Most food crises are ‘largely manufactured’, charity says in new report published on World Food Day
LONDON: Hunger caused by conflicts around the world has...
BEIRUT: Israel has resumed air strikes on Beirut despite objections from the United States over the way it is conducting its campaign in Lebanon.
Israeli...
OTTAWA: Amid the India-Canada diplomatic row, an Ontario-based organisation has said that it is "crucial" that both nations engage in open dialogue and work...
UNICEF, WFP call for support for hundreds of thousands displaced by fighting; women and children bearing brunt
BEIRUT: United Nations agencies have called for an...
ALGIERS: President Droupadi Murmu has called for deeper economic cooperation between India and Algeria, underlining the African nation's rapid growth and expanding economy offer...
CAPE CANAVERAL: A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter's tantalising moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean...
DUBAI: Iran is reportedly grappling with a significant wave of cyberattacks targeting government agencies and critical infrastructure. The cyberattacks, which are said to have...
BEIRUT: Hezbollah said on Sunday it was fighting Israeli forces trying to infiltrate Ramiya village in southern Lebanon, as a third U.N. peacekeeper was...
WASHINGTON: The Middle East remains on high alert for further escalation, awaiting Israel's response to an Iranian missile barrage on Oct. 1, which was...
UNITED NATIONS: India has backed a joint statement by the UNIFIL-contributing countries that "strongly condemned" the recent attacks on the UN peacekeeping force in...
Clears them of collaborating with US
TEHRAN: An Iranian court cleared two jailed journalists of collaborating with the United States, and reduced their sentences over...
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM: Israeli forces fired at a watchtower used by UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Friday, injuring two, a UN source said, the third...
WASHINGTON: Legendary music composer A R Rahman has recorded a 30-minute performance video in support of Vice President Kamaal Harris, which is expected to...
NEW DELHI: A UN peacekeeping base in Lebanon came under fire from Israeli forces but Indian peacekeepers there are reported safe.
However, two Indonesian peacekeepers...
VIENTIANE (LAOS): Noting that the most negatively affected countries due to ongoing conflicts in various parts of the world are those from the Global...
NEW DELHI: Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday,...
ANKARA: Turkey has imposed anti-dumping duties on some steel imports from China, Russia, India and Japan, according to a decision published in the Official...
NEW DELHI: The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), along with the National Regulatory Authority of India (NRA) and affiliated institutions, has been found...
WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a “total killer” with the nation’s adversaries and turned down offers of help when India faced threats, former...
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden held a “direct,” 30-minute phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, their first conversation in almost two...
STOCKHOLM: South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and...
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s 18-year-old Nima Rinji Sherpa has become the youngest climber ever to scale each of the 14 tallest mountains (over 8,000 metres) in...
KATHMANDU: A total of 712 climbers have received permission to climb 29 mountains in Nepal during the fall climbing season.
The climbers are from 62...
TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that the country’s forces have successfully targeted and eliminated potential successors to the recently deceased Hezbollah...