Report: Oil price cap takes small slice of Russia’s revenue
FRANKFURT, Germany , 11 Jan (AP) — A price cap and European Union embargo on most Russian oil have cut into Moscow’s revenue from...
G-20 diplomats fail on unity over Ukraine, war’s impact
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — Deeply divided top diplomats from the world’s richest and largest developing nations failed to find common ground Friday over...
Hezbollah introduces new weapons and tactics against Israel as war in Gaza drags on
BEIRUT, 17 May (AP) — The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah this week struck a military post in northern Israel using a drone that fired...
Gaza fire kills 21 from one family during birthday party
JABALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip, Nov 18 (AP) — Twenty-one victims of a fire that tore through a top-floor apartment in the Gaza Strip...
ISIL-K seeks to recruit members from other terror groups; to develop threat capability from...
United Nations, Jul 31 (PTI) Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant-Khorasan (ISIL-K) seeks to strengthen its capabilities by recruiting members from other terror...
Nord Stream 2 pipeline firm gets 6-month stay of bankruptcy
BERLIN, 28 Dec: A Swiss court has granted a six-month “stay of bankruptcy” to the operating company for the never-opened Nord Stream 2 pipeline,...
Moscow says 50 Ukrainian drones shot down as attacks spark fires at Russian power...
KYIV, 20 Apr: Ukraine launched a barrage of drones across Russia overnight, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said Saturday, in attacks that appeared to...
Monkeypox cases rise 77% in UN agency’s latest weekly count
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization on Thursday reported a 77% weekly increase in the number of lab-confirmed monkeypox cases, to more than...
China says latest round of talks with India on border issue ‘positive and constructive’;...
Beijing, Jan 27 (PTI) China on Thursday described as "positive and constructive" the latest round of military-level talks with India and said Beijing will...
Turkey: Crashes at emergency sites kill at least 35 people
ISTANBUL , 21 Aug (AP) — Turkish authorities on Sunday investigated a pair of secondary crashes at emergency sites that killed at least 35...
Mideast nations wake up to damage from climate change
CAIRO , Jul 25 (AP) — Temperatures in the Middle East have risen far faster than the world’s average in the past three decades....
UK says time running out for solution in Brexit trade talks
London, 24 Oct (AP): The British government tried Saturday to speed up the pace of talks to resolve post-Brexit trade troubles with the European...
Colombia picks 1st leftist president in tight runoff contest
BOGOTA, 20 Jun: Colombia will be governed by a leftist president for the first time after former rebel Gustavo Petro narrowly defeated a real...
European Union announces an $8 billion aid package for Egypt as concerns mount over...
CAIRO, 17 Mar: The European Union on Sunday announced a 7.4 billion-euro ($8 billion) aid package for cash-strapped Egypt as concerns mount that economic...
China eases controls, gives no sign when ‘zero COVID’ ends
BEIJING , 6 Dec (AP) — China is easing some of the world’s most stringent anti-virus controls and authorities say new variants are weaker....
Pak School Teacher Killed By Colleague, Students For “Blasphemy”: Police
Islamabad, Mar 30 (AFP): A teacher at an all-girls religious school was killed by a woman colleague and two students who accused her of...
Waves of suicide drones strike Ukraine’s capital, 4 killed
KYIV, Ukraine, Oct 17 (AP) — Waves of explosives-laden suicide drones struck Ukraine’s capital Monday, setting buildings ablaze and tearing a hole in one...
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza’s south kills at least 9 Palestinians, including 6 children
RAFAH, 20 Apr: An Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah killed at least nine people, six of them children,...
US intends to have frank conversations with China on trade ties, says USTR
Washington, Oct 4 (PTI) The US intends to have frank conversations with China on its trade ties, including discussion over Beijing's performance under the...
Anti-Taliban Forces Massing North Of Kabul, Russia Says
Moscow, Aug 19 (AFP): Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that armed resistance to the Taliban is forming in Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley, led...