NEW DELHI: Urbanisation had contributed to continental-scale warming in recent decades, particularly in Asia where cities have expanded significantly, a new study has revealed....
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden is planning to make another Patriot air defence system available to Ukraine to fend off Russian aerial attacks, the...
SINGAPORE: Pollution from man-made emissions and other sources like wildfires have been linked to around 135 million premature deaths worldwide between 1980 and 2020,...
UNITED NATIONS: More than half of Gaza's buildings have been destroyed by the Israelis since it unleashed its brutal war machine against Gazans over...
DOHA: Several countries and international organisations have condemned the Israeli killing of at least 274 Palestinians during an operation to free four Israeli captives...
BEIRUT: A senior official of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says any ceasefire deal with Israel must be permanent and force the regime out...
TEHRAN: Iran's Interior Ministry has released the final list of six approved candidates for the 14th presidential election, which is set to take place...
MOSCOW: Russia has put former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on its wanted list, Russian state media reported, citing the Interior Ministry's database.
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NEW DELHI: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that NATO has no plans to deploy forces to Ukraine.
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JERUSALEM: Overnight Israeli airstrikes in central Gaza killed at least 18 people, including children, a day after 33 were killed at a United Nations-run...
HOUSTON: NASA's Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams and her colleague Butch Wilmore have successfully docked Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) after...
CANBERRA: Congratulatory messages continued to pour in for Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his electoral victory, with leaders around the world, including from Australia,...
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that would immediately turn down requests for entry into the country by asylum-seekers crossing...
GENEVA: The UN weather agency on Wednesday predicted that there's an 80% chance that average global temperatures will surpass the 1.5 Celsius-degree (2.7 degree-Fahrenheit)...
ROME: Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies "fully endorse and will stand behind the comprehensive" ceasefire and hostage release deal for...