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North Korea says recent tests a nuclear warning to South Korea, US
North Korea's recent flurry of missile tests were designed to simulate showering the South with tactical nuclear weapons as a warning after large-scale navy drills by South Korean and US forces, state news agency KCNA said on Monday.
10 October 2022, 02:36 AM
Russia ready to contribute to solution of global food problems
Russia is ready to participate in solving global food problems and to help the poorest countries in particular, President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday in the video address on the occasion of the Agriculture and Processing Industry Workers' Day.
9 October 2022, 07:55 AM
N Korea fires 2 missiles toward sea after US-S Korea drills
North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Sunday, the latest of a recent barrage of weapons tests, a day after it warned the redeployment of a US aircraft carrier near the Korean Peninsula was inflaming regional tensions.
9 October 2022, 04:48 AM
Deal eyes net-zero emissions by 2050
UN aviation agency members on Friday set the year 2050 as their goal for achieving net-zero carbon emissions for air travel -- an industry often criticized for its outsized role in climate change.
8 October 2022, 18:00 PM
3 killed in Crimea bridge blast: Russia
Russian investigators Saturday said three people were killed after a truck exploded on its bridge linking Moscow-annexed Crimea to the mainland, adding that the owner of the vehicle had been identified.
8 October 2022, 06:27 AM
An unusual gift for Putin on his 70th birthday
Russian President Vladimir Putin got an unusual gift for his 70th birthday on Friday: a tractor.
8 October 2022, 06:12 AM
Rights activists from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine awarded Nobel Peace Prize
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize is going to jailed Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties, the award’s judges said Friday.
7 October 2022, 09:32 AM
IS weapons facilitator al-Shammri killed in Syria: US military
The US military said on Thursday a helicopter raid on a government-held village in Syria's northeast targeted and killed Wahid al-Shammri, an Islamic State official who it said facilitated the smuggling of weapons and fighters.
6 October 2022, 19:32 PM
Mass killings of children
A former policeman killed 38 people, including 22 children, in a knife and gun rampage at a daycare centre in Thailand on Thursday, later shooting dead his wife and child at their home, police said.
6 October 2022, 15:35 PM
UN rights council rejects debate on China's treatment of Uyghurs
The UN rights council on Thursday rejected a Western-led motion to hold a debate about alleged human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang region after a UN report found possible crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Muslims.
6 October 2022, 14:54 PM
North Korea continues missile launches as US redeploys carrier
North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters Thursday after the United States redeployed an aircraft carrier near the Korean Peninsula in response to Pyongyang’s previous launch of a nuclear-capable missile over Japan.
6 October 2022, 02:47 AM
15 dead as 2 migrant boats sink in Greek waters
At least 15 people have died as two boats carrying migrants sank in Greek waters late Wednesday, and rescuers were looking for dozens still missing, authorities said early Thursday.
6 October 2022, 02:39 AM
Climate change: Europe must show ‘far greater ambition’
Europe should show “far greater ambition” on climate change because its overall greenhouse gas emissions are still rising, and so countries must embrace recycling, tighten air quality and spend more on the environment, a UN report said yesterday.
5 October 2022, 18:00 PM
Trio win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless yesterday won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering reactions that let molecules snap together to create new compounds and that offer insight into cell biology.
5 October 2022, 18:00 PM
“Goal to eradicate extreme global poverty by 2030 likely remains out-of-reach”
Covid-19 has dealt the "biggest setback" to global poverty reduction efforts in decades, and the World Bank warned Wednesday that the goal to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 likely remains out-of-reach.
5 October 2022, 14:23 PM
2 Americans, a Dane win 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry
The Nobel Chemistry Prize was on Wednesday awarded to a trio of chemists from the US and Denmark who laid the foundation for a more functional form of chemistry.
5 October 2022, 10:10 AM
South Korean missile fails after successful North Korean rocket test
A malfunctioning South Korean ballistic missile blew up as it plowed into the ground Wednesday during a live-fire drill with the United States that was a reprisal for North Korea’s successful launch a day earlier of a weapon that flew over Japan and has the range to strike the US territory of Guam.
5 October 2022, 03:00 AM
‘No-one will escape’ crisis
Warning “no-one will escape” a worsening crisis, DR Congo has led calls for a surge in funding to brake global heating and fight its impacts at the start of pre-COP27 climate talks in Kinshasa.
4 October 2022, 18:00 PM
Solomons says it will not ‘choose sides’ between US, China
Solomon Islands said yesterday it had objected to the first draft of a US-Pacific partnership declaration because it was “not comfortable” with some indirect references to China.
4 October 2022, 18:00 PM
At least 15 dead in new Ecuador prison riot
At least 15 prisoners died Monday in the latest unrest inside Ecuador’s prison system, officials in the South American country reported.
4 October 2022, 18:00 PM