MANILA, Apr 2Hundreds of schools in the Philippines, including dozens in the capital Manila, suspended in-person classes on Tuesday due to dangerous levels of heat, education officials said.The country's heat index measures what a temperature feels like, ..

Male, Mar 22 : Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has struck a reconciliatory tone after his anti-India rhetoric, saying India will continue to remain his country's “closest ally” as he sought a debt relief from New Delhi. The Maldives owed app..

Brussels, Feb 12The world just experienced its hottest January on record, continuing a run of exceptional heat fuelled by climate change, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday. Last month surpassed the previous warm..

Gaza City, Feb 10 : Six-year-old Hind Rajab pleaded to be rescued, after her family's car came under fire in war-ravaged Gaza City, leaving her alone, frightened and injured, surrounded by the bodies of her dead relatives."I am so scared," she had said in..

Karachi, Feb 7At least 25 people were killed and 42 others injured on Wednesday in two devastating bomb blasts targeting election offices in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, a day before the general elections in the coup-prone country.In the first..

Dhaka, Feb 5At least 95 Myanmar border guards, some of them wounded, have fled to Bangladesh over the last few days as fighting intensifies between rebel forces in Myanmar and the junta regime, officials in Bangladesh said on Monday.Since mounting a coup ..

Islamabad, Jan 31Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan and his wife were sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in jail after being found guilty of graft in a case involving gifts he received while premier.The verdict, a week before national elections, comes..

Naypyidaw, Jan 30 Four members of the Myanmar security services including a Brigadier General were shot dead by sniper fire on Monday as their helicopter prepared to land, a military source told AFP.Brigadier General Aye Min Naung, his personal security o..

Jenin, Jan 30Israeli undercover agents, some disguised as medical staff, raided a West Bank hospital Tuesday and shot dead three Palestinian militants, in the first such operation in eight years.An AFP photographer saw a bullet hole on a pillow covered in..

Kyiv, Jan 28Ukraine's SBU security service said on Saturday it had uncovered a corruption scheme in the purchase of arms by the country's military totalling the equivalent of about $40 million.The announcement of mass procurement fraud, confirmed by Ukrai..

GAZA, Jan 14Israel will pursue its war against Hamas until victory and will not be stopped by anyone, including the world court, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a defiant speech on Saturday, as the fighting in Gaza approached the 100-day mark.Ne..

OSR/Agencies (AFP)IMPHAL/TAMU, Jan 7 : At least 15 people, including children, have been killed in an air strike on a village in northwestern Myanmar on the Indo (Manipur)-Myanmar border, local media said Sunday.The country has been engulfed by increasing..

Geneva, Dec 30World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday he was "very concerned" about the growing threat of infectious diseases in the Gaza Strip."As people continue to be massively displaced across the south of Gaza, with som..

BUENOS AIRES, Dec 29 : Argentine President Javier Milei has sent letters to BRICS leaders to formalize his decision to reject an invitation to join the grouping of major emerging economies, the presidency said Friday.The bloc -- made up of Brazil, Russia,..

CAIRO/GAZA, Dec 19Israel kept pounding the shattered Gaza Strip on Tuesday while Yemen’s pro-Palestinian Houthi movement vowed to defy a U.S.-led naval mission and keep hitting Israeli targets in the Red Sea.Israel’s campaign to eradicate Hama..

Kuwait, Dec 16: The emir of oil-rich Kuwait, Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, died on Saturday, the royal court said, after three years in power. He was 86."With great sadness and sorrow, we mourn... the death of Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Emir of the..

BANGKOK, Dec 12 Myanmar has become the world's largest source of opium, thanks to domestic instability and a decline in cultivation in Afghanistan, the United Nations said in a report on Tuesday.The 95% decline in opium cultivation in Afghanistan after a ..

GAZA/CAIRO, Dec 10Israeli tanks battled their way to the centre of Khan Younis on Sunday in a major new push into the heart of the main city in the southern Gaza Strip.Residents said tanks had reached the main north-south road through the middle of Khan Y..

PARIS, Dec 8 : Rich countries need to stop using coal by 2030 and oil and gas by 2040, with poorer nations following a decade behind, to give the world a chance of limiting warming to 1.5C, climate scientists told the UN Friday.In a note to the UN Secreta..

MOSCOW, Dec 7 : Russian lawmakers on Thursday set the date of the country’s 2024 presidential election for March 17, moving Vladimir Putin a step closer to a fifth term in office.Members of the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parli..

NEW DELHI, Nov 14 Anti-junta fighters in Myanmar's Chin state were aiming to gain control of part of a porous border with India, after tasting early success with the takeover of two military outposts on the remote mountainous frontier, a senior rebel comm..

Beijing, Nov 13Chinese experts have sounded an alert about the relapse of COVID-19 infections during the current winter season and asked elderly and vulnerable populations to get vaccinated.The Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Chinese CD..

Tel Aviv, Nov 11Who will govern Gaza when Israel's military offensive against Hamas ends? After five weeks of fighting, the answer remains shrouded in confusion.Hamas, a Palestinian group with an armed wing, has governed the coastal territory of about 2.4..

NEPALGUNJ, Nov 4 At least 157 people were killed in an overnight earth-quake that struck a remote pocket of Nepal, officials said Saturday, as security forces rushed to assist with rescue efforts.The 6.4 magnitude quake hit isolated western districts of t..

Jerusalem, Oct 7 Over 40 Israelis have been killed and more than 700 injured in the Hamas offen-sive that began earlier on Saturday. Besides, more than 50 Israelis have been repor-tedly held hostage by the militant group.The group published footage showin..