Putin blames failure of US policy

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said the explosion of violence between Israel and the Palestinians showed the US policy had failed in the Middle East and taken no account of the needs of the Palestinians.
11 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Russia trying to besiege eastern town

Russian forces were trying to encircle the eastern frontline Ukrainian town of Avdiivka yesterday, an official said, adding it was being heavily bombed.
10 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Palestinian state ‘most reliable’ solution: Russia

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday that creating a Palestinian state was the “most reliable” solution for peace in Israel and that fighting terrorism alone would not ensure security.
9 October 2023, 18:00 PM

London police step up patrols after Israel-Gaza violence

London police said yesterday that they had boosted patrols across parts of the city following the attacks on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
8 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Major airlines cancel dozens of flights to Tel Aviv

Major airlines have cancelled dozens of flights to Tel Aviv this weekend after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise large-scale attack against Israel.
8 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Nobel winner Mohammadi ‘celebrates’ prize in jail

Rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi “celebrated” her Nobel Peace Prize with fellow detainees in their Tehran prison cell, her family told AFP yesterday.
7 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Spain rescues 262 migrants off Canary Islands

Spanish coast guards rescued 262 migrants in three boats trying to reach the Canary Islands in the early hours of yesterday amid a surge in crossings, just as European leaders were meeting in Spain to look for ways to avoid a new migration crisis.
6 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Dengue will ‘take off’ in US, Europe, Africa this decade

Dengue fever will become a major threat in the southern United States, southern Europe and new parts of Africa this decade, the WHO’s chief scientist said, as warmer temperatures create the conditions for the mosquitoes carrying the infection to spread.
6 October 2023, 18:00 PM

UN Green Climate Fund pledges reach $9.3b

The United Nations’ Green Climate Fund (GCF) has pulled in $9.3 billion in pledges from 25 countries to help vulnerable countries cope with climate change, the fund’s facilitator said yesterday.
5 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Sept was hottest on record

Last month was the hottest September on record by an “extraordinary” margin as the world flirts dangerously with breaching a key warming limit, the EU climate monitor said yesterday.
5 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Norwegian author Jon Fosse wins Nobel in literature

Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable,” the award-giving body said yesterday.
5 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Concern grows over Iranian teen’s metro assault

Western governments on Wednesday expressed concern after an alleged assault by Iranian security forces had reportedly left a teenager in a coma, with Germany’s top diplomat dubbing the incident “intolerable”.
5 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Russia downs 31 Ukrainian drones

Russia said yesterday it had destroyed more than 30 Ukrainian drones in the west overnight, and said its planes had also averted a Ukrainian attempt to penetrate Crimea by sea.
4 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Trio win Nobel in physics for work on electrons

Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for creating ultra-short pulses of light that can give a snapshot of changes within atoms, potentially leading to better detection of disease.
3 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Ukraine downs 29 Russian drones, missile

Ukraine destroyed 29 of 31 drones launched by Russia and one cruise missile, its air force said yesterday, most of them targeting the regions of Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk.
3 October 2023, 18:00 PM

10 killed in Mexico church roof collapse

At least ten people, including three children, were killed and 60 more injured when the roof of a church came crashing down on a baptism in northeastern Mexico on Sunday, authorities said.
2 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Two pioneers of Covid vaccine win Nobel in medicine

Hungarian scientist Katalin Kariko and US colleague Drew Weissman, who met in line for a photocopier before making mRNA molecule discoveries that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines, won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Medicine yesterday.
2 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Ankara bombing: Turkey strikes PKK bases in Iraq

Turkish jets launched air strikes inside Iraqi Kurdistan late Sunday, after a blast earlier the same day injured two police officers near the parliament building in Ankara.
2 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Russian regions hit by Ukrainian drones

Russia was targeted by another wave of Ukrainian drones and shelling yesterday, wounding three people and forcing an airport to divert flights, officials said.
1 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Man dead after whale strikes boat off Australia

A man was killed and another injured after a whale struck a boat off the coast of eastern Australia yesterday, police said.
30 September 2023, 18:00 PM