Jakarta: Indonesia imported 3.85 million tons of rice from January to November this year, marking a 62 percent increase compared to the same period la...
Saint Denis de la Reunion: Rescuers raced against time Monday to reach survivors after a powerful cyclone hit the French Indian Ocean territory of May...
Brussels, Belgium: EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Monday the bloc s envoy to Syria was going to Damascus to talk to the new Islamist led lea...
Copenhagen: Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, maker of diabetes and weight loss treatments Ozempic and Wegovy, said Monday it was investing 8....
Taipei: Taiwan has received 38 advanced Abrams battle tanks from the United States, the defence ministry said Monday, reportedly the island s first ne...
Seoul: South Korea s opposition leader urged a top court on Sunday to swiftly formalise the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol and ease the suffe...
Magaracik, Turkiye: Finally home in Turkiye, Mehmet Erturk cannot eat the bread his wife has made him. After 20 years jailed in Syria, half his teeth...
Bras lia: Brazilian authorities on Saturday arrested Braga Netto, a former defense minister and close ally of ex president Jair Bolsonaro as part of a...
Doha: Qatar National Bank (QNB) said that economic growth in Japan is set for a recovery next year, on the back of real income growth boosting consump...
Biligoni, Chad: Through a cloud of dust in the late afternoon sunshine, Chadian jockeys, some riding bareback, raced their sleek, muscular steeds arou...
Washington: President elect Donald Trump announced Friday he would work to end the inconvenient custom of moving clocks forward one hour every sprin...
Sarmada, Syria: Crowds of visitors wander brilliantly lit shopping aisles, stunned by the abundance of goods on offer in the heart of the former rebel...
Tbilisi: Georgia s ruling party is set to appoint a far right loyalist as president on Saturday in a controversial election process, amid a deepening...
Seoul: South Korean lawmakers on Saturday impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid, with the opposition declaring a victory...
Washington: The United States and the People s Republic of China on Friday signed a protocol to amend the US China Science and Technology Agreement (S...
New York: US aerospace firm Boeing will invest $1 billion to ramp up production of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft in South Carolina, the company said in...
Manila: Human induced climate change fuelled a rare string of back to back typhoons that battered the Philippines this year and boosted the chances of...
New York: A life changing, life altering back injury may have helped drive the man charged with gunning down a top health insurance CEO in the middl...
New York: Time Magazine on Thursday named US President elect DonaldTrumpits person of the year, marking the second time he has won the accolade in a...
Singapore: Indian teen prodigy Gukesh Gommaraju became the world s youngest undisputed world chess champion Thursday after beating China s Ding Liren...
Geneva: The World Health Organization voiced concern Thursday at recent attacks that took placein Sudan s war ravaged Darfur region, which it said had...
Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories: Gaza s civil defence agency reported that Israeli air strikes on Thursday killed at least 33 people, including 12...
Washington: The United States offered a $10 million reward on Tuesday for information leading to the arrest of a Chinese man and co conspirators wante...
Almaty, Kazakhstan: Kazakhstan on Wednesday signalled that it could reverse a controversial change in time zone, a rare concession to public anger in...
Frankfurt, Germany: German online fashion retailer Zalando said Wednesday it would acquire local rival About You for 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion)...
Paris: Donald Trump said solving the Ukraine crisis would be his top priority once he assumes office next month, describing the Middle East as a less...
Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Monday the opening of an additional border crossing in the southern Turkiye, to speed up t...
Seoul: South Korean police said Wednesday that security guards were blocking a special investigative team from raiding the main building of President...
Washington: The United States announced on Tuesday that it has disbursed a $20 billion loan for Ukraine backed by the interest earned on frozen Russia...
Los Angeles, United States: A wind fanned wildfire quickly spread early on Tuesday in Malibu, where many Hollywood elites reside in the western US sta...
Seoul: South Korean authorities banned more top officials from leaving the country Tuesday, in the wake of President Yoon Suk Yeol s bungled attempt t...
Accra: Ghana s opposition leader John Mahama on Monday officially won the country s election, easily defeating the ruling party candidate after voters...
Amman: A Jordanian man has returned to his home country after spending 38 years in Syrian jails, an official said on Tuesday, after the fall of presid...
Port au Prince: Nearly 200 people in Haiti were killed in brutal weekend violence reportedly orchestrated against voodoo practitioners, with the gover...
New York: Wall Street stocks treaded water early Monday, consolidating the prior week s gains ahead of key inflation data and a European Central Bank...
Singapore: DefendingchampionDingLiren bounced back strongly Monday to beat his teenage challenger in the 12th game and level the score in the homestre...
Berlin: Germany has suspended decisions on asylum requests from Syrians amid the unclear situation in the war torn country after the ouster of Presi...
Rome: Seven people were injured, two of them seriously, after a fire broke out at a fuel depot run by Italian energy company Eni in Tuscany Monday, a...
Washington: US President Joe Biden on Sunday said deposed Syrian leader Bashar Al Assad should be held accountable but called the nation s political...
Singapore: Indian teenage challenger Gukesh Dommaraju beat China s Ding Liren in the eleventh game of their world championship match Sunday, taking a...
Accra: Ghana s former president John Dramani Mahama won a historic comeback election victory on Sunday after voters appeared to punish the ruling New...
Washington: The United States Department of Defense (Pentagon) has asserted that it will maintain its presence in eastern Syria to ensure defeating IS...
The Hague: At least one person has died after an explosion and fire caused a building to collapse in The Hague, the city s mayor said Saturday, with l...
Seoul: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol escaped impeachment Saturday over his brief declaration of martial law, after lawmakers from his ruling pa...