India mourns former prime minister Manmohan Singh in state funeral

Dec 29, 2024

New Delhi [India], December 29: Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister widely regarded as the architect of the country's economic reform program, was cremated...

China approves the construction of world's largest hydropower dam in Tibet

Dec 29, 2024

Beijing [China], December 29: China has approved the construction of what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, stoking concerns about displacement of communities in...

Israel detains north Gaza hospital director as WHO condemns raids

Dec 29, 2024

Gaza [Palestine], December 29: Israel's army has detained the director of one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza, as the World Health Organization...

PM Fico offers Slovakia's 'hospitality' in possible Ukraine, Russia talks

Dec 29, 2024

Bratislava [Slovakia], December 29: Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has offered his country as a meeting place for possible talks on ending the war in...

Finland brings tanker suspected of damaging undersea cable to shore

Dec 29, 2024

Helsinki [Finland], December 29: Finnish police on Saturday transported a Russia- linked suspected of intentionally damaging a Baltic Sea power cable to shore.

Trump asks Supreme Court to delay law that could ban TikTok in the US

Dec 29, 2024

Washington [US], December 29: US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday stepped into the ongoing dispute over the potential ban of the China-based video app TikTok...

'Alarming' rise in climate disasters in Brazil: Study

Dec 29, 2024

Brasilia [Brazil], December 29: Brazil has seen a dramatic rise of climate disasters in recent years, compared to two previous decades, a new study says.

World Health Organization finds no mysterious 'Disease X' in Congo

Dec 29, 2024

Geneva [Switzerland], December 29: International health experts believe the wave of illnesses in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which had been...

Record number of children living in conflict zones: UNICEF

Dec 29, 2024

New York [US], December 29: More children than ever before live in conflict zones or have been forcibly displaced from their homes due to fighting,...