Israel-Hezbollah conflict intensifies

Beirut [Lebanon], September 26: The military conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon intensified on Wednesday, as Israel announced additional troop mobilizations and...

Rescue work ends after Iranian coal mine explosion killed 49, injured 16

Tehran [Iran], September 26: The bodies of the last missing miners have been recovered after the coal mine explosion in Iran at the weekend.

Remnants of Hurricane John unleash rainfall, three dead

New York [US], September 25: The remnants of Hurricane John soaked a large swath of southwestern Mexico as its trek inland slowed and clean up...

NASA pushes back Crew-9 mission launch

New York [US], September 25: NASA said the launch of its Crew-9 mission with SpaceX has been pushed back to Sept. 28 due to Tropical...

EU, allies tighten Russian oil cap

Brussels [Belgium], September 25: The European Union and 12 partner countries have met in Brussels to discuss the effectiveness of Western sanctions on Russia and...

Trump threatens 100% car tariffs

New York [US], September 25: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he will put a 100% tariff on every car coming into...

Biden seeks to calm Mideast tension

New York [US], September 25: U.S. President Joe Biden addressed world leaders at the United Nations for the final time on Tuesday, declaring that Russia's...

Sri Lanka: Can Anura Dissanayake revive a struggling nation?

Colombo [Sri Lanka], September 25: Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's president on Monday, vowing to change the island nation, which is...

US: Joe Biden meets Muhammad Yunus, both affirm "close partnership" between US,...

New York [US], September 25: Chief Advisor to the Bangladesh interim government, Muhammad Yunus, met US President Joe Biden on Tuesday, on the sidelines of...

Biden delivers last UN General Assembly address, says 'Putin's war has failed'

New York [US], September 25: US President Joe Biden in his final address before the UN General Assembly on Tuesday morning in New York City,...

Dubai Humanitarian airlifts 71.6 MT of critical medical supplies to Gaza

Dubai [UAE], September 25: Under the directives of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, Dubai Humanitarian has...

UN chief says "state of our world is unsustainable," urges global cooperation...

New York [US], September 25: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that the current state of the world is unsustainable while emphasising that the...

Musk says social media platform X will let blocked accounts still see...

London [UK], September 25: Elon Musk has said social media platform X plans to scale back how its blocking tool works, so that blocked accounts...

New train service to link Berlin and Paris in eight hours by...

Berlin [Germany], September 25: A new direct train service is set to link Berlin and Paris in a travel time of around eight hours, Germany's...

Israel, Hezbollah trade fire as thousands flee south Lebanon

Beirut [Lebanon], September 25: Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire a day after the Israeli military launched a wave of air strikes into Lebanon that...

UN chief, Biden agree Lebanon must not 'become another Gaza'

New York [US], September 25: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told world leaders on Tuesday that Lebanon must not "become another Gaza," after Israeli airstrikes...

Erdogan accuses UNSC of failure to stop war in Gaza

Istanbul [Turkey], September 25: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized the UN Security Council of failing to prevent what he called a "genocide" in...

Russian bombing of Kharkiv kills at least 3

Kiev [Ukraine] / Washington [US], September 25: Russian glide bombs killed three people and injured at least 31 others in the eastern Ukrainian city of...

Polls show Harris gaining on Trump

New York [US], September 23: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris leads Republican rival Donald Trump by 5 percentage points in an NBC News poll released...

US to propose ban on Chinese software, hardware in connected vehicles

New York [US], September 23: The U.S. Commerce Department is expected on Monday to propose prohibiting Chinese software and hardware in connected and autonomous vehicles...

Musk's SpaceX to send five uncrewed Starships to Mars

New York [US], September 23: SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starship missions to Mars in two years, CEO Elon Musk has said in...

Harris targets voters with abortion rights bus tour

New York [US], September 23: An intimate crowd gathered around a blue bus and listened intently while Hadley Duvall, an abortion rights advocate and a...

Trump won't run again if he loses, 'that will be it'

New York [US], September 23: Republican Donald Trump said that he will not make a fourth consecutive run for the US presidency if he loses...

Four people dead and 18 hurt in Alabama mass shooting

Birmingham [UK], September 23: At least four people have been killed and 18 injured in a mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, police say.

30 miners killed by gas blast in Iran

Tehran [Iran], September 23: At least 30 miners have been killed and a further 17 injured in a gas explosion in a coal mine in...

UN reform pact passes at New York summit, despite Russian obstruction

New York [US], September 23: Despite Russian efforts to derail the agreement, the international community adopted a UN reform plan at the Summit of the...

Swiss reject referendum on biodiversity and one on pension reform

Geneva [Switzerland], September 23: Swiss voters rejected two referendums on Sunday - one on an expansion of nature conservation and the other on a partial...