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Global pandemic treaty to be concluded by 2025, WHO says

Global pandemic treaty to be concluded by 2025,...

Geneva [Switzerland], June 2: Talks aimed at reaching a global agreement on how to better fight pandemics will be concluded...

Republic of Korea's exports continue to grow for 8th straight month in May

Republic of Korea's exports continue to grow for...

Seoul [South Korea], June 2: Republic of Korea's exports extended on-year gains to the eighth straight month in May on...

Boeing execs unlikely to face charges for 737 MAX crashes

Boeing execs unlikely to face charges for 737...

Virginia [US], June 2: Boeing executives are unlikely to be criminally charged over fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 that...

China's Chang'e-6 lands on far side of moon to collect samples

China's Chang'e-6 lands on far side of moon...

Beijing [China], June 2: China's Chang'e-6 probe landed on the far side of the moon on Sunday at 6:23 a.m....

Saudi Arabia begins enforcement of penalties for performing Hajj without a permit

Saudi Arabia begins enforcement of penalties for performing...

Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], June 2: The Public Security of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has started enforcing penalties for those...

WHO's Member States to complete negotiations on a global pandemic agreement within a year

WHO's Member States to complete negotiations on a...

Geneva [Switzerland], June 2: In an historic development, the World Health Assembly, the annual meeting of its 194 member countries,...

Israel rejects lifting restrictions on Spanish consulate

Israel rejects lifting restrictions on Spanish consulate

Jerusalem [Israel], June 1: Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced on Friday his rejection of a request by his Spanish...

First UN aid cargo plane in 3 months lands in Haitian capital

First UN aid cargo plane in 3 months...

United Nations, June 1: The first UN aid cargo flight in three months landed Thursday in the Haitian capital...

At least 7 killed in road accident in west Bolivia

At least 7 killed in road accident in...

La Paz [Bolivia], June 1: At least seven people were killed and several others were injured when a truck collided...

Russia, Ukraine swap prisoners captured in conflict

Russia, Ukraine swap prisoners captured in conflict

Moscow [Russia], June 1: Russia and Ukraine have each exchanged 75 prisoners who were captured during their ongoing conflict, the...

Germans show increasing interest in EU elections: survey

Germans show increasing interest in EU elections: survey

Berlin [Germany], June 1: Germans expressing interests in European politics surged to 61 percent from 38 percent 10 years...

NASA's Webb space telescope finds most distant known galaxy

NASA's Webb space telescope finds most distant known...

Los Angeles [US], June 1: Astronomers using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found what appears to be...

Canada's electricity imports soar due to prolonged dry conditions

Canada's electricity imports soar due to prolonged dry...

Ottawa [Canada], June 1: Canada, generally a net electricity exporter, imported 3.3 million megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity, a jump of...

Malaysia's median monthly wages up 4.9 pct in December 2023

Malaysia's median monthly wages up 4.9 pct in...

Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], June 1: The median monthly wages for the formal sector in Malaysia increased by 4.9 percent year-on-year...

The situation of US-China defense talks

The situation of US-China defense talks

Singapore, June 1: On the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue taking place in Singapore, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin...

World Bank approves 250 mln USD loan to support Ghana's financial stability

World Bank approves 250 mln USD loan to...

Accra [Ghana], June 1: The World Bank Group has approved a 250-million-U.S. dollar loan to support Ghana's financial sector stability...

4 killed, 19 injured in traffic accident in Tunisia

4 killed, 19 injured in traffic accident in...

Tunis [Tunisia], June 1: Four immigrants from sub-Saharan African countries were killed and 19 others injured in a traffic accident...

One South African soldier killed, 13 injured in DRC

One South African soldier killed, 13 injured in...

Goma [DR Congo], June 1: One South African soldier was killed and 13 others injured Thursday in fighting against rebels...

Serial killer died after being attacked by fellow inmates

Serial killer died after being attacked by fellow...

Washington [US], June 1: Serial killer Robert Pickton, nicknamed the 'pig farm killer', died after being attacked by a fellow...

Pointing a gun at his subordinate's head, the British Ambassador was dismissed

Pointing a gun at his subordinate's head, the...

Mexico City [Mexico], June 1: Many media outlets reported that British Ambassador to Mexico Jon Benjamin was dismissed for pointing...

UAE bags 17 diverse awards at 16th edition of GCC Radio & Television Festival

UAE bags 17 diverse awards at 16th edition...

Manama [Bahrain], June 1: The UAE media institutions participating in the 16th edition of the GCC Radio and Television Festival,...

Alef Education increases number of shares allocated to First Tranche in its Initial Public Offering

Alef Education increases number of shares allocated to...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], June 1: Alef Education Holding plc ("Alef Education" or "Company" or "Group") today announced that following the...

UAE Ambassador visits Gulf Radio & Television Festival in Bahrain

UAE Ambassador visits Gulf Radio & Television Festival...

Manama [Bahrain], June 1: Fahd Mohamed Al Amri, the UAE Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain, visited the UAE Pavilion...

Biden proposes Gaza truce, Hamas agrees

Biden proposes Gaza truce, Hamas agrees

New York [US], June 1: U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday laid out what he described as a three-phase Israeli...

After Trump's conviction, the jury is still out on political damage

After Trump's conviction, the jury is still out...

New York [US], June 1: Donald Trump made history on Thursday as the first former U.S. president convicted of a...

China promises aid for Gaza

China promises aid for Gaza

Beijing [China], May 31: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday promised help for the Gaza Strip and spoke in favour...

'Dire conditions': 16,000 displaced people from Rafah crammed into one UN school

'Dire conditions': 16,000 displaced people from Rafah crammed...

Tel Aviv [Israel], May 31: A UN-run school in Deir el-Balah is now housing 16,000 people, as overcrowding worsens due...