of a Turkish shipwreck off Japan. She is now following in his footsteps by putting on…

NEW DELHI: The Chinese spy balloon, recently shot down by the US military, has captured the headlines in recent weeks, with other countries like India, Japan, and Taiwan currently looking…

WASHINGTON: The U.S. military on Friday afternoon shot down a “high-altitude object” flying over Alaska airspace that the Department of Defense was tracking over the last 24 hours, National Security…

BEIJING (APP): Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has resumed direct regular passenger flights to Pakistan for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic started. China Southern Airlines resumed its…

TEL AVIV: Hundreds of serving soldiers and reservists have set off on a protest march in Israel in protest against the judicial reforms proposed by the far-right government of Prime…

London, Feb 8 (AFP/APP): President Volodymyr Zelensky used a visit to London on Wednesday to urge allies to send combat aircraft to his war-torn country as Britain promised to train…

ROME: An Italian bakery plans to sell loaves of bread made with powder from processed crickets. The news comes after the European Commission ruled last month that partially defatted and…

London, Feb 8 (AFP/APP): Microsoft’s planned $69-billion takeover of video game giant Activision Blizzard could significantly harm competition and consumer choice, UK regulators concluded in provisional findings Wednesday.Xbox-owner Microsoft launched…

Frankfurt, Germany, Feb 8 (AFP/APP): German chemical giant Bayer on Wednesday named Bill Anderson as its new CEO, following mounting pressure from activist investors urging the company to switch direction.Anderson,…

Algiers, Feb 8 (AFP/APP): Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Wednesday decided to recall his country’s envoy to France “for consultations” after Paris intervened to fly out French-Algerian activist Amira Bouraoui…

SOUL: South Korea has conveyed its preliminary proposal to Turkiye for constructing a major nuclear power plant in Turkiye, local Turkish media reports. According to the report, Korea Electric Power…

NEW YORK: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, has warned that Israel’s decision to expand the licensing of firearms for Israelis would lead to further violence…

A powerful earthquake has hit Gaziantep in south-eastern Turkey, near the border with Syria, killing at least 17 people. The US Geological Survey said the 7.8 magnitude tremor struck at…

NEW DELHI: Indian refiners are now using Emirati dirhams instead of US dollars to pay for most of the Russian oil they purchase via traders based in the United Arab…

NEW YORK: A large curvaceous, reflective sculpture by Anish Kapoor that was commissioned for a prominent street corner in Lower Manhattan back in 2008 has finally been completed. The yet-to-be-titled…

Vienna: Tourists from New Zealand, China, and Germany were among the dead at a number of different ski resorts. Austrian authorities put in place a level four avalanche alert –…

CARACAS: Venezuela’s Paraguana refinery complex is soon to begin a 100-day overhaul to reclaim its crude distillation capacity, anonymous Reuters sources suggested on Friday, with work set to be completed…

WASHINGTON: An undisclosed number of V-22 Ospreys across three services will halt operations until a component tied to the engine is replaced, a defense official said Saturday, as part of…

New Delhi: Indo-Russian Rifles Private Limited (IRRPL) – a joint venture between Russia and India to manufacture AK-203 assault rifles for the Indian Armed Forces – has completed the production…

COLUMBIA: The US has shot down what it termed a “Chinese surveillance balloon” off the coast of South Carolina. After the object traversed the country unimpeded for several days, President…

A Russian battalion offered a bounty on Friday for every operational Western-made tank seized by Moscow’s forces. The announcement was made by the Pavel Sudoplatov Battalion, an international volunteer unit…

ISLAMABAD: Former president retired General Pervez Musharraf passed away on Sunday after a prolonged battle with the rare disease amyloidosis. He was 79. In a statement issued immediately after his…

NORWAY, Feb 3 (AA/APP): Norway plans to purchase at least 54 next-generation Leopard 2 tanks from Germany, Oslo announced on Friday.The country “primarily wants to buy 54 tanks, but is…

Brussels, Feb 3 (AFP/APP): Belgium plans to prolong the life of three nuclear reactors that had been due to close in 2025 for at least one more winter, an official…

Paris, Feb 3 (AFP/APP): Experts have warned that the recent detection of bird flu in mammals including foxes, otters, minks, seals, and even grizzly bears is concerning but emphasised that…

SaintÉtienne, France, Feb 2 (AFP/APP): A convicted Italian killer, believed to belong to one of the country’s most powerful mafia organisations, was arrested on Thursday in France after 16 years…

NEW DELHI – India set aside 1.62 trillion rupees ($19.87 billion) for the procurement of new weapons and platforms to be sourced mainly through domestic defense contractors in fiscal year…

ANKARA: Norway canceled its permission to burn the Quran, Islam’s holy book after Ankara warned against it, Turkiye’s Foreign Minister said on Thursday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Speaking at an…

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched an electronic four-day transit visa on Monday for those arriving in the kingdom by air. The visa will be issued free of…

MANILA: The Philippines has granted the US expanded access to its military bases, their defense chiefs announced on Thursday, providing American forces with a strategic footing at a time of…

Brussels: Hollywood action movie star Steven Seagal should be sanctioned for allegedly supporting Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine, a group of politicians with the US-Europe Sanctions Coalition demanded on Thursday,…

ANKARA , Feb 2 (AA/APP): The Australian central bank on Thursday announced that the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II would be removed from the 5-dollar currency note after her death…

STOCKHOLM, Feb 2 (AA/APP): Members of religious groups in Sweden have spoken out in support of Muslims after Rasmus Paludan, leader of the Danish far-right Stram Kurs (Hard Line) burned…

PARIS: An Iranian court has handed jail sentences of over 10 years each to a young couple who danced in front of one of Tehran’s main landmarks in a video…

Washington, Feb 1 (AFP/APP): US law enforcement began a search Wednesday of President Joe Biden’s beach house in Delaware, his lawyer said, in the latest stage of an operation to…

London, Feb 1 (AFP/APP): Half a million people stopped work over pay in Britain on Wednesday leaving transport networks paralysed and thousands of classrooms empty in the largest walkout in…

Frankfurt, Germany, Feb 1 (AFP/APP): US chipmaker Wolfspeed said Wednesday it will open a plant in Germany to support the car industry’s shift to electric vehicles, as Europe seeks to…

BEIRUT: Lebanon will adopt a new official exchange rate of 15,000 pounds per US dollar on Feb. 1, Riad Salameh, the central bank governor, said. The new rate marks a…

MAKKAH: A group of 25 Pakistani bikers arrived on their motorcycles in Makkah, after riding for 22 days and 14,000 km from Pakistan, via Iran and the UAE. The group…

Washington:: President Joe Biden’s administration has reportedly decided to send longer-range rockets to Ukraine, giving Kiev’s forces the capability to hit targets farther behind the frontlines, just as a top…

US defence company Northrop Grumman will begin integrating Military Code (M-Code) global positioning system (GPS) capability into the company’s precision guidance systems for medium- and long-range artillery systems. CAES, a…

TEHRAN: Iran and Russia have connected their inter-bank communication and transfer systems to help boost trade and financial transactions, a senior Iranian official said on Monday, as both Tehran and…

Brussels: One person is in critical condition and two more were injured during a knife attack inside a metro station in Brussels, located right below the headquarters of the European…

MOSCOW: Russia’s Rostec defense consortium has finalized an upgrade of the Kalashnikov AK-12 assault rifle and will begin production of the latest model this year. It is the fifth generation…

PESHAWAR, Jan 30 (APP): An apparently powerful suicide blast here at the mosque of Malik Saad Shaheed Police Lines on Monday martyred at least 59 worshipers, mostly policemen, and injured…

KABUL: When Russia launched the invasion of Ukraine, it was planned to be a blitzkrieg-like operation that would sweep the capital Kyiv. However, the fierce resistance by the Armed Forces…

ROME: Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is expected to travel to Libya on Saturday to discuss more oil and natural gas supply from the North African country, Italian media report.…

NEW DELHI: Two Indian Air Force fighter jets crashed Saturday in an apparent mid-air collision while on exercises around 300 kilometers (185 miles) south of the capital New Delhi, police…

Jerusalem: Two people were severely wounded and hospitalized after a gunman opened fire in Jerusalem on Saturday, Israeli police said. They stated that the suspect, who is just 13 years…

A senior US Air Force commander warned his subordinates that they should brace for war with China over Taiwan in just two years, NBC reported on Saturday, citing internal documents.…

The Marine Corps has formally opened its first new base in 70 years: Guam’s Camp Blaz, which is to become a “strategic hub” as the U.S. military expands its Pacific…

KARACHI: The Pakistan Navy has received its second modernised Khalid (Agosta 90B)-class diesel-electric submarine (SSK) from Turkish company STM. The vessel, PNS Khalid, was handed over to the service with…

London/Coventry, Jan 26 (AFP/APP): At an east London church on a bitterly cold winter’s day, Beautine Wester-Okiya picks her way through boxes of donated baby clothes, toys, and other assorted…

Republicans in the House and Senate have introduced legislation seeking to ban TikTok on all devices in the United States and prohibit transactions with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance –…

Partially defatted and powdered house crickets will officially be able to find their way to EU citizens’ tables starting on January 24. This comes thanks to a European Commission ruling…

Bamako: The Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) formally inducted another consignment of Russian jets and helicopters in a ceremony on 19 January, including a Su-25 ground-attack aircraft to replace the one…

MOSCOW: A Russian warship armed with hypersonic cruise weapons will take part in exercises with the Chinese and South African navies in February, according to Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency.…

Los Angeles: US astronaut Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, who was part of the legendary Apollo 11 mission that landed on the Moon in 1969, walked down the aisle on his 93rd…

Ouagadougou, Jan 23 (AFP/APP): Burkina Faso has asked France to move its troops out of the country within a month, according to a letter from the authorities there to Paris…

Monterey Park, United States, Jan 23 (AFP/APP): The gunman believed to have killed 10 people during Lunar New Year celebrations in California shot himself dead as police moved in to…

Wuhan, China, Jan 23 (AFP/APP): Residents of China’s Wuhan said Monday they were hopeful for the future and no longer afraid of Covid-19, three years after the city was locked…

Paris, Jan 23 (AFP/APP): Women are increasingly making their mark in men’s fashion, breaking through the “fabric ceiling” that has seen the industry dominated by men, and attracted by a…

Dubai: The emirate of Dubai is planning to build the world’s first 3D-printed mosque which will be ready by early 2025. According to a report by The National last week,…

Alongside a match card filled with enticing encounters, the icons of WWE will be out in force with WWE Legends including The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair, Kurt Angle, and…

LONDON: Britain’s Afghan relocation scheme has a backlog of 71,149 applications from vulnerable people still stuck in the Taliban-led country, The Independent reported. The Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy aims…

JEDDAH: Iran’s troubled currency rial fell to a record low against the US dollar on Saturday amid discussions in the European to impose new sanctions on 37 Iranian officials and…

CAIRO: The mummy of Egypt’s King Ramses II will go on show in Saudi Arabia next week as part of a global tour of ancient Egyptian artifacts.The traveling exhibition, titled…

Los Angeles: At least 10 people have been killed and 10 injured in a mass shooting east of Los Angeles following a Lunar New Year celebration that attracted thousands, police…

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday there was “no alternative” but for the West to give Ukraine heavy tanks, as Germany failed to commit its sought-after…

Stockholm: Police in Sweden have said they will allow the leader of a hard-right political party to burn a copy of the Koran near the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm, reportedly…

ISLAMABAD: Moscow and Islamabad have reached “conceptual” agreements on supplies of Russian oil and petroleum products to Pakistan, Russian Deputy Energy Minister Sergey Mochalnikov said at a meeting of the…

BEIRUT: Lebanon has been stripped of its voting rights at the UN General Assembly for failing to pay its annual dues. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the government in Beirut must…

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 21 (APP): A high-level United Nations delegation, led by Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, Friday wrapped up its 4-day visit to Afghanistan during which it conveyed directly to…

Cultivated meat, grown from animal cells in a lab or manufacturing plant, has been getting a lot of attention as a way to side-step the environmental toll of the meat…

WASHINGTON: The Biden administration said Thursday it’s time for Turkiye to ratify Finland and Sweden’s applications to join NATO, bluntly saying that holdout members of the alliance should quickly approve…

ABU DHABI: The UAE has maintained its position as one of the safest places in the world, according to the Global Terrorism Index.The GTI provides a comprehensive summary of global…

PARIS: Train services, schools, flights, and scores of businesses in France were disrupted on Thursday as labor unions organized mass protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to raise the retirement…

New Delhi: The Indian Foreign Ministry has condemned the BBC for broadcasting a “propaganda piece” on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The documentary focuses on allegations that Modi’s government discriminates against…

Washington: US-based aircraft maintenance provider AAR Corporation could benefit from a provision in the recently enacted fiscal year (FY) 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that requires the US Air…

Washington: US President Joe Biden has instructed Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin to prepare an emergency plan to establish an American military-industrial base in the Kingdom of Morocco, the New York…

Kiev: Ukrainian Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky has been killed, police confirmed on Wednesday, after a helicopter he was traveling in crashed in a residential area in the town of Brovary…

MOSCOW: Belarus said Monday that joint air force drills with Russia began on its territory, amid concerns Minsk was being dragged into the Ukraine conflict to fight alongside Moscow.Minsk’s defense…

BEIJING: China’s population shrank last year for the first time in more than six decades, official data showed Tuesday, as the world’s most populous country faces a looming demographic crisis.The…

Abuja: Catholic priest Reverend Isaac Achi was burned alive on Sunday in a botched home invasion at his house in Kaffin Koro parish in Nigeria’s Niger state, a police spokesman…

ROME: Italian police have apprehended the country’s most-wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro. The authorities believe the leader of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra was involved in a series of high-profile murders…

Ukraine’s defeat may lead to a Third World War, meaning Germany and other NATO countries must step up and send Kiev more weapons, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki claimed on…

China’s new foreign minister, Qin Gang, has wrapped up his first overseas trip by calling for Israel to avoid further provocations that could escalate heightened tensions with Palestinians. “Israel should…

Phuket: The first drone delivery service in Thailand was launched in Phuket to support the ‘Smart City’ project by using technology in international tourism cities. The Grand Opening – 1st…

OKAYAMA — A public high school in this west Japan city will introduce new “gender-neutral” school rules in the 2023 academic year starting in April, with restrictions on hairstyles —…

LONDON: British Airways has unveiled a collection of new uniforms. The collection features a tailored three-piece suit for men with regular and slim fit style trousers, while women are offered…

WASHINGTON: Half of the Earth’s glaciers, notably smaller ones, are destined to disappear by the end of the century because of climate change, but limiting global warming could save others,…

Berlin: Germany will end the requirement to wear face masks on long-distance trains and buses from February 2nd as the coronavirus pandemic loosened its grip on the country, authorities announced…

Buenos Aires: China is allegedly making behind-the-scenes moves in Argentina to secure permission to establish a new naval base in the city of Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego province, which would…

Ukrainian forces have been precisely targeting Russian troops, wreaking havoc on their command and control centers throughout the ongoing war. However, it appears that the unapproved use of smartphones by…

Tokyo: Japan says it will release more than a million tonnes of water into the sea from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant this year. After treatment the levels of…

Tel Aviv: More than 80,000 Israeli protesters have rallied in Tel Aviv against plans by the new right-wing coalition government to overhaul the judiciary. The reforms would make it easier…

Beijing: China announced the latest figures of epidemic-related deaths, as the National Health Commission (NHC) revealed on Saturday a total of 59,938 COVID-19-related deaths between December 8, 2022 and January…

TotalEnergies will supply LNG and is contributing a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) to the Deutsche Ostsee LNG import terminal in Lubmin on the German Baltic Sea coast, which…

The Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO), has launched an investigation into its own staff, following allegations of suspected sabotage after a piece of its equipment collided with an Air Peace…

The Philippine Army has received a Sabrah ASCOD II light tank from Israel?s Elbit Systems. In a social media post, the Philippine Army’s Armor Division (AD) said that it has…

Syrians in most areas controlled by the Syrian opposition took to the streets on Friday to protest against the possible reconciliation between Damascus and Ankara, news agencies reported. The protesters…

Iran currently has enough enriched uranium to make four nuclear bombs, Israel’s outgoing military chief informed reporters on Friday. “Iran today has enough enriched material to produce four nuclear bombs,…

Russia has launched a new barrage of missiles at targets across Ukraine, killing at least 14 people in the eastern-central city of Dnipro and disrupting power supplies in the Kyiv…

An aircraft with 72 people on board has crashed in Nepal. The plane crashed on Sunday between the old and new Pokhara airports in central Nepal, according to media reports.…

WASHINGTON: Airlines in the United States resumed departures and a ground stop was lifted on Wednesday after a system outage the previous night had forced a halt to all departing…

Singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter and only child of Elvis Presley, died at the age of 54 on Thursday. The news came after Presley was rushed to the hospital…

Kyiv: A Silicon Valley company is using artificial intelligence to help Ukraine better predict and prepare for Russian airstrikes like the ones that have knocked out power to thousands of…

NEW DELHI — India’s top arms buyer on Tuesday approved a budget of 42.76 billion rupees (U.S. $522.17 million) to acquire weapons solely from domestic companies. The approved projects are…

RIYADH: Iran must fully respect its obligations to international treaties and end its pursuit of nuclear weapons as part of a regional push for peace, urged a joint statement released…

Joshimath: The Indian town of Joshimath, known as a gateway to the Himalayas, sank by 5.4cm, sometime between late December and early January, the Indian space agency has reported. The…

MNOSCOW: Russian forces have taken full control of the strategic Donbass town of Soledar, Moscow’s Defense Ministry confirmed on Friday. The news comes after Russian private military company Wagner Group…

Kiruna, Sweden, Jan 12 (AFP/APP): Europe’s largest known deposit of rare earth elements, essential for the manufacturing of electric vehicles, has been discovered in Sweden’s far north, boosting Europe’s hopes…

NEW YORK: A trio of Asian passports offers their holders greater global travel freedom than those of any other countries, according to a new quarterly report released by London-based global…

California: A general in the California National Guard has reportedly been fired after internal investigations found that he had exploited troops for personal use, such as driving him to medical…

MANILA: The acting Philippine defense chief has resigned, officials said Monday, in the latest in a series of top-level changes in the country’s security establishment that has sparked speculation of…

Oklahoma: A hundred Ukrainian soldiers are set to begin training on the Patriot missile system at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, “as soon as next week,” Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder…

London, Jan 10 (AFP/APP): After months of anticipation and a blanket publicity blitz, Prince Harry’s autobiography “Spare” went on sale Tuesday as royal insiders hit back at his scorching revelations.The…

ISLAMABAD, Jan 10 (APP): British High Commissioner Dr. Christian Turner on Tuesday said the United Kingdom had deep relations with Pakistan and had a strong desire for its economic growth.…

Mexico City, Jan 10 (AFP/APP): US President Joe Biden will travel to Canada in March for his first visit to the northern neighbor since taking office, the White House announced…

Washington, Jan 10 (AFP/APP): Major hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, drought, and a fierce winter storm caused more than $165 billion in damage in the United States last year with climate change…

New York: Boeing accelerated the pace of commercial plane deliveries in the fourth quarter, but again lagged arch-rival Airbus for all of 2022, according to company data released Tuesday.The US…

Lützerath, Germany, Jan 10 (AFP/APP): German police on Tuesday began removing climate activists perched precariously on high structures as they embarked on a “dangerous” operation to evacuate a protest camp…

ISLAMABAD, Jan 10 (APP): The World Bank in its latest report has forecast Pakistan’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to grow at 2.0% in the fiscal year 2022-23 (FY23) which…

Tel Aviv: Israel yesterday praised the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE)’s decision to include studies on the Holocaust in the secondary school curriculum, describing the move as “historic”. “In a historic decision, the…