Wednesday, November 20, 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
SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen the performance test of suicide attack drones and stressed the need for prompt full-scale mass production, the North’s state media reported Friday. Kim provided on-site guidance for the tes...
15 Nov 2024
ABUJA — Nigeria records at least 15,000 deaths related to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) every year despite efforts by the government to curb the spread of the deadly disease in the most populous African country, a local official said. T...
15 Nov 2024
BAKU — As world leaders meet at the 2024 UN climate conference (COP29) in Azerbaijan, a new report by an international development agency on Thursday said people living in 10 most climate-vulnerable countries received less than $1 a year in climate...
14 Nov 2024
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday won Republican nomination to remain in the position, after US President-elect Donald Trump appeared to have backed him during a meeting with House Republicans. Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, wa...
14 Nov 2024
ISLAMABAD — Former Pakistan Prime Minister and founder of Tehreek-e-Insaf party, Imran Khan has called on his party leaders and supporters to gear up for a “massive” anti-government long march and protest in capital Islamabad on Novembe...
13 Nov 2024
ISLAMABAD — China continues to vigorously push the proposal of deploying its own security staff for thousands of its citizens working in Pakistan following several deadly attacks carried against Chinese workers in the country which have severely jo...
13 Nov 2024
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka is set to hold on Thursday its snap parliamentary election – first after the 2022 economic crisis – amid deployment of nearly 90,000 security personnel across the country. Voting will take place at over 13,314 polling statio...
13 Nov 2024
John Ratcliffe is Trump’s pick to head CIA NEW YORK — US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he is appointing two maverick entrepreneurs — Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency (Do...
13 Nov 2024
Trump’s focus on allies’ security aligns with our foreign policy vision: South Korean FM SEOUL — South Korean National Security Advisor Shin Won-sik said on Tuesday that the country is no longer a “one-sided beneficiary” of ...
12 Nov 2024
TEHRAN — Iran and Russia linked their national payment systems on Monday, a significant move to bypass the US dollar in bilateral transactions, local media reported. The linkage between Russia’s Mir and Iran’s Shetab payment systems was...
12 Nov 2024
DHAKA — The Bangladeshi government has launched a special lounge for the country’s millions of migrant workers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the capital, Dhaka. Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus inaugurated the lounge on Mond...
12 Nov 2024
PORT-LOUIS — The Alliance of Change, the opposition coalition led by former Mauritian Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam, won the parliamentary election in the island country. According to final results released on Monday night, the opposition c...
12 Nov 2024
WASHINGTON — US Vice President Kamala Harris made her first appearance since delivering her concession speech, participating in a wreath-laying ceremony for Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery. The Vice President on Monday laid a wreath at ...
12 Nov 2024
JAKARTA — Mount Lewotobi, located in Indonesia’s Nusa Tenggara province, erupted again on Monday, forcing more than 12,000 residents to evacuate, according to the Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Centre and a local official. The...
11 Nov 2024
MOSCOW — Russia on Monday denied US media reports which claimed that the US President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have spoken over phone after the former’s win in the presidential election, last week. “There ...
11 Nov 2024
BAKU — With global temperatures hitting record highs and extreme weather events affecting people across the globe, a new study has identified 10 countries in Eastern Europe facing the biggest economic harm from future temperature rises — and ...
11 Nov 2024
HOUSTON — At least one person was killed and 16 others, including students, injured in a shooting on the campus of Tuskegee University in the southern US state of Alabama, authorities said. According to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s St...
11 Nov 2024
