December2023

Russia will stand with Dhaka against possible US or any Western sanction against Bangladesh, Russian Ambassador in Dhaka Alexander Mantytskiy said today. “We are against of any illegal actions here (Bangladesh). We will be against of...

As meat consumption rises, livestock will continue to have an increasing impact on greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for 12% of human-caused emissions, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization warned on Friday. In a report, the Rome-based...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday urged Israel to do more to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and to protect civilians in the Palestinian territory, in a call with Israeli Foreign Minister...

The UN Security Council meets on Gaza Friday under acute pressure from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and will vote on urging an immediate ceasefire after weeks of ruinous war. Even though the civilian death toll in the...

Several Russian missiles hit the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, wounding one person and damaging residential buildings, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday night. “The occupiers hit Kharkiv six times,” the head of the regional military administration,...

A retired US police commander who took part in the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol was given a sentence of more than 11 years in jail on Thursday in Washington. In July, Alan...

The Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, one of the leaders of a young generation of authors in Gaza who chose to write in English to tell their stories, was killed in an Israeli strike, his friends said...

Bitsmedia, the creator of the widely popular Muslim lifestyle application (app), Muslim Pro, has successfully secured $20 million USD in its Series A funding round. Gobi Partners, an Asian-focused venture capital firm, joined existing investors –...

Novo Nordisk today announced the investment of more than 16 billion Danish kroner (2.1 billion euros) starting in 20231 to expand the existing production site in Chartres, France, for the current and future product portfolio within...

Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is horrified by the killing of two MSF doctors, Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila and Dr Ahmad Al Sahar, and a third doctor working with Al Awda, Dr. Ziad Al-Tatari, following...