December2023

Former Sierra Leone president Ernest Bai Koroma has been confined to his home, the government said Saturday, after he was questioned over what it calls an attempted coup at the end of November. The office of...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi will begin a new hunger strike from her prison cell in Iran as the prize is awarded in Oslo on Sunday, her family said Saturday. Mohammadi, who has campaigned against...

According to the mission, a barrage of rockets was fired early on Friday toward the US embassy located in the tightly guarded Green Zone of Baghdad. This was not the first time that such attacks had...

A draft resolution was presented by over a dozen World Health Organization member nations on Friday, urging Israel to uphold its legal commitments to protect humanitarian workers in Gaza. Following an attack on southern Israel by...

Diplomatic missions of 13 Western countries and the European Commission in Dhaka showed their firm commitment to Universal Declaration of Human Rights (HR) marking International Human Rights Day being observed today. “Our commitment to the principles...

Canadian firm First Quantum Minerals said Friday it was laying off more than 4,000 workers after a court prohibited it from operating the largest open-air copper mine in Central America. The company’s Panamanian subsidiary said in...

Chinese exports rose in November for the first time in seven months, officials said Thursday, as the country navigates a troubled recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. Overseas shipments edged up 0.5 percent on-year to $291 billion,...

Asian markets fluctuated Friday as traders tried to track a Wall Street rally ahead of crucial US jobs data, while Tokyo took a hit from an extended yen rally on bets Japan will drop its ultra-loose...

Japan’s economy contracted by 0.7 percent in the third quarter, government figures showed Friday, revising a preliminary estimate that it shrank 0.5 percent. The drop, which followed two straight quarters of growth, came on the back...

Some of the world’s richest countries experienced sharp rises in child poverty between 2014 and 2021, according to data published today by UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight. Report Card 18: Child Poverty...