Saturday, April 27, 2024
STRASBOURG — The European Parliament is set to vote Wednesday on stricter limit values against air pollution. New upper limits are to apply from 2030 for particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and sulphur dioxide (SO2), among others. Representa...
24 Apr 2024
TEHRAN — A stadium ban for women is to be reintroduced in Iran, multiple local news reports said on Wednesday. The reports said that the Iranian FA has ordered the ban to be imposed in the north-western city of Tabriz in the wake of “repulsiv...
24 Apr 2024
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden is set to sign a historic bill regarding a huge foreign aid package on Wednesday, that will also ban TikTok in the country if its China-based owner ByteDance doesn’t sell its stake within a year. The US Senate ...
24 Apr 2024
KIEV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine would soon get the largest-ever military aid package from Britain worth 500 million pounds ($619 million). The package will contain Storm Shadow and other types of missiles, hundre...
24 Apr 2024
MOSCOW — Russia will intensify attacks on logistics centres and storage facilities of Western weapons in Ukraine, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said. In proportion to the threats posed by the US and its allies, Russia will continue to impr...
24 Apr 2024
BEIRUT — The damage caused by Israel to the agricultural field and other sectors in southern Lebanon is worth more than $3 billion, said Lebanese Agriculture Minister Abbas Hajj Hassan. Hajj Hassan added on Tuesday that the Ministry updates daily a...
24 Apr 2024
UNITED NATIONS — Pressing the case for Security Council reforms, India has highlighted the consensus arrived at the more representative G20 Summit on issues that could not make it through the UN’s highest decision-making body stuck in a ̶...
24 Apr 2024
SEOUL — South Korea is set to launch a homegrown earth observation nanosatellite into space this week, as part of its plan to create the country’s satellite constellation by 2027, the country’s science ministry said on Tuesday. Accordin...
23 Apr 2024
TEL AVIV — Southern Israeli border areas came under renewed rocket fire from Gaza on Tuesday, 200 days since the October 7 attacks which sparked the current conflict. Four rockets were intercepted by Israel’s missile defence system on Tuesday...
23 Apr 2024
ISTANBUL — Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amirabdollahian has condemned “planned” sanctions against his country over the major drone and missile attack on Israel earlier this month as “unlawful” and “regrettable.R...
23 Apr 2024
LONDON — UK Prime Minster Rishi Sunak said “nothing will stand in our way” of getting flights to Rwanda off the ground, as the government braced itself for legal challenges to the scheme to send asylum seekers to the east African countr...
23 Apr 2024
JERUSALEM — Lebanese armed group Hezbollah launched about 35 rockets toward northern Israel while Israel carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon, the Israeli military said in a statement. The rockets triggered air raid sirens in the city of Safe...
23 Apr 2024
MOSCOW — Russia will take necessary measures to ensure its security if Poland deploys nuclear weapons, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Polish President Andrzej Duda said earlier on Monday that Poland is ready to host US nuclear weapons in the...
23 Apr 2024
DAMASCUS — A convoy of US forces plundered more Syrian sources, taking out trucks of oil and grain through an illegal crossing with Iraq, the media reported. According to the state news agency SANA report released on Monday, 69 vehicles, including ...
23 Apr 2024
BANGKOK — The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) opened its 80th session in Bangkok on Monday, with global and regional leaders calling for digital innovation to bolster the effort required to achieve the...
22 Apr 2024
BANGKOK — The military junta in crisis-hit Myanmar has responded to the takeover of the important trading town of Myawaddy by rebel groups with heavy airstrikes. Since Friday, the army has dropped at least 130 bombs over the town on the border with...
22 Apr 2024
MADRID — The separatist left-wing coalition EH Bildu celebrated a historic success in the Basque regional elections on Sunday. With around 95 per cent of votes counted the alliance, which advocates independence for the region in the north of Spain,...
22 Apr 2024
SEOUL — South Korea will join hands with the US in optimising nuclear proliferation resistance in its research reactors for export, Seoul’s science ministry said on Monday. A joint statement issued by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the U...
22 Apr 2024
WASHINGTON/KIEV — The US House of Representatives approval — after months of wrangling — of a nearly $61 billion military aid package for Ukraine has not come too late, but the delay has had real consequences, NATO’s Chief Jens St...
22 Apr 2024
JERUSALEM — Israeli war Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz urged US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a phone call to reconsider potential sanctions against an Israeli military unit, his office said. The call with Blinken came after Israeli media repo...
22 Apr 2024
TEHRAN — Despite fierce protests from society, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi wants to maintain strict police checks on women for headscarf offences. “Respecting the headscarf is not only a religious but also a political and legal oblig...
22 Apr 2024
COLOMBO — At least seven persons were killed while 23 others were injured after a car veered off the track during a high-octane car race in central hills in Sri Lanka on Sunday. Police Media Spokesperson DIG Nihal Thalduwa said that among the seven...
21 Apr 2024
ISLAMABAD — Two Customs officials were shot dead in the Dera Ismail Khan district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, in the second attack on officials of the department in four days, reports said. Four others were injured in...
21 Apr 2024
DHAKA — The death toll due to scorching heat in Bangladesh has mounted to four on Sunday. A middle-aged woman reportedly died on Sunday morning, pushing the death toll due to blistering heat to four in the past two days, Xinhua news agency reported...
21 Apr 2024
ISLAMABAD —Russia has warned Pakistan of banning rice imports from the country again after detecting the presence of a quarantine organism in a recent shipment, reports said on Sunday. Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary...
21 Apr 2024
