Dec 20: There was a time when more than one of your TVs, computers, speaker systems or other essential electronic goods would have been made by Toshiba. Once a...

HONG KONG, Dec 20: At least 131 people were killed and hundreds more injured after an earthquake hit northwest China, state media reported Tuesday, as rescue teams scrambled to reach...

KYIV, Ukraine, Dec 20: Ukraine said nine people, including four children, were wounded by Russian shelling in the southern city of Kherson as drones also targeted the capital Kyiv and...

BEIJING, Dec 20: Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin in Beijing on Wednesday. Noting that since the beginning of this ...

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 20: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was deeply saddened by the earthquake in China, said his spokesman on Tuesday. The secretary-general was deeply sadde ...

GAZA, Dec 20:  The death toll of Palestinians from Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip has risen to 19,667, and 52,586 others were wounded since Oct. 7, the Hamas-run Health...

CAIRO, Dec 19: Egypt's National Election Authority (NEA) declared on Monday that incumbent President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi won the 2024 presidential election with some 40 million, or 89.6 percent of valid...

BUDAPEST, Dec 19: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed an agreement here on Monday elevating the bilateral ties to a "priority strategic" level. ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 19: The United States and Finland signed a defense cooperation agreement (DCA) on Monday, enhancing military collaboration between the two countries by obligating Helsinki to open its military...

Dec 19: A volcano has erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula of southwest Iceland after weeks of intense earthquake activity. About 4,000 people were earlier evacuated from the fishin ...

GENEVA, Dec 17: The emergency department at the Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza, devastated by Israeli bombardments, is "a blood bath" and is "in need of resuscitation", the WHO said Sunday....

GENEVA, Dec 17: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), reiterated his call on Friday for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Te ...

BRUSSELS, Dec 17: European Union (EU) leaders grappled with divisions on critical issues during a two-day European Council meeting, failing to reach a unanimous agreement on financial aid to Ukraine...

Dec 15: The Taliban government in Afghanistan is putting women abuse survivors in prison and claiming it is for their protection, according to a UN report. The UN said...

FRANKFURT, Dec 15: The European Central Bank (ECB), on Thursday, decided to leave its key interest rates unchanged. The interest rates on the main refinancing operations, the marg ...