Thursday, April 11, 2024
BRATISLAVA — Slovakia’s incumbent Speaker of the National Council Peter Pellegrini won the country’s second round of the presidential election held on Saturday, according to preliminary results published by Slovakia’s Statistical ...
07 Apr 2024
ISLAMABAD — At least 10 terrorists were killed in Pakistan by the security forces in two separate operations, the media reported on Saturday, citing officials. According to the media wing of the Pakistani military, security forces carried out intel...
06 Apr 2024
KYIV — At least 10 people were killed and dozens of others wounded in Russian strikes on Ukraine in the past 24 hours, local authorities said Saturday. Four people were killed and 23 injured in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia in missile strikes, ...
06 Apr 2024
MOSCOW — Russia has warned Ukraine and its Western allies against attempts to attack or destabilize the situation on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (NPP). “We urge the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and its management to acti...
06 Apr 2024
UNITED NATION — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for a paradigm shift in Israel’s military strategy in Gaza and in aid delivery to save lives. Following this week’s appalling killing of seven humanitarian workers from Wo...
06 Apr 2024
SEOUL — Turnout for the parliamentary elections in South Korea topped 10 million during the second and final day of early voting on Saturday. According to the National Election Commission (NEC), 10,365,722 out of 44,280,011 eligible voters had cast...
06 Apr 2024
WASHINGTON — A 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit eastern parts of the United States on Friday morning with the epicentre in Lebanon, New Jersey, 50 miles (80 km) from New York. There were no reports of casualties or damage to property. Tremors were felt...
05 Apr 2024
SEOUL — Early voting began Friday ahead of next week’s parliamentary elections in South Korea, with turnout reaching a record high amid high interest in the vote seen as a midterm referendum on the administration of President Yoon Suk Yeol. V...
05 Apr 2024
MOSCOW — Governor of Russia’s Murmansk region Andrei Chibis, who was stabbed in the stomach after a meeting in the town of Apatity on Thursday, is in a “serious condition”. Chibis, 45, is in a serious condition and is being operat...
05 Apr 2024
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden on Thursday told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that America’s support of Israel’s war in Gaza would be determined by the latter announcing and implementing a “series of specific, con...
05 Apr 2024
TEHRAN — Iran’s Vice President for Legal Affairs Mohammad Dehqan has said that the country would file a lawsuit against Israel for its “deadly attack” on the Iranian consulate in Syria. Dehqan made the remarks on Wednesday in an a...
04 Apr 2024
HARARE — Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday declared a state of disaster due to an El Nino-induced drought threatening food security in the country. “The current agricultural season of 2023/2024 has not performed according t...
03 Apr 2024
DHAKA — Nearly 1 million Bangladeshi people are projected to join the ranks of the moderately poor, who earn less than $3.65 a day in purchasing power parity (PPP), said the World Bank in its Poverty Macro Update on Bangladesh. Released as part of ...
03 Apr 2024
TAIPEI — At least nine people were killed and 800 others injured after a 7.3-magnitude quake jolted Taiwan on Wednesday morning, according to the local emergency operation centre. Data from the centre showed that about 821 people were injured follo...
03 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Semiconductor and display plants, including world’s largest chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), were evacuated after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan on Wednesday morning. Tech companies in the country...
03 Apr 2024
BEIJING/TAIPEI — A 7.3-magnitude earthquake jolted the sea area near Hualien of Taiwan at 7:58 a.m. Wednesday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). A red alert for tsunami has been issued after the earthquake. Th...
03 Apr 2024
SEOUL — North Korea on Wednesday claimed it has successfully test-fired a new intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) tipped with a hypersonic warhead, saying that all missiles the country has developed are now solid-fuel and nuclear-capable wi...
03 Apr 2024
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden has said that he is “outraged and heartbroken” by the deaths of seven humanitarian workers from World Central Kitchen (WCK), including one American, in Gaza on Monday. “They were providing food ...
03 Apr 2024
ISLAMABAD — In a major expose of corruption scandal in the sale of land of Walton Airport in Pakistan’s Lahore cantonment area; the Aircraft Owners & Operators Association (AOOA) has written a letter to the Federal Aviation Minister detai...
02 Apr 2024
SEOUL — The South Korean government is open to talks with doctors if they come up with a unified and reasonable solution to resolve an impasse over a reform to hike the number of medical students, a senior official said on Tuesday. The comments by ...
02 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — After surviving two recent lunar nights, Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has now gone dormant, the country’s space agency JAXA said on Monday. SLIM, also known as “Moon Sniper” in Japanese, touched dow...
01 Apr 2024
ISLAMABAD — In a major positive development for former Pakistan Premier Imran Khan and his wife, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has suspended the 14-year sentence of the former Prime Minister and his wife Bushra Bibi in the Toshakhana case. Imran K...
01 Apr 2024
TEL AVIV — The US and Israel will hold a virtual meeting of senior officials regarding the Rafah operations. The meeting will be held later on Monday. The US side is likely to be led by Brett McGurk, the Special envoy of the US President in charge ...
01 Apr 2024
GAZA — At least 36 Palestinians were killed and dozens others wounded in overnight Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said. In the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Younis, at least 11 were killed and dozens of others injur...
01 Apr 2024
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had undergone a hernia surgery on Sunday night, his office said in a statement. Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister, Yariv Levin, will temporarily fill the premier role whe...
01 Apr 2024
