Nations are spending too little to prevent disasters in the face of rising global calamities from the floods in South Africa to a...
Nations are spending too little to prevent disasters in the face of rising global calamities from the floods in South Africa to a...
Libya faces a serious security threat from foreign fighters and private military companies, especially Russia’s Wagner Group which has violated international law, U.N....
China’s financial hub, Shanghai, reported another Covid infection outside quarantine even as total case numbers in the city continue to decline; while the...
Tunis: A Tunisian judge has issued a travel ban on Friday against several people including Islamist Ennahda party Leader Rached Ghannouchi, a judicial...
KYIV: Ukrainian forces may have to retreat from their last pocket in the Luhansk region to avoid being captured, a Ukrainian official said,...
TAVERNES DE LA VALLDIGNA, Spain: A 14-metre (46-foot) long humpback whale freed from entanglement in an illegal drift fishing net off the island...
NICOSIA, Cyprus: Travelers to Cyprus will no longer be required to show either a valid COVID-19 vaccination or a recovery certificate and won’t...
ZURICH: Falling ice boulders killed two climbers and hurt nine more on a peak in southwestern Switzerland on Friday, prompting a major rescue...
WASHINGTON: The U.S. House of Representatives' oversight panel called on five gunmakers to hand over details on the manufacturing, marketing and sales of...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina: Argentina reported a case of the monkeypox virus on Friday in a man who recently traveled to Spain. It also...
UVALDE, Texas: The police response to Tuesday's Texas school massacre came under increasing scrutiny on Friday, a day after authorities acknowledged more than...
LONDON/NEW YORK: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has received $40 billion in pledges for its new Resilience and Sustainability Trust to address challenges...
McDonald's in Russia has registered possible brand names for the firm taking over its fast-food restaurants there, including "Fun and Tasty" and "The...
A killer whale - orca - that strayed from the ocean and began swimming up the River Seine in France earlier this month...
TAIPEI: The COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan has reached a plateau, with cases at a high but stable level, the government said on Friday,...
BEIJING: China has punished a number of local officials with demotions or dismissal for falsifying economic data, the country's statistics bureau said on...
GENEVA: A World Health Organization senior official said on Friday that the priority needs to be containing monkeypox in non-endemic countries, saying that...
Zurich: Switzerland will destroy more than 620,000 expired doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, health officials said on Friday, as demand for the shots...
