Category: World

WASHINGTON: There has been “significant progress” in efforts to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah, but more work remains before a pact can

GAZA CITY: Palestinian authorities warned on Monday of a potential outbreak of epidemics and diseases among displaced civilians in Gaza City due to overcrowding in

TBILISI: Georgia’s new parliament convened for its first session Monday amid protests over an election the opposition says was rigged and after the pro-European president

BUSAN (South Korea): A final round of talks on a treaty to curb plastic pollution opened on Monday, with deep differences between nations emerging almost

BASEL (Switzerland): Basel voters on Sunday overwhelmingly approved the city putting up nearly $40 million towards hosting next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, meaning the giant

MONTEVIDEO: Left-wing politician Yamandu Orsi was elected president of Uruguay, official results showed on Sunday, in a rebuke by voters of five years of conservative

MANILA: Raging orange flames and thick black smoke billowed into the sky Sunday as fire ripped through hundreds of houses in a closely built slum

DAVIS (United States): A scientist guides a long tube into the mouth and down to the stomach of Thing 1, a two-month-old calf that is

PARIS: Tens of thousands demonstrated in major French cities Saturday against violence targeting women, as campaigners push for the country to learn from a mass

SIEM REAP (Cambodia): Survivors and sniffing dogs joined hundreds of people at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat on Sunday for a march against landmines after the US