Global pandemic treaty to be concluded by 2025, WHO says
Geneva [Switzerland], June 2: Talks aimed at reaching a global agreement on how to better fight pandemics will be concluded by 2025 or earlier if...
Republic of Korea's exports continue to grow for 8th straight month in...
Seoul [South Korea], June 2: Republic of Korea's exports extended on-year gains to the eighth straight month in May on the back of strong shipments...
Boeing execs unlikely to face charges for 737 MAX crashes
Virginia [US], June 2: Boeing executives are unlikely to be criminally charged over fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people as the...
China's Chang'e-6 lands on far side of moon to collect samples
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. Beijing Time, aiming to collect...
Saudi Arabia begins enforcement of penalties for performing Hajj without a permit
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], June 2: The Public Security of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has started enforcing penalties for those violating Hajj regulations and instructions...
WHO's Member States to complete negotiations on a global pandemic agreement within...
Geneva [Switzerland], June 2: In an historic development, the World Health Assembly, the annual meeting of its 194 member countries, today agreed a package of...
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 counterpart Jose Manuel Albares to...
First UN aid cargo plane in 3 months lands in Haitian capital
United Nations, June 1: The first UN aid cargo flight in three months landed Thursday in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, UN humanitarians said...
At least 7 killed in road accident in west Bolivia
La Paz [Bolivia], June 1: At least seven people were killed and several others were injured when a truck collided head-on with a bus on...
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 Russian Defense Ministry said on...
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 ago, according to the Politbarometer...
NASA's Webb space telescope finds most distant known galaxy
Los Angeles [US], June 1: Astronomers using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found what appears to be the most distant known galaxy,...
Canada's electricity imports soar due to prolonged dry conditions
Ottawa [Canada], June 1: Canada, generally a net electricity exporter, imported 3.3 million megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity, a jump of 127.8 percent year over year,...
Malaysia's median monthly wages up 4.9 pct in December 2023
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], June 1: The median monthly wages for the formal sector in Malaysia increased by 4.9 percent year-on-year to 2,900 ringgits (616 U.S....
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 and Chinese Defense Minister Dong...
World Bank approves 250 mln USD loan to support Ghana's financial stability
Accra [Ghana], June 1: The World Bank Group has approved a 250-million-U.S. dollar loan to support Ghana's financial sector stability program over the next five...
4 killed, 19 injured in traffic accident in Tunisia
Tunis [Tunisia], June 1: Four immigrants from sub-Saharan African countries were killed and 19 others injured in a traffic accident in Tunisia's southwestern Gafsa province,...
One South African soldier killed, 13 injured in DRC
Goma [DR Congo], June 1: One South African soldier was killed and 13 others injured Thursday in fighting against rebels on Thursday in the eastern...
Serial killer died after being attacked by fellow inmates
Washington [US], June 1: Serial killer Robert Pickton, nicknamed the 'pig farm killer', died after being attacked by a fellow prisoner, after serving a life...
Pointing a gun at his subordinate's head, the British Ambassador was dismissed
Mexico City [Mexico], June 1: Many media outlets reported that British Ambassador to Mexico Jon Benjamin was dismissed for pointing a gun at an embassy...
UAE bags 17 diverse awards at 16th edition of GCC Radio &...
Manama [Bahrain], June 1: The UAE media institutions participating in the 16th edition of the GCC Radio and Television Festival, which concluded yesterday in Manama,...
Alef Education increases number of shares allocated to First Tranche in its...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], June 1: Alef Education Holding plc ("Alef Education" or "Company" or "Group") today announced that following the approval from the Securities and...
UAE Ambassador visits Gulf Radio & Television Festival in Bahrain
Manama [Bahrain], June 1: Fahd Mohamed Al Amri, the UAE Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain, visited the UAE Pavilion at the Gulf Radio &...
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 proposal for a ceasefire in...
After Trump's conviction, the jury is still out on political damage
New York [US], June 1: Donald Trump made history on Thursday as the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime. But his ultimate judgment...
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 of a peace conference, at...
'Dire conditions': 16,000 displaced people from Rafah crammed into one UN school
Tel Aviv [Israel], May 31: A UN-run school in Deir el-Balah is now housing 16,000 people, as overcrowding worsens due to displacement from Rafah.