World
China and Russia's joint military activities around Japan are of "grave concern" and North Korea poses a greater threat than ever, Tokyo's defence ministry said Friday.In its annual white paper, the ministry outlined its stance on a range of issues, from tensions around Taiwan to t...
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday granted jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's party around 20 seats in parliament reserved for women and minorities, months after national elections marred by allegations of pre-poll rigging.In February polls, candidates loyal to Imran Khan won the larg...
Business & Commerce
The US budget deficit shrank slightly from a year ago in the first nine months of the fiscal year, on higher tax revenues from individuals and corporations, the Treasury Department said Thursday.The budget gap narrowed by $125 billion to $1.3 trillion for the October to June period, down from $1.4 t...
Asian markets mostly rose Friday after a largely negative day on Wall Street despite growing confidence of a US interest rate cut, while the yen saw big swings as speculation swirled that Japan had stepped into forex markets to support the currency.A smaller-than-expected read on the June consumer p...
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At least 63 people were missing in Nepal on Friday after a landslide triggered by heavy monsoon rains swept two buses off a highway and plunged them into a river, authorities said.Dozens of search and rescue personnel were combing the site for survivors of the accident in the central district of Chi...
Israeli strikes killed another 32 people in the Gaza Strip, the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory said Friday, more than nine months into Hamas's war with Israel.Fighting raged from the north to the south of the coastal territory as talks have continued towards reaching a ...
The wings of the world's tiniest birds are a near-invisible blur as they whizz around tourists visiting a private Cuban garden that has become a haven for the declining species.The bee hummingbird, which measures just five to six centimeters (two inches) long, is only found in Cuba. Its losses h...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that any possibility of a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO was "worrying", the official Anadolu news agency reported.Erdogan's comments came as NATO leaders huddled in Washington and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russ...
A Democratic senator on Wednesday called on US President Joe Biden to ditch his reelection bid, capping a brutal day that saw mounting pressure from high-profile actor and donor George Clooney and party heavyweight Nancy Pelosi.As the 81-year-old tried to show his leadership credentials at a NATO su...
F-16 warplanes being sent to Ukraine is a victory for President Volodymyr Zelensky and will help protect against Russian strikes, but they are not a one-stop solution for gaps in the country's air defenses.The United States, the Netherlands and Denmark announced Wednesday that the transfer of th...
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Wednesday his group would accept Palestinian ally Hamas's decision on Gaza truce negotiations, repeating that his movement would stop cross-border attacks on Israel if a ceasefire were reached.Hezbollah has traded almost daily fire with Israeli forces in sup...
Sports,Football
Ollie Watkins struck a stunning injury-time winner as England beat the Netherlands 2-1 on Wednesday to set up a Euro 2024 final showdown with Spain in Berlin on Sunday.It was an incredible finish to an evening that began badly for England, as Xavi Simons gave the Netherlands an early lead in the sem...
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A planet relatively close to Earth could be the first ever detected with a potentially life-sustaining liquid ocean outside our Solar System, according to scientists using the James Webb space telescope.More than 5,000 planets have been discovered outside of the Solar System so far, but only a handf...
Netherlands coach Ronald Koeman admitted his team's 2-1 Euro 2024 semifinal defeat against England on Wednesday was "hard to accept" after a controversial penalty decision and then a last-gasp Ollie Watkins goal left his team floored."I am disappointed about the final result in a ...
The number of ECB staff suffering from burnout has risen steadily in recent years to reach nearly four in ten, according to an internal study seen by AFP Thursday.The number of employees at the European Central Bank reporting burnout has gone up from 29.7 percent in 2016 to 33.2 percent in 2021, bef...
An Iraqi court has sentenced to death a wife of slain Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on charges of detaining Yazidi women, the judiciary said on Wednesday.The wife of the polygamous Baghdadi was brought back to Iraq after being detained in Turkey, judicial sources told AFP under cov...
In front of a small mosque in central Tunisia, women queue at one of their village's last water sources, a pipe meant for crop irrigation, but now a lifeline in the parched area."We just need something to drink," said Ribh Saket, 56, under the punishing summer sun as she placed a jerry...
Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Wednesday that 60 percent of Hamas fighters had been "eliminated or wounded" in the Gaza war since the militant group's October 7 attacks.Gallant reaffirmed in a statement to parliament on the first nine months of the conflict that Israel...
At least 18 people died and 19 were injured when a bus collided with a milk tanker in northern India's Utter Pradesh state early Wednesday, police said."The bus rammed into the tanker from behind killing 18 people and leaving 19 others injured," Zulfiqaar Ali, from the district police ...
Myanmar ethnic minority fighters said on Wednesday they have seized a town along a key trade highway to China following days of clashes with junta troops.The town of Naungcho "is totally ours," General Tar Bhone Kyaw of the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) told AFP.Earlier Wednes...
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