UNITED NATIONS, Dec 1: Flooding in the last month has impacted 1.5 million people in Ethiopia, displacing more than 600,000 of them from their homes, UN humanitarians said on Thursday. ...

DUBAI, Dec 1: The 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP28, started here Thursday afternoon in...

Nov 30: Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who played a pivotal and polarising role in US foreign policy during the Cold War, has died at the age of...

ANKARA, Nov 30: Türkiye will step up its efforts for the release of the hostages and establishment of a lasting truce in the Gaza Strip, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

CAIRO, Nov 30: The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population launched on Wednesday an initiative to treat 1,000 Palestinian children injured during the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip. ...

GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Nov 29: A truce between Israel and Hamas enters its sixth day Wednesday after additional hostages were released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, with mediators pushing fo...

SILKYARA TUNNEL, India, Nov 29: After 17 days trapped inside a collapsed Himalayan road tunnel they were building, Indian workers described the horror of their ordeal, and the hopes and prayers...

A US military aircraft with eight personnel on board has crashed off Yakushima Island in Japan. Japan's coast guard told the BBC that rescue workers had found a passenger...

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 29: UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Najat Rochdi on Tuesday called for urgent de-escalation in Syria and warned of the spillover of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ...

Nov 28: Australia will ban imports of disposable vapes from January, in an effort to curb nicotine addiction in children. New laws to stop single-use vapes from being made,...

JOHANNESBURG, Nov 28: An elevator carrying workers to the surface at a giant South African platinum mine plunged out of control killing 11 and injuring 75, the mine operators said Tuesday. ...

DOHA/GAZA, Nov 28: Qatar announced on Monday that Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend the current humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip for an additional two days. In...

ISLAMABAD, Nov 27: Eight terrorists were killed during a clash between security forces and terrorists in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said. The security forces conducted an intelli...

Nov 27: New Zealand's new government says it plans to scrap the nation's world-leading smoking ban to fund tax cuts. The legislation, introduced under the previous Jacinda ...

Nov 27: The families of three Palestinian students shot on Saturday in the US state of Vermont have urged police to investigate the attack as a hate crime. Hisham...