World News Desk: Nepal’s newly-appointed Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has decided to take the vote of confidence in the Parliament on January 10, an offici... Read more
AFP: The Israeli army carried out a missile strike Monday that put Damascus International Airport out of service and killed two soldiers, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported, quoti... Read more
AFP: Venezuela and Colombia reopened the last stretch of their shared border Sunday that had remained closed for years in a diplomatic dispute now settled under new leadership. Cars honked a... Read more
AFP: The Israeli air force said it had carried out overnight air strikes against sites of the Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip after a rocket was fired from the Palestinian enclave... Read more
AFP: A 5.7-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia’s main island of Java on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey said, less than two weeks after another quake in the same province... Read more
AFP: As many as 13,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed since Russia’s invasion in February, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. “We have official estimat... Read more
World News Desk: A record $51.5 billion is needed to help 230 million of the world’s most vulnerable people in nearly 70 countries next year, the UN said on Thursday (Dec 1). The size of the... Read more
AFP: New York and Singapore are jointly the world’s most expensive cities after inflation soared this year, an annual survey showed Thursday. The pair displaced last year’s numbe... Read more
AP/UNB: The European Union proposed Wednesday to set up a UN-backed specialized court to investigate possible war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, and to use frozen Russian assets to r... Read more
World News Desk: As earthquakes are persistent in Afghanistan, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has decided to construct 1,000 “earthquake-resilient” houses for over 8... Read more
AFP: A British cabinet minister on Tuesday vowed “more radical” policies to counter illegal migration as record numbers make the treacherous crossing of the Channel in small boat... Read more
AFP:Britain wants to grant ministers the power to overrule financial regulators including the Bank of England when they deem it in the public interest, the government confirmed Monday. Prime... Read more
AFP: After pulling out of the deal allowing vital Ukrainian grain exports via a maritime safety corridor, Russia said Monday that continuing to enforce the agreement without its participatio... Read more
World News: Authorities in the Kherson Region are planning to temporarily resettle some 50,000-60,000 people from the right bank of the Dnieper River to the left bank or to other Russian reg... Read more
BBC: Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after 45 days in office marked by turmoil, triggering the second Tory leadership election in four months. Ms Truss said her successor would be e... Read more
AFP: Pakistan’s finance minister has promised international lenders to stay true to economic reforms despite a new estimate that his country quickly needs more than $16 billion to reco... Read more
AFP: Rescuers on Saturday searched for the last miner missing at a coal mine in northern Turkey, where a methane blast the previous day killed at least 40 people in one of the country’... Read more
AFP: Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday ordered an audit of all football stadiums in the country, vowing to find the “root” cause of one of the deadliest disasters in... Read more
AFP: British Foreign Minister James Cleverly will on Tuesday declare that Britain has the “strategic endurance” to see Ukraine “through to victory” over Russia. In a... Read more
International News Desk: The US on Thursday imposed sanctions on companies it accused of involvement in Iran’s petrochemical and petroleum trade, including some based in China and India, pre... Read more
