AFP :A strong earthquake hit the southern Philippines on Sunday, though there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, the US Geological Survey and local officials said.The 6.0-magnitude quake struck the town of...
AFP :Pope Francis has broken with Catholic tradition to appoint a woman as an undersecretary of the synod of bishops, the first to hold the post with voting rights in a body that studies...
AFP :An escaped tiger that killed a keeper at a zoo on Borneo island has been captured alive after a day on the loose, police said. The white Bengal tiger was found wandering in...
Al Jazeera :The COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford appeared to offer only limited protection against mild disease caused by the South African variant of the coronavirus, a spokesman for...
New York Times :UAE spies hacked devices belonging to Qatar’s royal family and intercepted private communications between then-US First Lady Michelle Obama and Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, according to a new book...
AFP :The key Palestinian factions – Fatah, which controls the West Bank, and Gaza’s Hamas Islamists – plan to meet in Cairo this week to tackle issues that could threaten long-awaited Palestinian elections.Technical, legal...
Reuters :A US warship has sailed near the Chinese-controlled Paracel Islands in the disputed South China Sea in a freedom of navigation operation, the US Navy said, the first such mission under President Joe...
CNN:A former secretary of a Nazi camp has been charged with the murders of 10,000 people, German prosecutors said on Friday.She worked at the Stutthof camp near Gdansk in Poland, where some 65,000 inmates...
AFP :Denmark says it has approved plans to build an artificial island in the North Sea that could generate wind power for at least three million households.Parliament in June adopted a political environmental framework...
Al Jazeera :The United Arab Emirates drastically reduced its funding to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in 2020, the year it signed a United States-brokered normalisation accord with Israel that was heavily...
Reuters :New Zealand health authorities said on Saturday they were investigating a new community coronavirus infection, the fourth in two weeks among people who completed mandatory isolation at an Auckland quarantine facility for returned...
AFP :Libyan delegates at UN-led talks outside Geneva on Friday made the surprise choice of Abdul Hamid Dbeibah as prime minister of a transitional unity government to take the war-ravaged country through to elections...
