AFP : Heavy rains lashed Sri Lanka on Friday, hampering a major clean-up operation after severe flooding and landslides last week killed nearly 500 people,...
Agencies : Finland, ranked the world’s happiest nation for eight years and traditionally one of the European Union’s most fiscally disciplined countries, has just received...
Al Jazeera : A university in Hong Kong has suspended the operations of its student union after messages were posted on campus expressing condolences and...
Agencies : Pakistan will temporarily allow UN relief supplies into Afghanistan, officials said Thursday, in the first partial border opening since deadly clashes erupted between...
Agencies : A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck China’s Xinjiang region on Thursday afternoon, shaking areas near Akqi County close to the Kyrgyzstan border, according to regional...
NN ONLINE: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s pledge to “work, work, work, work and work” — a line she used after winning the leadership...
AP : Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit India this week for a summit aimed at strengthening economic, defense and energy cooperation, a trip that...
Reuters : Taiwan expressed thanks and China was upset on Wednesday after President Donald Trump signed into law legislation requiring the US State Department to...
Agencies : The US government has halted immigration applications for citizens from 19 nations including Afghanistan, Yemen and Haiti, an official memorandum said Tuesday, deepening...
Reuters : Imran Khan, Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister, is in good physical health but facing isolation and psychological strain, his sister said on Tuesday,...
BBC : More than 200,000 cases of acute respiratory illnesses were recorded in six state-run hospitals in Delhi between 2022 and 2024 as the Indian...
Agencies : A Doctors Without Borders official has pleaded for countries to open their doors to tens of thousands of Gazans in dire need of...
