Italian scientists bet on octopus to fight crab invasion
AFP, Cesenatico
21 August 2026 Europe
Russian ballistic missiles kill 16 in Ukraine’s Kyiv
Reuters, Kyiv
21 August 2026 World
‘US will impose toughest sanctions in history on Iran’
Reuters, Washington/Dubai
21 August 2026 World
Nasa satellite rescue mission fails
AFP, Washington
21 August 2026 World
AIRBASE BOMBING / Israel, Turkey step up warnings over Syria
Reuters, Jerusalem
21 August 2026 World
India, Japan agree to bolster defence ties
AFP, New Delhi
21 August 2026 World
US India envoy’s Kashmir remarks rile Pakistan
AFP, Islamabad
21 August 2026 World

Pakistan ex-PM Imran’s judicial remand extended for two weeks: lawyer

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan's jail detention related to charges of leaking state secrets was extended for another two weeks, his lawyer said on Wednesday
13 September 2023

North Korea's Kim tells Putin deepening ties is 'number one priority'

North Korea's leader vowed closer ties with Moscow on Wednesday, saying his isolated country would "always be with Russia" as President Vladimir Putin hosted Kim Jong Un at a Far East spaceport.
13 September 2023

Libya flood: Death toll rises to 4,000

Libya was reeling Wednesday from a massive flood that left nearly 4,000 dead and thousands more missing, wreaking havoc in the eastern city of Derna where bodies wrapped in blankets lined the ravaged streets
13 September 2023

Putin, Kim begin talks at Russia's Vostochny spaceport

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday began talks at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East after touring space rocket assembly and launch facilities at the spaceport
13 September 2023

More than 330m children still in extreme poverty: Unicef

The Covid-19 pandemic caused a sharp slowdown in the fight to end child poverty, with 333 million children still living in extreme poverty, according to a report published Wednesday
13 September 2023

North Korea fires two ballistic missiles as Kim visits Russia

North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles, the South Korean military said Wednesday, with leader Kim Jong Un in Russia ahead of a summit with President Vladimir Putin
13 September 2023

Dozens dead in Vietnam apartment block fire

Dozens of people have been killed after a huge fire at an apartment block in Vietnamese capital Hanoi, state media said Wednesday
13 September 2023

Colombia deadliest country for green activists in 2022: report

Environmental activist murders doubled in Colombia last year, making it the most dangerous country in the world for those trying to protect the planet, a watchdog said Tuesday
13 September 2023

G20 summit: US, China call it ‘success’

Days after the conclusion of the G20 Summit in New Delhi, the United States on Monday affirmed that the global meet was a “success” despite the absence of the Chinese and Russian presidents and the joint declaration not explicitly condemning Russia’s role in the ongoing war in Ukraine.
12 September 2023

Putin signals he expects long war in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday indicated he was bracing for a long war in Ukraine, saying that Kyiv could use any ceasefire to rearm and that Washington would continue to see Russia as an enemy no matter who won the 2024 US election.
12 September 2023

Survivors struggle in shelters

Many survivors of Morocco’s most powerful earthquake in over a century were struggling in makeshift shelters yesterday after a fourth night outside, with rescuers yet to reach remote mountain villages which suffered some of the worst devastation.
12 September 2023

It could push 24m to brink of famine: WFP

The World Food Programme said yesterday that shrinking funding was forcing it to drastically slash rations in many operations, warning that 24 million more people risked being pushed to the brink of starvation.
12 September 2023

Philippines Tax Case: Nobel laureate Maria Ressa acquitted

Philippines Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and her news site Rappler were acquitted of tax fraud by a trial court yesterday, in another legal victory for the embattled journalist and for press freedom in the Southeast Asian country.
12 September 2023

US-Mexico border deadliest land route: IOM

The Mexico-United States border was the world’s most dangerous land route for migrants in 2022, with nearly 700 dying or going missing, the United Nations migration agency said yesterday.
12 September 2023

Nawaz to return to Pakistan on Oct 21: Shehbaz

PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif is set to return to Pakistan on October 21, ending his four-year exile in the UK, his brother and party president Shehbaz Sharif confirmed yesterday.
12 September 2023

Trump seeks disqualification of US judge

Former US President Donald Trump filed a motion on Monday seeking to disqualify US District Judge Tanya Chutkan from presiding over one of the criminal cases charging him with trying to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss.
12 September 2023

UN maps out decarbonisation of construction sector

The construction sector -- the most polluting and difficult to decarbonise -- must build less, use more sustainable materials and clean up conventional ones to slash its emissions, the United Nations said yesterday.
12 September 2023

US signs off on transfer of funds to Iran

The United States confirmed Monday it had signed off on the transfer of $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds from South Korea, paving the way for five US citizens to leave Tehran.
12 September 2023

A third of population still without internet: UN

A third of the world’s population is still without access to the internet, even though the number of people connected has never been so high, according to the latest UN statistics published yesterday.
12 September 2023

US takes on Google in landmark antitrust trial

A landmark case pitting the US government against Google over the dominance of the company’s world-dominating search engine began in a Washington courtroom yesterday.
12 September 2023