Biden is ready to fete India’s leader, looking past Modi’s human rights record and...
WASHINGTON , 20 Jun (AP): — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is, on many counts, a curious choice for President Joe Biden to honor...
Japan entry controls to stay until more known about omicron
Tokyo, Dec 21 (AP) Japan will keep in place its recently reimposed strict border controls, which ban most foreign entrants, until more information is...
Gasoline truck explodes in northern Haiti; dozens killed
Port-Au-Prince (Haiti), Dec 14 (AP) A truck carrying gasoline exploded in northern Haiti, killing more than 50 people and injuring dozens of others, officials...
UN agency: 2M killed, $4.3 trillion in damages from extreme weather over past half-century
GENEVA (AP) — The economic damage of weather- and climate-related disasters continues to rise, even as improvements in early warning have helped reduce the...
Rise in Horn of Africa migration a worry, says UN official
NAIROBI, 15 Feb: The numbers of women and children migrating from the Horn of Africa to Gulf countries through Yemen has significantly increased and...
Death toll in southwestern China landslide rises to 34, with 10 people still missing
BEIJING, 24 Jan: The death toll from a landslide in a remote, mountainous part of southwestern China rose to 34 on Wednesday, while 10...
Slovakia’s president is ready to swear in a new Cabinet after partner replaces ministry...
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia , 24 Oct (AP) — Slovakia’s president is ready to swear in a new Cabinet led by a former populist prime minister...
A teacher dies and 2 people are wounded in stabbing in France. Anti-terror police...
PARIS (AP) — A man armed with a knife killed a teacher at the high school in northern France he once attended and critically...
Thousands break into aid warehouses in Gaza as deaths top 8,000 and Israel widens...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip, 29 Oct (AP) — Thousands of people broke into aid warehouses in Gaza to take flour and basic hygiene products,...
New Pakistan PM on 1st trip to Saudi amid political division
Dubai, Apr 29 (AP) Pakistan's newly elected prime minister was visiting Saudi Arabia Friday on his first foreign trip since taking office, an attempt...
New Zealand ski areas lacking snow face possible bankruptcy
WELLINGTON, New Zealand , Oct 11 (AP) — Two of New Zealand’s largest ski areas on Tuesday were placed into a type of bankruptcy...
Sweden halts adoptions from South Korea after claims of falsified papers on origins of...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, 29 Nov (AP) — Sweden’s main adoption agency said Wednesday it was halting adoptions from South Korea, following claims of falsified papers...
Russia cuts off natural gas supply to Denmark, company says
Copenhagen (Denmark), Jun 1 (AP) Denmark's largest energy company said Russia cut off its gas supply on Wednesday because it refused to pay in...
Fire razes school dormitory in Guyana, killing at least 20 children, many of them...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A nighttime fire raced through a school dormitory in Guyana early Monday, killing at least 20 students and injuring several...
US military leaders favoured keeping troops in Afghanistan
Washington, Sep 28 (AP) In their first congressional testimony on the tumultuous final months of America's longest war, top US military officers on Tuesday...
Sultan Mahmood takes oath as president of PoK
Islamabad, Aug 25 (PTI) Veteran politician Sultan Mahmood on Wednesday took oath as the new president of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Mahmood became the 28th president...
UN nuclear chief says security is still fragile at Ukraine’s Russian-occupied nuclear power plant
Kyiv, Feb 6 (AP) Security at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant remains fragile amid worrying recent staff cuts enacted by Russian authorities occupying the...
Russia happy about Iran joining SCO: President Putin tells Iranian counterpart Raisi
Samarkand, Sep 15 (PTI) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday met his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi here on the sidelines of the SCO Summit...
Armenia’s parliament votes to join the International Criminal Court, straining ties with ally Russia
YEREVAN, 3 Oct: Armenia’s parliament voted Tuesday to join the International Criminal Court, a move that further strains the country’s ties with its old...
Dozens of migrants are missing after a boat capsized off Yemen, officials say
SANAA, Yemen, 13 Nov (AP) — A migrant boat capsized off the coast of war-torn Yemen, leaving dozens of people, mostly from the Horn...