At least 22 dead after school building collapse in central Nigeria
Lagos [Nigeria], July 13: At least 22 people have died in central Nigeria after a school building collapsed as lessons were taking place, local authorities...
Over 41% of news teams employs AI to create illustrative art, 39%...
Geneva [Switzerland], July 13: AI is enhancing content creation, distribution and consumption as it generates scripts, movies, music, images, captions, animations and virtual reality content,...
EU invests €126.9 million into 26 new projects to protect and restore...
Brussels [Belgium], July 13: European Commission announced today a €126.9 million investment in 26 new projects contributing to the EU Mission 'Restore our Ocean and...
UNRWA is a backbone of humanitarian operations in Gaza: UN chief
New York [US], July 13: Without the necessary support and financing to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near...
After long break, Ukraine targets Russian capital in overnight drone attack
Moscow [Russia], July 12: For the first time in weeks, the Russian capital was targeted in an overnight Ukrainian drone attack.
Taiwan reports record 66 Chinese warplanes in its airspace in one day
Taipei [Taiwan], July 12: Taiwan's Defence Ministry on Thursday said it registered 66 Chinese warplanes operating around the self-governing island within 24 hours, the highest...
Mali's military government to allow political parties to resume work
Bamako [Mali], July 12: Mali's transitional military government said on Thursday that it would allow political parties to resume operations after a three-month suspension.
French president calls on mainstream parties to form coalition government
Paris [France], July 12: French President Emmanuel Macron has urged the country's mainstream parties to form a coalition government following last week's parliamentary elections which...
US cruise missiles to return to Germany, angering Moscow
New York [US], July 12: Long-range US missiles are to be deployed periodically in Germany from 2026 for the first time since the Cold War,...
Rival Bolivian governing party factions in street brawl
La Paz [Bolivia], July 12: Rival factions of the governing party in Bolivia have clashed in the city of La Paz.
US provides $100mn in aid to Palestine, 227kg bombs to Israel
Washington [US], July 12: The United States has announced it's providing $100mn in additional aid for Palestinians in the war-battered Gaza Strip and occupied West...
Biden complicit in Israeli 'war crimes': Erdogan
Ankara [Turkey], July 12: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said US President Joe Biden and his administration are complicit in Israeli "war crimes" and...
French firefighters rush to put out blaze at Rouen cathedral
Paris [France], July 12: The spire of a medieval cathedral in the city of Rouen in northern France is mostly clear of smoke after catching...
Albanian anti-government protesters hurl petrol bombs and scuffle with police
Tirana [Albania], July 12: Opposition protesters pelted Albania's government building and a mayor's office with petrol bombs late on Thursday, accusing Prime Minister Edi Rama...
Biden mistakenly refers to Zelenskiy as Putin before correcting himself
Washington [US], July 12: U.S. President Joe Biden today mistakenly referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as Russian President Vladimir Putin before correcting himself at...
Kenyan president sacks cabinet, bowing to pressure from protests
Nairobi [Kenya], July 12: Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday fired his entire cabinet apart from the foreign minister, bowing to pressure from nationwide protests...
Pfizer moves forward with once-daily weight-loss pill
Washington [US], July 12: Pfizer (PFE.N), opens new tab plans to move a reworked, once-a-day version of its weight-loss pill danuglipron into clinical trials later...
Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Belgorod region injures five children, governor says
Kyiv [Ukraine], July 12: A Ukrainian drone strike on a courtyard outside a multi-storey apartment block on a border town in southern Russia's Belgorod region...
Israel bombards Gaza City in one of the fiercest weeks of war,...
Tel Aviv [Israel], July 12: Israel rained bombs on Gaza City during a week that residents described as comparable to the fiercest battle of the...
First Israeli military report on Oct. 7 attack finds army failed to...
Tel Aviv [Israel], July 12: The Israeli military published on Thursday the findings of a first probe into its own security failings during the devastating...
Desperate for food, Gazans turn to mulberry leaves to survive
Tel Aviv [Israel], July 12: Struggling through rubble and buildings shattered by Gaza's war, Ahmed Al-Shanbari and three of his sons risk their lives to...
NATO to back Ukraine as Biden faces growing pressure
Washington [US], July 12: Ukraine on Thursday urged NATO allies to lift restrictions on its use of long-range weapons against targets in Russia, saying that...
Speaker of Indonesian House of Representatives receives Chairman of Muslim Council of...
Jakarta [ Indonesia], July 12: Puan Maharani, Speaker of Indonesia's House of Representatives, received His Eminence Prof. Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar and...
Saudi Foreign Minister receives French President's Advisor for Middle East and North...
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], July 12: Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, received today at the...
Backers of Arizona abortion rights amendment sue over language in voter pamphlet
Arizona [US], July 11: Supporters of a ballot measure that would amend Arizona's constitution to establish a right to abortion sued Republican lawmakers on Wednesday...
Registered Afghan refugees can stay another year, says Pakistan
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 11: Pakistan on Wednesday extended for a year the stay of Afghan refugees who live in the country legally amid the ongoing...
We will continue fighting until needed, says Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah
Beirut [Lebanon], July 11: In a televised address Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the armed Lebanese group Hezbollah has said that Israel has achieved "no...