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Bulgaria finds 18 migrants dead in truck
Eighteen migrants have been found dead in an abandoned truck, the interior ministry said yesterday, as the Balkan nation struggles with an increase in illicit border crossings.
17 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Turkey earthquake: UN launches $1 billion aid appeal
The money would "allow aid organizations to rapidly scale up vital support," including in the areas of food security, protection, education, water and shelter.
17 February 2023, 08:36 AM
Biden expects to speak to Xi about Chinese 'spy balloon'
Biden says as he expects to talk to Xi Jinping about Chinese 'spy balloon'
17 February 2023, 03:46 AM
Mali junta cracks down on hookahs
The authorities in Mali have begun a crackdown on hookah smoking after giving a grace period to shisha bars to adjust to a ban.
16 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Warm water melts weak spots, say scientists
Scientists studying Antarctica’s vast Thwaites Glacier - nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier - say warm water is seeping into its weak spots, worsening melting caused by rising temperatures, two papers published in Nature journal showed on Wednesday.
16 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Downed Chinese balloon aimed for Hawaii but was blown off course: US official
US officials believe a Chinese balloon that was shot down after crossing the continental United States originally had a trajectory that would have taken it over Guam and Hawaii but was blown off course by prevailing winds, a US official speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Wednesday.
16 February 2023, 03:20 AM
At least 39 dead in Panama migrant bus crash
At least 39 people, most of them undocumented US-bound migrants who had just survived a perilous jungle crossing, died in a bus crash in Panama early Wednesday, officials said.
16 February 2023, 01:38 AM
Rising seas threaten exodus of ‘biblical’ scale
The UN Secretary-General has warned that global warming could force a mass exodus “on a biblical scale” as people flee low-lying communities and called for legal frameworks to be implemented in preparation, especially for refugees.
15 February 2023, 18:00 PM
73 migrants presumed dead: IOM
At least 73 migrants were reported missing and presumed dead following a shipwreck off the Libyan coast on Tuesday, the official
15 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Israeli firm meddled in more than 30 elections: reports
Most of the campaigns -- two-thirds -- were in Africa, claimed Tal Anan.
15 February 2023, 12:34 PM
US aware of India tax dept's raid of BBC offices, but won't comment
The income tax authorities' survey was carried out to investigate issues related to international taxation and transfer pricing of BBC's subsidiary companies, income tax officials said. The BBC had been served notices in the past but was "non-compliant" and had significantly diverted its profits, they alleged.
15 February 2023, 05:34 AM
China accuses US of sending high-altitude balloons into its airspace
Washington strenuously denied Beijing's charges as "false" and insisted it was China alone that has surreptitiously flown spy balloons, as tensions ramped up between the two superpowers
13 February 2023, 14:29 PM
Valentine’s Day or Cow Hug Day?
For centuries, cows have been considered sacred by India’s majority Hindu population, a symbol of both the Earth and the divine.
12 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Suspected jihadists kill 10 Niger soldiers: ministry
At least ten soldiers died in an ambush by a group of “armed terrorists” in southwestern Niger, close to the Mali border, the defence ministry said yesterday.
12 February 2023, 18:00 PM
US fighter jet shot down 'unidentified object' over Canada: Trudeau
Trudeau also said he had spoken with US President Joe Biden about the incident, a day after Biden ordered a shootdown of an unidentified flying object over sea ice near Deadhorse, Alaska
11 February 2023, 23:00 PM
Death toll in Peru mudslides rises to 18
Peruvian authorities on Friday said the death toll from devastating mudslides in the country’s southern and central regions has climbed to 18, including three children.
11 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Chinese balloon-spotting around the world
More than 40 countries across five continents have been targeted by Chinese spy balloons, says the US.
11 February 2023, 10:59 AM
Global chatbot race heats up
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba yesterday said it was working on a rival to ChatGPT, joining a flurry of global tech firms rushing to match the popular AI-powered chatbot.
9 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Norway wealth fund sells its stakes in Adani companies
Since year-end, we have further reduced in Adani companies. We have no exposure left, Christopher Wright, the fund's head of ESG risk monitoring, told a news conference
9 February 2023, 13:37 PM
Putin likely approved MH17 missile supply: investigators
International investigators have said there were "strong indications" that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally approved the supply of the missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014.
9 February 2023, 03:08 AM