UN chief urges more in-depth examination of causes of hate
United Nations, August 20: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called on the international community to do more to examine the conditions that drive hate.
NASA unveils landing sites for manned Moon mission
Los Angeles (US), August 20: NASA announced Friday that it has selected 13 possible regions at the South Pole of the Moon as potential future...
Philippine president to visit Indonesia, Singapore in first overseas trips after taking...
Manila (Philippine), August 20: Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos is scheduled to visit Indonesia and Singapore next month in his first overseas trips since taking...
Monkeypox test kit unveiled in India
New Delhi [India], August 20: India's first indigenously developed RT-PCR kit for testing Monkeypox was launched in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, local daily...
Canada approves 1st COVID-19 booster for kids 5-11
Ottawa (Canada), August 20: Canada's drug regulator announced Friday it has authorized Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine for use as a booster dose in children aged...
COVID-19 infection risk in Germany remains high despite falling cases
Berlin (Germany), August 20: The number of daily COVID-19 infections in Germany continues to fall, but the infection risk remains high, the country's Robert Koch...
U.S. admits COVID-19 response mistakes, but repeats them over monkeypox: NBC
New York (US), August 20: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky has conceded that her agency "did not reliably...
Denmark opens Rwanda office as part of new asylum center plan
Copenhagen (Denmark), August 19: The Danish government announced on Thursday the opening of a project office in Rwanda's capital Kigali, as part of the Nordic...
Ukrainian, Turkish presidents meet on cooperation, grain exports
Kiev [Ukraine], August 19: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday met with visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss bilateral cooperation and the exports...
Top German court upholds mandatory measles vaccination for children
Berlin [Germany], August 19: Germany's compulsory measles vaccination for children in day-care centers and schools will remain in force, the country's Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG)...
Drought threatens Romania's agricultural production
Bucharest [Romania], August 19: Persisting drought threatens to reduce agricultural production in most of Romania's counties this year as thirsty cropland is expanding in...
Italy's COVID-19 infections rise again
Rome [Italy], August 19: Italy's coronavirus infection rate is on the rise again, reversing a month of declines to climb by 14.4 percent over the...
U.S. CDC acknowledges falling short in response to COVID-19
Los Angeles [US], August 19: The chief of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday acknowledged that the agency fell short...
Oil prices rally for second day
New York [US], August 19: Oil prices rose on Thursday, extending the gains they had scored in the prior session.
U.S. San Francisco faces surging hate crimes against AAPI community
San Francisco [US], August 19: Officials and Asian communities in San Francisco, in the western U.S. state of California, addressed the surging hate crimes against...
Canada's wheat price falls 20 pct in July
Ottawa [Canada], August 19: The price of wheat in Canada fell 20.4 percent in July, Statistics Canada said Thursday.
2 planes collide in U.S. airport, multiple fatalities feared
San Francisco [US], August 19: Multiple people have been reportedly killed after two planes collided while attempting to land in Watsonville, U.S. State of California,...
Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran agree to simplify international freight traffic regime
Tashkent [Uzbekistan], August 19: Uzbekistan has agreed with Iran and Turkmenistan to simplify the regime of international freight traffic to Turkish and Iranian seaports, the...
Japan logs record high 255,534 daily COVID-19 cases
Tokyo [Japan], August 19: Japan logged a record daily high of 255,534 new COVID-19 cases Thursday as the country feared a strain on the medical...
Cambodia to host 54th ASEAN economic ministers' meeting, related meetings in mid-September
Phnom Penh [Cambodia], August 19: Cambodia will host the 54th ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Economic Ministers' meeting (54th AEM) and related...
Philippines logs 3,758 new COVID-19 cases, 48 deaths
Manila [Philippines], August 19: The Philippines reported 3,758 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to...
Myanmar reports 31 new COVID-19 cases
Yangon [Myanmar], August 19: Myanmar confirmed 31 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 614,541, according to the Ministry...
CPEC brings era of green development to Pakistan under BRI: officials
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 19: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has brought an era of green development through green projects for future generations to have a...
Malaysia's vehicle sales down 23 pct month on month in July
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], August 19: Malaysia's vehicle sales slipped 23.03 percent to 48,922 units in July from 63,563 units in June, the Malaysian Automotive Association...
Lebanon never accepts permanent settlement of displaced Syrians: president
Beirut [Lebanon], August 18: Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Wednesday that Lebanon will never accept the permanent settlement of displaced Syrians inside the country...
Iraqi leaders call for dialogue to solve political deadlock
Baghdad [Iraq], August 18: Iraq's top officials and political leaders on Wednesday called on loyalists to prominent Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to engage in a...
Turkish president, Israeli PM hold phone talk over decision to reinstate envoys
Ankara [Turkey], August 18: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid had a phone conversation on Wednesday after the two countries...