UAE delegation visits Emirati integrated field hospital in Gaza
Gaza [Palestine], January 27: An Emirati medical delegation visited the integrated field hospital established by the UAE in the Gaza Strip to support the health...
Cambodian FM to attend ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Retreat in Laos
Phnom Penh [Cambodia], January 26: Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sok Chenda Sophea will take part in the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Retreat in...
Ruling alliance wins most seats in Nepal's National Assembly election
Kathmandu [Nepal], January 26: The candidates from Nepal's ruling parties won 18 out of 19 seats in the National Assembly election held on Thursday in...
Record cocaine haul seized in Bangladesh's main airport
Dhaka [Bangladesh], January 26: A total of 8.3 kg cocaine was seized in Bangladesh's main airport in capital Dhaka on Wednesday night by the Department...
Girl dies in hospital after being saved from refugee boat
Nicosia [Cyprus], January 26: A Syrian girl died in hospital on Thursday after being rescued from an overcrowded refugee boat, Cyprus's medical authorities have announced.
Philippine Navy joins search for 11 passengers of 2 missing boats
Manila [Philippines], January 26: The Philippine Navy on Thursday deployed a helicopter to search for 11 missing passengers of two motorboats that capsized off Palawan...
5.1-magnitude quake hits 94 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea: USGS
Port Moresby [Papua New Guinea], January 26: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted 94 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea at 18:25:14...
Israeli army calls on more Khan Younis residents to flee
Gaza [Palestine], January 26: The Israeli army is calling on more Palestinian residents of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip to flee.
Train driver strike paralyses rail transport in Germany
Berlin [Germany], January 26: Germany's state-owned railway Deutsche Bahn faced massive disruptions and widespread cancellations on Wednesday as train drivers from the GDL trade union...
US, UK sanction senior Houthis; rebels say Red Sea attacks will continue
Sanaa [Yemen], January 26: The United States and United Kingdom have issued new sanctions on leaders of Yemen's Houthis, as the group pledges to continue...
At least 12 dead in incident at UN facility
Gaza [Palestine], January 26: The death toll at a UN facility that was sheltering civilians in the south of the Gaza Strip rose to 12...
Woman gets 27 years in prison for murder of Russian war supporter
Moscow [Russia], January 26: Darya Trepova was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Thursday for a deadly bomb attack on a Russian military blogger.
Russia risked lives in downed plane, says Ukrainian president
Kyiv [Ukraine], January 26: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Moscow of "playing with the lives of Ukrainian prisoners", after a deadly plane crash in...
US Supreme Court allows execution with nitrogen to go ahead
Washington [US], January 26: The US Supreme Court on Wednesday did not move to stop the planned execution, using nitrogen, of a criminal in the...
US support for Taiwan 'firm', lawmakers tell president-elect Lai
Taipei [Taiwan], January 26: Two US lawmakers met Taiwanese president-elect Lai Ching-te on Thursday to reaffirm Washington's support for the self-ruled island, which China claims...
Russia jails nationalist critic Girkin for 4 years
Moscow [Russia], January 26: Russian nationalist and ex-rebel commander Igor Girkin, whose pro-Moscow militants sparked a decade-long armed conflict in east Ukraine, was jailed for...
S Korean ruling party MP attacked in street: Yonhap
Seoul [South Korea], January 26: A South Korean ruling party lawmaker was struck on the head with a rock by an unidentified assailant on a...
Florida lawmakers vote to restrict children's access to social media
Florida [US], January 26: The Florida House of Representatives approved on Wednesday a bill aimed at barring children aged 16 and younger from social media...
Trump opens up lead over Biden in rematch many Americans don't want
Washington [US], January 26: Donald Trump leads Democratic President Joe Biden by six percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll that showed Americans are unhappy about...
Russia says Ukraine had 15-minute warning on PoW flight
Moscow [Russia], January 26: A senior Russian lawmaker said Ukrainian military intelligence had been given a 15-minute warning before a Russian military transport plane carrying...
Gaza starves as Israel presses war on Hamas
Gaza [Palestine], January 26: In battered, hard-to-reach north Gaza, rare aid deliveries get mobbed by desperate, hungry Palestinians and aid workers report seeing people thin...
Yemen's Houthis claim launching missile attacks at U.S. commercial vessels, navy warships
Sanaa [Yemen], January 25: Yemen's Houthi group said it hit an American warship on Wednesday in the Gulf of Aden and the Bab al-Mandab strait,...
Cyprus rescues 60 migrants lost at sea
Nicosia [Cyprus], January 25: Sixty migrants were rescued from a small boat off Cyprus on Wednesday after being stranded at sea for days, the country's...
Zelensky, Scholz discuss defense support for Ukraine
Kiev [Ukraine], January 25: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday discussed defense support for Ukraine in a phone conversation.
Moldova names new foreign minister
Chisinau [Moldova], January 25: Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean announced on Wednesday that Vice President of Parliament Mihai Popsoi will take over as the new...
U.S. stocks end mixed, S&P 500 hitting new high
New York [US], January 25: U.S. stocks ended mixed on Wednesday, as the S&P 500 notched its fourth consecutive record high, fueled by Netflix's stellar...
New Zealand household saving steady, net worth increases
Wellington [New Zealand], January 25: New Zealand household saving was 856 million NZ dollars (522.95 million U.S. dollars) in the September 2023 quarter, relatively unchanged...