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Top Chinese diplomat proposes talks with Japan, S Korea
Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi proposed high-level talks between China, Japan and South Korea in a meeting with the Japanese foreign minister in Indonesia this month, Kyodo news agency reported yesterday.
23 July 2023, 18:00 PM
14 killed in Pakistan
At least 14 people were killed in Pakistan rains and landslide yesterday.
23 July 2023, 18:00 PM
5 dead in eastern China heavy rains
Five people died and two were missing, after heavy rain burst a river bank in a village near eastern China’s Hangzhou city on Saturday, flooding houses and carrying away people and their belongings, state media reported.
23 July 2023, 18:00 PM
30 killed in Afghanistan floods
At least 30 people have been killed in Afghanistan after floods caused by a heavy monsoon rain spell washed away homes, a disaster ministry official said yesterday.
23 July 2023, 18:00 PM
Greek wildfires prompt biggest evacuation
High winds forecast for yesterday were expected to hamper firefighters’ battle to contain a blaze burning out of control on the Greek island of Rhodes, sparking the biggest ever fire evacuation in Greece.
23 July 2023, 18:00 PM
Twitter’s bird could be replaced
Twitter owner Elon Musk hinted late Saturday night that he may ditch the social media network’s blue cartoon bird branding -- and soon -- for an edgier logo based on an “everything app” he has long alluded to called only X.
23 July 2023, 18:00 PM
Ukraine regained 50 pc of Russia-seized-territory
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that while Ukraine has reconquered half the territory that Russia initially seized in its invasion, Kyiv faced a “a very hard fight” to win back more.
23 July 2023, 18:00 PM
Netanyahu gets pacemaker ahead of vote on judicial reforms
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underwent surgery to implant a pacemaker on Sunday ahead of a debate in parliament on a controversial judicial overhaul bill that has brought tens of thousands of protesters to the streets.
23 July 2023, 07:20 AM
Thousands flee Greek island fires as southern US swelters
Around 30,000 people were moved to safety on the Greek island of Rhodes where a wildfire burned on Saturday, while people in the southern United States struggled under a record-breaking heatwave
23 July 2023, 01:52 AM
Brazil restricts gun ownership
Brazil’s leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday signed a decree to limit civilian access to firearms, seeking to undo a boom of gun ownership under his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.
22 July 2023, 18:00 PM
Algeria applies to join BRICS
Algeria has applied to join the BRICS group and submitted a request to become a shareholder member of BRICS Bank with an amount of USD 1.5 billion, Ennahar TV quoted Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune as saying.
22 July 2023, 18:00 PM
India landslide death toll now 26
The death toll from a landslide in India’s western state of Maharashtra rose to 26 yesterday, a disaster relief official said, with dozens still feared trapped under layers of mud and slush two days after the incident.
22 July 2023, 18:00 PM
Rockets in Darfur kill 16 civilians
At least 16 civilians have been killed by rocket fire that hit their houses in war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region, a local lawyers’ union said yesterday.
22 July 2023, 18:00 PM
World’s biggest permafrost crater thaws as planet warms
Stunning drone footage has revealed details of the Batagaika crater, a one kilometre long gash in Russia’s Far East that forms the world’s biggest permafrost crater.
22 July 2023, 18:00 PM
‘World in unchartered territory’
With record-breaking heatwaves stretching across the northern hemisphere and climate-related natural disasters sweeping across the globe, scientists have warned that the world has entered “an uncharted territory” due to accelerating global warming.
22 July 2023, 18:00 PM
Malaysia halts music festival after same-sex kiss by The 1975 band
Malaysia's government halted a music festival in the capital Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, a day after the frontman of British pop rock band The 1975 kissed a male bandmate onstage and criticised the country's anti-LGBT laws
22 July 2023, 08:50 AM
Tony Bennett, last of classic American crooners, dead at 96
Tony Bennett, the last in a generation of classic American crooners whose ceaselessly cheery spirit bridged generations to make him a hitmaker across seven decades, died Friday in New York. He was 96
22 July 2023, 07:33 AM
North Korea fires 'several cruise missiles' into sea
North Korea fired "several cruise missiles" into the Yellow Sea between China and the Korean peninsula on Saturday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said
22 July 2023, 06:37 AM
Gambia finds Indian cough syrups caused 70 infant deaths
A government taskforce in The Gambia announced Friday that four cough syrups imported from India were responsible for the deaths of at least 70 children from kidney failure last year
22 July 2023, 02:25 AM
Zelensky sacks ambassador to UK after criticism
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday dismissed the country's ambassador to the United Kingdom, Vadym Prystaiko, after he criticised the president's response to a row over British military aid.
21 July 2023, 09:20 AM