Russian drone attack kills four in Kyiv
KYIV: According to authorities 4 people were killed and several were wounded in a Russian drone attack here on Wednesday (22 Jan, 2023). The emergency services initially said three people…
KYIV: According to authorities 4 people were killed and several were wounded in a Russian drone attack here on Wednesday (22 Jan, 2023). The emergency services initially said three people…
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron is to make Wednesday his first public comments on the crisis sparked by his government forcing through a pensions overhaul, which has sparked violent protests…
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe told parliament on Wednesday (22nd of March, 2023) that the IMF Extended Fund Facility (EFF) will restore Sri Lanka's international recognition, ensure the country…
KYIV: A rider in camouflage lies forward and hugs the neck of a horse called Peach, stroking his coat. In a cosy barn on the outskirts of Kyiv, a group…
PARIS: The French government under President Emmanuel Macron on Monday survived two no-confidence motions in parliament, but still faced intense pressure over its handling of a controversial pensions reform. Prime…
KABUL: Afghanistan's schools reopened for the new academic year Tuesday, but no classes were held as students were unaware of the start and hundreds of thousands of teenage girls remain…
KYIV: Russian President Vladimir Putin made a surprise trip to Mariupol, the Kremlin said, his first visit to territory captured from Ukraine since the start of Moscow's invasion. The visit…
MANHATTAN: The war in Ukraine has had very significant implications for global food insecurity, the top UN humanitarian official has told the Security Council, underscoring the critical need to extend…
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to Moscow next week, where he will hold talks with his strategic ally Vladimir Putin just over a year into…
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron's government on Thursday rammed a controversial pension reform through parliament without a vote, sparking angry protests in Paris and other cities as well as tumult…
Moscow said on Wednesday it would try to retrieve the wreckage of a US military drone that crashed over the Black Sea in a confrontation that Washington blamed on two…
GENEVA: Consultations to prolong a vital Ukrainian grain exports deal are continuing, the UN said Tuesday, after a Russian proposal for just a 60-day extension cast doubt over its fate.…
PARIS: Demonstrators in France took to the streets Saturday for a seventh day of protest against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform plans, with police expecting up to a million people…
ANKARA: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye welcomed the agreement of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran to resume diplomatic relations.…
PARIS: France welcomed the agreement of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran to resume diplomatic relations between them. The French Foreign Ministry said in a…
LOS ANGELES: NASA has been tracking a new asteroid named 2023 DW that has a 1/600 chance of impacting Earth in 2046. "Often when new objects are first discovered, it…
PYONGYANG: North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile on Thursday, Seoul’s military said, Pyongyang’s latest show of force just days before South Korea and the United States kick off major…
PARIS: France on Thursday (9th of March, 2023) warned of the unacceptable risk for nuclear safety and security from power cuts at a major Ukrainian power plant, after a Russian…
PARIS: French unions on Wednesday pressed a standoff with the government over a deeply unpopular pensions overhaul, with fuel deliveries, trains and flights disrupted for a second day following mass…
KYIV: UN chief Antonio Guterres said in Kyiv Wednesday that it was crucial to extend the international accord that allowed grain exports to resume from war-torn Ukraine. Russia's invasion last…
LOS ANGELES: While James Cameron's ecological sci-fi fable Avatar: The Way of Water is vying for best picture at the Oscars, his fellow nominees in the documentary categories have been…
OSMANIYE (Türkiye): A chef in southern Türkiye’s Adana province is distributing kebabs to earthquake victims. Yasar Aydin said he makes 6,000 sandwiches a day for earthquake victims and rescue teams…
WARSAW: Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant no longer produces electricity and serves solely as a military base for Moscow's troops, the exiled mayor of the city of Energodar, which houses…
MANHATTAN: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has voiced alarm at an Israeli regime minister's "unfathomable" call for the obliteration of an entire Palestinian village. Turk made…