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Strong quake rocks Taiwan, tsunami warnings issued

Strong quake rocks Taiwan, tsunami warnings issued

Taipei [Taiwan], April 3: An earthquake offshore Taiwan with a magnitude of 7.2 rocked the capital Taipei on Wednesday morning,...

Deadly air strike shows system to protect aid workers in crisis, agencies say

Deadly air strike shows system to protect aid...

New York [USA], April 3: A UN official says the Israeli attack which killed seven staff of the charity World...

International pressure grows over Israeli strike on World Central Kitchen staff

International pressure grows over Israeli strike on World...

Jerusalem [Israel], April 3: Israel faces growing international pressure over an air strike which killed seven aid workers for charity...

UN Secretary-General condemns targeting of Iranian Diplomatic Mission in Damascus

UN Secretary-General condemns targeting of Iranian Diplomatic Mission...

New York [USA], April 3: Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, condemned the attack on diplomatic premises of the...

Abdullah bin Zayed meets with Hungarian counterpart in Budapest

Abdullah bin Zayed meets with Hungarian counterpart in...

Budapest [Hungary], April 3: H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with Peter Szijjarto, Minister...

Search for survivors called off after Russian gold mine accident

Search for survivors called off after Russian gold...

Moscow [Russia], April 2: Two weeks after an accident at one of Russia's largest gold mines, the search for survivors...

Erdogan's ruling party loses mayoral race in Istanbul

Erdogan's ruling party loses mayoral race in Istanbul

Ankara [Turkey], April 2: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AKP party has lost the mayoral election in Turkey's largest...

Former Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou visits China aiming to ease tension

Former Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou visits China aiming...

Taipei [Taiwan], April 2: Former Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou on Monday started an 11-day trip to China, aiming to ease...

Cypriot coastguard rescues 150 migrants from boats off Cape Greco

Cypriot coastguard rescues 150 migrants from boats off...

Nicosia [Cyprus], April 2: The Cypriot coastguard rescued around 150 migrants from three boats east of the island on Monday,...

Hamas blames US for raid on largest hospital

Hamas blames US for raid on largest hospital

Gaza [Palestine], April 2: Palestinian movement Hamas accused the United States on Monday of being responsible for the devastation Israeli...

Death and destruction as Israel's army withdraws from al-Shifa Hospital

Death and destruction as Israel's army withdraws from...

Gaza [Palestine], April 2: Israel has withdrawn its forces from Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital following a two-week operation, leaving behind scenes...

White House calls Israel's move to ban Al Jazeera 'concerning'

White House calls Israel's move to ban Al...

Washington [US], April 2: White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre has expressed concern about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's push to stop...

US airman starts hunger strike to draw attention to plight of Gaza's children

US airman starts hunger strike to draw attention...

Washington [US], April 2: Veterans for Peace has said US Air Force senior airman Larry Hebert would start a hunger...

Highway crash kills 4, injures over 30 in Bolivia

Highway crash kills 4, injures over 30 in...

La Paz [Bolivia], April 2: Four people were killed and about 36 others injured when a passenger bus plunged off...

Russia arrested four more suspects in a terrorist attack near Moscow

Russia arrested four more suspects in a terrorist...

Moscow [Russia], April 2: Russia's FSB security agency said that four people arrested on March 31 provided money and weapons...

North Korea launches ballistic missiles, South Korea and Japan watch closely

North Korea launches ballistic missiles, South Korea and...

Pyongyang [North Korea], April 2: Yonhap news agency on April 2, citing information from the South Korean military, said that...

The US considers selling Israel an 18 billion USD weapons package, including F-15 fighters

The US considers selling Israel an 18 billion...

Washington [US], April 2: The US government is considering an $18 billion arms deal with Israel, while Israel "considers" Washington's...

Prosecutors: Trump intimidating trial witnesses

Prosecutors: Trump intimidating trial witnesses

New York [US], April 2: New York prosecutors on Monday urged a judge to forbid Donald Trump from criticizing family...

Criticism over punishing US inmates for social media

Criticism over punishing US inmates for social media

Washington [US], April 2: A proposed change to U.S. federal prison rules that would punish inmates for using social media...

Israel bombs Iran embassy in Syria, Iranian commanders among dead

Israel bombs Iran embassy in Syria, Iranian commanders...

Jerusalem [Israel], April 2: Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran's embassy in Syria on Monday, a marked escalation in a war...

Egypt, Jordan stress rejection of displacement of Palestinians outside their lands

Egypt, Jordan stress rejection of displacement of Palestinians...

Cairo [Egypt], April 2: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein of Jordan have stressed their...

Bangladesh mulls to suspend services of Facebook, YouTube: minister

Bangladesh mulls to suspend services of Facebook, YouTube:...

Dhaka [Bangladesh], April 1: A Bangladeshi minister on Sunday said that the country would temporarily suspend services Facebook and YouTube...

Indonesia sees dengue case surge in Q1

Indonesia sees dengue case surge in Q1

Jakarta [Indonesia], April 1: Dengue fever cases in Indonesia in the first quarter of 2024 has increased almost three times...

Germany's Easter marchers demand end to fighting in Ukraine and Gaza

Germany's Easter marchers demand end to fighting in...

Berlin [Germany], March 31: Thousands of people across Germany on Saturday joined the country's traditional Easter marches that emerged from...

52 killed in Zionist strikes on Hezbollah in Syria, Lebanon

52 killed in Zionist strikes on Hezbollah in...

Beirut [Lebanon], March 31: The death toll in Zionist air strikes on Syria has risen to 52, including 38 government...

Japanese health officials search food supplement firm after deaths

Japanese health officials search food supplement firm after...

Tokyo [Japan], March 31: Japanese health authorities have searched a factory operated by the Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Company in Osaka following...

Nine arrested in Tajikistan after Moscow concert hall attack

Nine arrested in Tajikistan after Moscow concert hall...

Moscow [Russia], March 31: Nine people have been arrested in the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan one week after a...