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Teleworking in Japan shrinks after COVID, hybrid working on rise: Government survey

Teleworking in Japan shrinks after COVID, hybrid working...

Tokyo [Japan], May 12: The ratio of teleworkers in Japan continued to fall as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes while more...

Solar storm puts on brilliant light show across the globe, no serious problems reported

Solar storm puts on brilliant light show across...

Washington [DC], May 12: A powerful solar storm put on an amazing skyward light show across the globe overnight but...

Pogačar prevails in Perugia time trial at Giro D'Italia

Pogačar prevails in Perugia time trial at Giro...

Italy [Spain], May 12: The pink jersey of Tadej Pogačar is shining even brighter after the individual time trial of...

Paris Summit aims to secure commitments toward $4 billion needed to close clean cooking funding gap for Africa

Paris Summit aims to secure commitments toward $4...

Abidjan [Cote d'Ivoire], May 12: Development partners gathering in Paris on 14 May are expected to pledge towards the $4...

J20 convenes global judicial leaders to deliberate on climate change, its legal implications

J20 convenes global judicial leaders to deliberate on...

Brasilia [Brazil], May 12: The J20 Summit, overseen and coordinated by Brasil's Federal Supreme Court (STF), bought together presidents from...

Several students kidnapped as gunmen attack university in central Nigeria

Several students kidnapped as gunmen attack university in...

Abuja [Nigeria], May 11: Several students were reported missing after a group of gunmen stormed their school in Nigeria's central...

WHO warns of food-borne diseases in Kenya amid flood crisis

WHO warns of food-borne diseases in Kenya amid...

Nairobi [Kenya], May 11: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday warned of a possible surge in food-borne diseases in...

German electrical industry records sharpest order slump in 4 yrs

German electrical industry records sharpest order slump in...

Berlin [Germany], May 11: Germany's electrical and digital industry recorded its sharpest decline in incoming orders in almost four years...

Putin re-appoints Mishustin as Prime Minister

Putin re-appoints Mishustin as Prime Minister

Moscow [Russia], May 11: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a decree, re-appointing Mikhail Mishustin as the Prime Minister,...

Polish government reshuffles as EU elections draw closer

Polish government reshuffles as EU elections draw closer

Warsaw [Poland], May 11: Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday announced a partial government reshuffle, after accepting the resignations...

Death toll of bus crash in Russia's St. Petersburg rises to 7

Death toll of bus crash in Russia's St....

St. Petersburg [Russia], May 11: The number of fatalities as a result of a passenger bus falling into a river...

April 2024 marks warmest April on record: NASA

April 2024 marks warmest April on record: NASA

Los Angeles [US], May 11: April 2024 marks the warmest April on record, according to new data released by NASA...

At least 50 killed as storms, flash floods lash north Afghanistan province

At least 50 killed as storms, flash floods...

Pul-e-Khumri [Afghanistan], May 11: At least 50 people were killed as storms and flash floods lashed north Afghanistan's Baghlan province...

Cambodia warns of health hazards from smoking e-cigarettes

Cambodia warns of health hazards from smoking e-cigarettes

Phnom Penh [Cambodia], May 11: Cambodia's Ministry of Health (MoH) on Saturday called on people, especially youths, to avoid smoking...

The Biden administration is worried that Israel is violating international law with American weapons

The Biden administration is worried that Israel is...

Washington [US], May 11: The US State Department believes that weapons aid to Israel may be used inconsistently with international...

Japan is worried because UAVs secretly filmed aircraft carriers in the base

Japan is worried because UAVs secretly filmed aircraft...

Tokyo [Japan], May 11: Japanese Ministry of Defense officials said that a video of an unlicensed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)...

Iraq wants the UN mission to end its mission after 2025

Iraq wants the UN mission to end its...

Baghdad [Iraq], May 11: The Iraqi government has asked the United Nations to end the mission's mission in the country...

British commander says air drops a lifesaver

British commander says air drops a lifesaver

London [UK], May 11: Air drops through Jordan by a coalition of Western and Arab states are a lifesaver for...

Strongest solar storm in 20 years puts on a light show

Strongest solar storm in 20 years puts on...

Washington [US], May 11: The strongest solar storm in more than two decades struck Earth on Friday, triggering spectacular auroras...

UAE, Iran hold 10th meeting of Joint Consular Committee

UAE, Iran hold 10th meeting of Joint Consular...

Abu Dhabi[UAE], May 11: The UAE and Iran held the tenth meeting of the Joint Consular Committee between the two...

Train collision in Argentina injures at least 30

Train collision in Argentina injures at least 30

Buenos Aires [Argentina], May 11: At least 30 people have been injured in a collision between two trains in...

UN General Assembly backs Palestinian bid for membership

UN General Assembly backs Palestinian bid for membership

New York [US], May 11: The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid to become a...

Abdullah bin Zayed congratulates Marko Đurić, discusses UAE-Serbian cooperation, strategic partnership

Abdullah bin Zayed congratulates Marko Đurić, discusses UAE-Serbian...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], May 11: H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, congratulated Marko Đurić on...

Special Envoy of Minister of Foreign Affairs discusses enhancing bilateral relations with Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

Special Envoy of Minister of Foreign Affairs discusses...

Port of Spain [Trinidad and Tobago], May 11: Omar Shehadeh, Special Envoy of the UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs, concluded...

Macron plays political games with nuclear weapons: British peer

Macron plays political games with nuclear weapons: British...

London [UK], May 10: French President Emmanuel Macron has been accused of "playing little political games with nuclear weapons" by...

Plane skids off runway in Senegal; tyre bursts in Turkey

Plane skids off runway in Senegal; tyre bursts...

Dakar [Senegal], May 10: Two Boeing 737 passenger planes have been involved in accidents in Senegal and Turkey on takeoff...

Hot forecast of global temperature

Hot forecast of global temperature

Washington [US], May 10: Hundreds of the world's leading climate scientists predict global temperatures will increase by at least 2.5...