Cambodia attracts over 740,000 int'l tourists in first 7 months
Phnom Penh [Cambodia], August 21: Cambodia has attracted more than 740,000 international visitors in the first seven months of 2022, an increase of 560 percent...
Myanmar reports 48 new COVID-19 cases
Yangon [Myanmar], August 21: Myanmar confirmed 48 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 614,621, according to the Ministry...
36 killed, 145 injured in rain spells across Pakistan in 24 hours
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 21: At least 36 people were killed and 145 others injured in heavy monsoon rain-triggered flash floods and other rain-related incidents during...
'Facts No Longer Matter' in Trump Probe Under Politicized Justice System, Ex-FBI...
Washington (US), August 20: Whether or not former President Donald Trump is indicted over what federal agents found during a search of his home will...
Report: Iran Drops Demand in JCPOA Talks for US to Remove IRGC...
Washington (US), August 20: Iran dropped a key demand for the US to remove the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from its Foreign Terrorist Organizations...
S. Korea, U.S. voice regret over N. Korea in high-level phone talks
Seoul/ Washington (South Korea/ US), August 20: The top diplomats of South Korea and the United States held phone talks Friday and expressed regret over...
S. Korea's new COVID-19 cases fall below 130,000; death toll hits 3-month...
Seoul (South Korea), August 20: South Korea's new COVID-19 cases fell below 130,000 Saturday, but the daily number of deaths reached a three-month high amid...
S. Korean lawmakers leave for U.S. visit
Seoul (South Korea), August 20: A group of lawmakers from South Korea's rival parties departed for Washington, D.C., Saturday for a weeklong visit at the...
Aid workers face increasingly dangerous situation: UN
Geneva (Switzerland), August 20: Aid workers around the world are working in increasingly dangerous and unstable situations and are being killed, injured, kidnapped and harassed...
IAEA says consulting on sending mission to Zaporizhzhia plant soon
Vienna (Austria), August 20: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Friday that it is actively consulting with all parties on sending a mission...
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,...