World
The number of people forcibly displaced from their homes worldwide has dropped slightly from a record peak but remains "untenably high", the United Nations said Thursday.A record 123.2 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced from their homes at the end of 2024, said UNHCR, the UN ...
Tokyo said Thursday it had expressed "serious concerns" to Beijing after Chinese fighter jets flew dangerously close to a Japanese military patrol plane in the Pacific last weekend.The incident followed the sighting of two Chinese aircraft carriers sailing in the Pacific together for the f...
Oman said Thursday it will host a sixth round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran over the weekend amid escalating tensions between the long-time foes."I am pleased to confirm the 6th round of Iran US talks will be held in Muscat this Sunday," Foreign Minister Badr Albusaid...
Thailand's Medical Council reaffirmed on Thursday its decision to sanction three physicians over the treatment of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra following his return from exile, after the health minister tried to veto the punishment.Thaksin returned to the kingdom in August 2023 and wa...
Washington: The World Bank is re-entering the nuclear energy space "for the first time in decades," its President Ajay Banga said Wednesday, as it works towards meeting growing electricity demand in developing countries.Banga said in an email to staff that the bank will work closely with U...
World,Politics
Geneva: The United Nations human rights chief today demanded the United States lift sanctions it imposed on four International Criminal Court judges, saying they were contrary to the rule of law."I am profoundly disturbed by the decision of the Government of the United States of America to sanc...
National,World,Travel & Tourism
MINA, Saudi Arabia: Pilgrims were set to perform the last major ritual of the hajj -- the "stoning of the devil" -- on Friday, as Muslims around the globe celebrated the beginning of the Eid al-Adha holiday.Starting at dawn, the more than 1.6 million Muslims taking part in the pilgrimage w...
Sports,Football
After a warm welcome to Brazil, Carlo Ancelotti, the Selecao’s first foreign coach in more than 50 years, is on a mission to fix a stuttering team and win back fans which starts on Thursday against Ecuador in a World Cup qualifier. The match will start on 5:00 AM, Friday, Bangladesh time. ...
Around 20,000 people were being evacuated from central Cologne Wednesday after three unexploded World War II bombs were found, the biggest such operation in the German city since the end of the war.Bomb squad technicians were planning to defuse the three American explosives, two weighing 1,000 kilog...
Nearly two million worshippers were set to join Islam's most important rite under a beating sun as the hajj pilgrimage kicked off Wednesday, with authorities scrambling to avoid last year's 1,000-plus deaths in sweltering heat.In temperatures that are expected to climb to more than 40 degree...
Eleven children were buried alive while excavating sand in northern Nigeria when a pit collapsed on Tuesday, police said.The children, aged between four and nine, were excavating sand for making mud bricks when the pit outside Yardoka village in Kaduna state collapsed on them."Eleven of the chi...
More than 200,000 Afghans have left Pakistan since the government renewed a deportation drive in April, Islamabad's interior ministry told AFP.Pakistan has launched a strict campaign to evict more than 800,000 Afghans who have had their residence permits cancelled, including some who were born i...
South Korea's centre-left Lee Jae-myung was declared president Wednesday after winning a snap election, taking the helm of a nation deeply divided after his predecessor's disastrous attempt to declare martial law.Lee won a thumping victory over conservative Kim Moon-soo, of disgraced ex-pres...
Sports,Tennis
The 2022 Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios said Tuesday that he will miss this year's tournament and the grass-court season after "a small setback" on his latest injury return.The 30-year-old Australian has played very little tennis over the last two years because of various injuries, no...
US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping will likely hold a long-awaited call later this week, the White House said Monday, as trade tensions between the world's two biggest economies ratchet back up.Trump reignited strains with China last week when he accused the world'...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said flights by Syria's national carrier to Turkey would start "soon"."Syrian Airlines will soon start flights to Turkey," he said in a post on X, without saying when they would happen.He also said he hoped Turkey's AJet wo...
With growing influence after its recapture of Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenian separatists in 2023, Azerbaijan is using its close ties with Israel and Turkey to defuse tensions between the regional foes in Syria.Azerbaijan's top foreign policy adviser Hikmet Hajiyev confirmed Baku has hosted more ...
Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigned on Tuesday, a parliamentary statement said, after losing a confidence vote among lawmakers.The secret ballot followed days of protests in the capital Ulaanbaatar against alleged corruption.Speaking after the result of the vote was announce...
Twin attacks on a Malian army base in the northern city of Timbuktu and in the centre of the country left dozens of soldiers dead, as well as at least a dozen assailants, security sources and local officials said on Monday.Timbuktu came under attack and shells were also fired at the airport where he...
The Israeli army said it intercepted a missile launched Monday from Yemen, whose Huthi rebels claimed an attack targeting Israel's main airport."Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in several areas in Israel, a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted," the army said...
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