UAE President honours 11 winners of Zayed Sustainability Prize at COP28
Dubai [UAE], December 2: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan today honoured the winners of the Zayed Sustainability Prize in a ceremony...
OFID €50 million loan supports SMEs and green energy in West Africa
Vienna [Austria], December 2: The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) has signed a €50 million loan with the West African Development Bank (BOAD) to...
Saudi Space Agency, US Sierra Space sign MoU to develop national capabilities...
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], December 2: The Saudi Space Agency (SSA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sierra Space, a US leading company in the...
Moscow court fines Apple over refusal to localize Russian user data
Moscow [Russia], December 1: The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined Apple Inc. 12 million rubles (about 133,370 U.S. dollars) for repeatedly refusing to store...
Canada launches three-digit suicide crisis helpline
Ottawa [Canada], December 1: The Canadian government on Thursday launched 988, a new three-digit suicide crisis helpline to provide suicide prevention support.
Japan's jobless rate falls to 2.5 pct in October
Tokyo [Japan], December 1: Japan's unemployment rate in October fell 0.1 percentage points from the previous month to 2.5 percent, government data showed on Friday.
At least 13 dead in Kazakhstan hostel fire
Moscow [Russia], December 1: At least 13 people have died in a hostel fire in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, according to authorities.
German terror group leader gets 6 years in prison
Stuttgart [Germany], December 1: The ringleader of a far-right German terrorist group that allegedly plotted violent attacks on Muslims in hopes of provoking a civil...
Biden welcomes release of more hostages
Washington [US], December 1: US President Joe Biden has welcomed the release of hostages by Hamas, including an American woman.
Guterres calls for true humanitarian truce
Gaza Strip [Palestine], December 1: An extension of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza war is not enough, according to UN Secretary...
Spanish PM: Recognizing Palestine only solution ending Middle East crisis
Madrid [Spain], December 1: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez affirmed Thursday that recognizing the State of Palestine was the only solution to end the crisis...
Divisive US envoy Henry Kissinger dies aged 100
Washington [US], December 1: Henry Kissinger, the relentlessly ambitious US diplomat whose unapologetic promotion of raw American power helped shape the post-World War II world,...
Zelensky visits front as Russia ups attacks
Kyiv [Ukraine], December 1: Ukrainian President VolodymyrZelensky on Thursday visited a frontline command post in eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces have been stepping up attacks...
Nepal registers first same-sex marriage; 'historic', say activists
Kathmandu [Nepal], December 1: Local authorities in a village in Nepal registered the Himalayan nation's first same-sex marriage, officials and activists said, five months after...
COP28 kicks off with climate disaster fund victory
Dubai [UAE], December 1: The U.N. climate summit clinched an early victory Thursday, with delegates adopting a new fund to help poor nations cope with...
Hamas hands over two female hostages, others expected after truce extended
Gaza Strip [Palestine], December 1: Hamas handed two female hostages to the Red Cross in Gaza City's central Palestine Square and further hostages are expected...
World at risk of losing malaria fight as cases rise, report says
Geneva [Switzerland], December 1: The world is in danger of losing the fight against malaria, as cases of the disease rose by around 5 million...
UN peacekeepers try to stay safe amid Lebanon-Israel border flare-ups
Beirut [Lebanon], December 1: While trying to fulfil their mandate to keep the peace, U.N. soldiers deployed along Lebanon's border with Israel during the worst...
Gaza conflict: Middle East tourism struggles for survival
Cairo [Egypt], December 1: Moustafa Hassan is slowly starting to worry.
UAE, a pioneer in renewable energy: President of Palau
Dubai [UAE], December 1:SurangelWhipps Jr., President of Palau, said the UAE is a trailblazer in the field of renewable energy, especially solar energy.
US affirms commitment to finalising Loss and Damage Fund discussions at COP28
Dubai [UAE], December 1: The regional spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State, Samuel Warburg, has affirmed that negotiations on the Loss and Damage Fund...
Hamdan bin Mohammed welcomes King of Jordan as he arrives in UAE...
Dubai [UAE], December 1: His Majesty King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, arrived in Abu Dhabi today to participate in...
UAE President meets with King Charles III at COP28 in Dubai
Dubai [UAE], December 1: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan met with His Majesty King Charles III of the United Kingdom of...
1 killed as US military plane crashes off Japan's coast
Tokyo [Japan], November 30: A US military plane has crashed into waters off the coast of Japan's Yakushima Island in southern Kagoshima prefecture on Wednesday,...
Erdogan brands Netanyahu 'butcher of Gaza'
Ankara [Turkey], November 30: Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan has declared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be personally responsible for the deaths in the besieged...
Talks under way on second extension to Israel-Gaza truce
Tel Aviv [Israel], November 30: A sixth group of hostages were set to be freed by Hamas in Gaza on Wednesday as international mediators sought...
Accelerate humanitarian aid to Gaza
Tel Aviv [Israel], November 30: Yesterday morning (Vietnam time), the US announced the airlift of more than 24.5 tons of medical supplies, medicine and food...