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Yemen's warring parties receive UN proposal for truce...
Aden (Yemen), October 2: An updated UN proposal calling for an extension of the existing truce set to expire on...
Czech gov't parties win Senate elections
Prague (Czech Republic), September 2: The leading government coalition party, the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), won the most seats in...
Myanmar reports 473 new COVID-19 cases
Yangon (Myanmar), October 2: Myanmar confirmed 473 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to...
PLO warns of settlement expansion ahead of upcoming...
Ramallah (Palestine), October 2: Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Saturday warned that the Israeli settlement construction took "center stage" in...
OPEC+ to hold first in-person ministerial meeting since...
Vienna (Austria), October 2: The OPEC+ oil cartel will meet in Vienna at the ministerial level on Oct. 5 to...
PM's party wins Latvian parliamentary elections: exit poll
Riga (Latvia), September 2: Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins' center-right party New Unity on Saturday won the Baltic country's parliamentary...
Portugal changes visa regime for foreign jobseekers
Lisbon [Portugal], October 1: Foreign citizens seeking work in Portugal can stay in the country for six months under a...
Avian flu detected in Lisbon
Lisbon [Portugal], October 1: A new outbreak of avian flu has been confirmed at a commercial unit for raising turkeys...
NASA reveals first image of Jupiter's moon Europa...
Los Angles [US], October 1: NASA has revealed the first picture of Jupiter's ice-encrusted moon Europa, which was taken by...
Ian makes landfall in U.S. South Carolina as...
Washington [US], October 1: Ian made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the coast of the southeastern U.S. state...
Hurricane Ian destroys 8,583 hectares of crops in...
Havana [Cuba], October 1: Hurricane Ian destroyed 8,583 hectares of cropland in western Cuba, the weekly Tribuna de La Habana...
Number of active U.S. drilling rigs up this...
Houston [US], October 1: The number of active drilling rigs in the United States rose to 765 this week, up...
NASA shifts Crew-5 launch to ISS due to...
Los Angeles [US], October 1: The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than...
Oil prices drop as demand worries prevail
New York [US], October 1: Oil prices fell on Friday as traders worried about a deteriorating demand outlook.
U.S. Congress approves stopgap funding bill ahead of...
Washington [US], October 1: The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved a stopgap funding bill to fund the government...
Dow sinks 500 points following hot U.S. inflation...
New York [US], October 1: U.S. stocks fell sharply on Friday, as investors were worried about the prospect of further...
Annual airshow returns to skies over Southern California
Los Angeles [US], October 1: The Pacific Airshow, one of the largest airshows in the United States, returned to the...
Chinese embassy in Vietnam holds online celebration for...
Hanoi [Vietnam], October 1: The Chinese Embassy in Vietnam on Friday held an online event celebrating the 73rd anniversary of...
Myanmar extends COVID-19 restrictions until end of October
Yangon [Myanmar], October 1: Myanmar will extend its COVID-19 preventive measures until Oct. 31, according to the Central Committee on...
6.0-magnitude quake strikes off western Indonesia, no casualty...
Jakarta [Indonesia], October 1: An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 jolted Indonesia's western province of North Sumatra on Saturday...
Suicide blast kills 19, wounds 27 in Afghan...
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 1: At least 19 people were killed and 27 others wounded on Friday in a suicide explosion...
S. Korean military says DPRK fires 2 ballistic...
Seoul [South Korea], October 1: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern...
Syria launches PV project to address energy shortage
Damascus [Syria], September 30: Syria on Thursday launched the first stage of a photovoltaic power project to address the country's...
Israeli elections committee bars Arab party from running...
Jerusalem [Israel], September 30: An Israeli-Arab party was disqualified from running in the country's November elections over allegations of promoting...
Kuwait holds parliamentary elections
Kuwait City [Kuwait], September 30: Kuwaitis headed to parliamentary polls on Thursday to elect 50 members of the National Assembly...
Guarantee issue important for Iran in nuke talks:...
Tehran [Iran], September 30: The Iranian foreign minister has reaffirmed that the guarantee issue is very important to Iran in...
EU calls on Israel, Palestine to defuse West...
Ramallah [Palestine], September 30: The European Union is exerting efforts to defuse growing tension between Israelis and Palestinians in the...