Germany at risk of missing climate targets after 2040, finds report

Berlin [Germany], July 23: Germany is at risk of missing its climate targets from 2040 onwards, according to the German government's latest climate protection report.

Rains, flash floods kill 21 in Pakistan

Islamabad [Pakistan], July 23: Flash floods and landslides have killed at least 21 people in 24 hours across Pakistan, taking the total death toll in...

US to pull out of UNESCO as membership 'not in national interest'

Olympia [Washington], July 23: The United States will withdraw from UNESCO by the end of 2026, the government said on Tuesday, only two years after...

Up to 500 miners buried by landslides in eastern Congo

Kinshasa [Democratic Republic of the Congo], July 23: Up to 500 miners are believed to be trapped in eastern Congo following a series of landslides,...

Al-Azhar issues global appeal for urgent action to save Gazans from deadly...

Cairo [Egypt], July 23: Al-Azhar Al-Sharif has issued a global appeal for urgent and immediate action to rescue the people of Gaza from what it...

US Special Envoy to visit Middle East to finalise Gaza aid corridor

Olympia [Washington], July 23: The United States announced on Tuesday that it is working to finalise the establishment of a humanitarian aid corridor into the...

Major wildfire in Greece prompts evacuation of several villages

Athens [Greece], July 23: A major wildfire broke out on Tuesday in Greece, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of several villages near Corinth, west...

UN staff in Gaza suffering from hunger, says UNRWA

Gaza City [Gaza], July 23: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has revealed that UN staff...

Tropical Storm Wipha makes landfall in Vietnam; heavy rains persist in Philippines

Hanoi [Vietnam], July 23: Tropical storm Wipha weakened after making landfall in northern Vietnam on Tuesday, with authorities on alert due to heavy rains that...

Trump accuses Obama of treason in escalating attacks over 2016 Russia probe

Washington DC [US], July 23: U.S. President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of "treason" on Tuesday, accusing him, without providing evidence, of leading...

WHO says staff residence in Gaza was attacked

Geneva [Switzerland], July 22: The World Health Organization said that its staff residence and main warehouse in Gazan city of Deir al-Balah was attacked thrice...

Harvard battles Trump administration in court over canceled funding

New York [US], July 22: Harvard University urged a federal judge on Monday to order U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to restore about $2.5 billion...

Trump's funding cut stalls water projects, increasing risks for millions

New York [US], July 22: The Trump administration's decision to slash nearly all U.S. foreign aid has left dozens of water and sanitation projects half-finished...

LGBTQI+ network slams Vanuatu's proposed gender law

Port Vila [Vanuatu], July 22: The Pacific Sexual and Gender Diversity Network has condemned Vanuatu's move to change its Constitution to legally recognise only two...

Israel sends tanks into Gaza's Deir al-Balah, hostage families concerned

Gaza [Palestine], July 22: Israeli tanks pushed into southern and eastern districts of the Gazan city of Deir al-Balah for the first time on Monday,...

Paris prosecutors: We asked X for algorithm info, not private data

Paris [France], July 22: Paris prosecutors requested information from social media platform X about its algorithm as part of a probe into organised gangs' possible...

The Cause Behind America's Summer Flash Floods

New York [US], July 22: Fossil fuel pollution and other impacts are turning the summer months into a time of successive heat waves, wildfires and...

'Undercurrent' in Trump's supporters

New York [US], July 22: According to NBC News on July 21, researchers discovered a network of more than 400 fake accounts on social network...

Casualties rise in Gaza, Israel strikes Yemen

Gaza [Palestine], July 22: Eighty people were killed in the north, along with nine in Rafah and four in Khan Younis in the south.

US releases files on Martin Luther King's assassination

New York [US], July 22: The US Department of Justice has released more than 240,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of Martin...

Syria evacuates Bedouins from Suwayda

Damascus [Syria], July 22: The Syrian government is evacuating hundreds of Bedouin families trapped inside the southern city of Suwayda, where a fragile ceasefire is...

At least 49 killed in Gaza attacks as Israel sends tanks into...

Gaza [Palestine], July 22: At least 49 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, medical sources say, as the Israeli military has sent...

Victims' families criticise report blaming pilot error for Jeju Air crash

Seoul [South Korea], July 22: An investigation into South Korea's deadliest air disaster has found that a pilot mistakenly shut off the wrong engine, local...

18 dead in S Korea after heavy rains, landslides

Seoul [South Korea], July 22: At least 18 people have died and another nine are missing after days of heavy rains and landslides in South...

Belgian police question Israelis over alleged Gaza war crimes

Brussels [Belgium], July 22: Belgian authorities have interrogated two members of the Israeli military following allegations of serious breaches of international humanitarian law committed in...

20 dead as B'desh military jet crashes into Dhaka school

Dhaka [Bangladesh], July 22: The death toll from the crash of a Bangladesh Air Force training jet onto a school in Dhaka has risen to...

Ecuador's biggest drug lord 'Fito' extradited to US

Quito [Ecuador], July 22: The Ecuadoran government on Sunday extradited notorious drug trafficker Adolfo Macias, alias "Fito," to the United States, a month after he...