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Climate finance pledges a cause for optimism: Secretary of Finance of the Philippines

Climate finance pledges a cause for optimism: Secretary...

Dubai [UAE], December 4: Benjamin Diokn, Secretary of Finance of the Philippines, underscored the significance of COP28 to the world...

180 stranded university students rescued from hiking destination in Sri Lanka

180 stranded university students rescued from hiking destination...

Colombo [Sri Lanka], December 3: Sri Lanka's army and police have rescued about 180 university students who were stranded in...

Heavy snowfall wreaks chaos in southern Germany

Heavy snowfall wreaks chaos in southern Germany

Munich [Germany], December 3: Heavy overnight snowfall paralysed transport connections in the southern German state of Bavaria on Saturday morning,...

20 countries to triple nuclear energy as part of climate action

20 countries to triple nuclear energy as part...

Dubai [UAE], December 3: Some 20 countries plan to significantly increase energy production from nuclear power for the benefit of...

UN Security Council ends Sudan mission

UN Security Council ends Sudan mission

New York [US], December 3: The UN Security Council has voted in favour of ending its political mission in the...

Peru environmentalist who fought for Amazon shot dead

Peru environmentalist who fought for Amazon shot dead

Washington [US], December 3: A Peruvian environmental activist has been shot dead after receiving death threats for his battle to...

US lawmaker Santos expelled from Congress following fraud, money laundering charges

US lawmaker Santos expelled from Congress following fraud,...

Washington [US], December 3: US representative George Santos, the New York Republican under felony indictment in connection with fraud, money...

Jailed ex-PM Khan's party elects new head

Jailed ex-PM Khan's party elects new head

Islamabad [Pakistan], December 3: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, currently in jail facing what he says are more than...

One dead, two injured after man attacks tourists near Paris' Eiffel Tower

One dead, two injured after man attacks tourists...

Paris [France], December 3: One person died and two others were injured after a man attacked tourists in central Paris...

Russians ease attacks in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv still may hold Maryinka

Russians ease attacks in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv still...

Moscow [Russia], December 3: Russian forces eased attacks on the beleaguered eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka and unofficial reports from...

Strong quake in Philippines triggers tsunami warnings and evacuations

Strong quake in Philippines triggers tsunami warnings and...

Manila [Philippines], December 3: Evacuations were under way in the Philippines after a quake of at least magnitude 7.5 struck...

Munich flights, trains cancelled as heavy snow blankets Bavaria

Munich flights, trains cancelled as heavy snow blankets...

Munich [Germany], December 3: Heavy snowfall in Bavaria prompted an all-day cancellation of flights and long-distance trains out of Munich,...

US lays out plan at COP 28 to slash greenhouse gas methane from oil and gas

US lays out plan at COP 28 to...

Washington [US], December 3: The Biden administration on Saturday unveiled final rules aimed at cracking down on U.S. oil and...

North Korea began operating spy satellites after warning the US

North Korea began operating spy satellites after warning...

Seoul [South Korea], December 3: KCNA news agency reported today, December 3, that the North Korean reconnaissance satellite operating office...

'Samurai weapon' causes fever in Japan after video of chasing robbers

'Samurai weapon' causes fever in Japan after video...

Tokyo [Japan], December 3: In the video, employees of a jewelry store in Tokyo used a device called a "sasumata"...

Bombing at a university in the Philippines, 3 people died

Bombing at a university in the Philippines, 3...

Manila [Philippines], December 3: Police said three people were killed and nine injured when an explosion occurred at a university...

Philippines lifts tsunami warning after strong earthquake

Philippines lifts tsunami warning after strong earthquake

Manila [Philippines], December 3: The Philippines lifted its tsunami warning early on December 3, after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck...

Mr. Trump launched a new attack

Mr. Trump launched a new attack

Washington [US], December 3: Former US President Donald Trump on December 2 called on his supporters to "enter" Philadelphia and...

Israel bombards southern Gaza as residents fear new ground offensive

Israel bombards southern Gaza as residents fear new...

Tel Aviv [Israel], December 3: Israeli war planes and artillery bombarded the south of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, hitting...

France: 1 dead, 2 injured in central Paris attack

France: 1 dead, 2 injured in central Paris...

Paris [France], December 3: French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said late on Saturday that a German tourist had been killed...

Israel-Hamas war: Netanyahu pulls negotiators from Qatar

Israel-Hamas war: Netanyahu pulls negotiators from Qatar

Tel Aviv [Israel], December 3: Israel said on Saturday that it has reached a "dead end" in negotiations in Qatar...

Death toll from cholera outbreak in Ethiopia surpasses 400: WHO

Death toll from cholera outbreak in Ethiopia surpasses...

Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], December 2: An ongoing cholera outbreak in Ethiopia has claimed more than 400 lives so far, the...

Nigeria launches strategic plan toward ending HIV/AIDS epidemic

Nigeria launches strategic plan toward ending HIV/AIDS epidemic

Abuja [Nigeria], December 2: The Nigerian government on Friday launched a comprehensive national strategic plan to end the HIV and...

Somalia flooding kills 100: UN agency

Somalia flooding kills 100: UN agency

United Nations, December 2: Flooding caused by heavy rains has killed almost 100 people and left some 750,000 people...

Slovak city Kosice declares state of crisis due to deficit

Slovak city Kosice declares state of crisis due...

Bratislava [Slovakia], December 2: Kosice, the second largest city in Slovakia, declared a state of crisis on Friday due to...

Ukraine plans to produce 100-km-range air defense systems

Ukraine plans to produce 100-km-range air defense systems

Kyiv [Ukraine], December 2: Ukraine has set out plans to produce air defense systems capable of intercepting aerial threats at...

NASA's Webb space telescope reveals rocky planets can form in extreme environments

NASA's Webb space telescope reveals rocky planets can...

Los Angeles [US], December 2: An international team of astronomers has used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to provide the...