Category: World

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz threatened on Tuesday to halt the humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip if raocket attacks from the Palestinian enclave continue. He made the remarks after meeting a special Israeli commando unit in the occupied West Bank, a day after militants from Gaza fired a rocket towards southern Israel, Xinhua news […]

Reem bint Ebrahim Al Hashimy, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) minister of state for International Cooperation (MOFAIC), has summoned Amir Hayek, Israeli ambassador to the UAE, to “strongly protest and denounce the events taking place in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque,” according to a MOFAIC statement on Tuesday. The UAE protested the attacks on civilians and incursions […]

The World Bank has said that 34 percent of Pakistan’s population was living on just $3.2 or Pak Rs 588 a day income, Express Tribune reported. The Pakistan Development Update — the biennial report issued by the Washington-based lender — also said that soaring inflation disproportionately affected poor and vulnerable households that spend a relatively […]

South Korea will set up a task force to deal with its potential participation in a US- led economic framework, as the US has accelerated preparations to launch the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), Seoul’s trade ministry said Wednesday. The Joe Biden administration has sought to launch the IPEF for deeper cooperation with partner nations in […]

The “immediate need” is to “study the decline of naturally available resources” which is possibly linked with “climate change” said Bhutan Prime Minister Lotay Tshering on Tuesday, while advocating the exploration of technologies to restore the perishing flora. In pre-recorded video messages played at the groundbreaking ceremony of WHO’s Global Čentre for Traditional Medicine (GCTM) […]

Korea appears to be making final-stage preparations for a military parade involving a large number of troops ahead of another key anniversary next week, according to satellite imagery reported by US news outlets on Wednesday. More than 12,000 troops were seen gathering at a plaza of Mirim Airfield in Pyongyang earlier this week, Radio Free […]

Twenty people were killed and one person was injured in a road accident in Nigeria’s theastern state of Bauchi, traffic police said. The accident, which involved a commercial bus and a Sharan Volkswagen vehicle, occurred at Huturu village on the Bauchi-Kano road, Yusuf Abdullahi, a sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Bauchi, […]

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveyev completed their spacewalk after completing work in outer space and have returned to the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos said. The astronauts opened the hatch of the Poisk module at 18:00 Moscow time (1500 GMT) on Tuesday, Roscosmos said on […]

Ukraine and Russia conducted their fifth prisoner exchange since the start of the conflict, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said. As a result of the swap, 76 Ukrainian prisoners of-war, including 16 civilians, returned home following their release by Russian forces, Vereshchuk wrote on Telegram, Xinhua news agency reported. Of the 60 Ukrainian military […]

Russia has declared 15 diplomats from the Netherlands, an unspecified number of diplomats from Belgium, and four diplomats from Austria personae nongratae” in a tit-for-tat response, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. The ambassadors of the three countries were summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday in protest over their decisions to declare dozens of […]